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What's the main difference between a Hipster and a Yuppie? Besides the generational gap?
Take a look at the "guide" you posted...assuming you're already familiar with what a yuppie is (or is said to be), then the stereotypical differences should soon be clear. A yuppie (which, incidentally, is a term I don't hear used all that much anymore..."bourgeois" seems to have made a slight comeback for describing people who might also be called yuppies...might have to replace "yuppie" in the lexicon with "Yelpie", given the typical tendencies of the people who habitually use Yelp) is primarily concerned with attaining prestige and status, climbing the social ladder (thus situating himself squarely within the mainstream), while a hipster would consider himself altogether outside of the norm, "above" the mainstream in many/most hipster cases. (These are rough descriptions made all the rougher by the fact that I'm fairly certain many people you or I might refer to as a yuppie or a hipster would resist the classification).
Put it this way: a "yuppie" is a "frat boy" or sorority girl post-graduation...or at least 100x more likely to have once been one than a hipster is. Both groups are often derided for their vanity, but the hipster would at least make an effort to adopt a veneer of social consciousness, which might amount to nothing more than "Facebook activism"--ie, sanctimoniously sharing some Kony-style, "upworthy"-type cause on social media while never actually doing anything about it in reality.
So yeah, I read your article and found it pretty entertaining, as much for the idea of the fact that a seemingly earnest "how to be a hipster" guide exists as for the actual content (because I personally think the idea of creating a how-to guide for adopting a potentially radically different persona is kind of amusingly pathetic, but maybe, if nothing else, it'll help promote a little "hipster tolerance").
I have some hipster tendencies myself, as defined by this guide, anyway. Mostly the propensity to read books (which, although reading is in decline particularly in my age group (I'm 27), I don't think is an activity that "hipsters" can lay any special claim to), some of my taste in music, my sense of irony, and I guess my fashion by default. I've never been referred to as one, nor have I ever thought of myself as one. I think of myself as an individual. This past winter, an old friend told me she thought I would like it in Portland and/or Brooklyn, which I suppose might be considered an indirect way of calling someone a hipster, given that those two places have the reputation of being the hipster meccas of this country. It must be said that this person did/does not have the best track record for these sorts of assessments (although in this particular case she might be correct...I've been interested in Portland for a few years).
Hope some part of that answers your question, hah.
I really just posted the article because of the long-winded, instructional nature of it was so very anti-hipster, it IMHO is hilarious. It's so unlike them to want a website like this, and yet here it is... welcome to the mainstream kids...
I really just posted the article because of the long-winded, instructional nature of it was so very anti-hipster, it IMHO is hilarious. It's so unlike them to want a website like this, and yet here it is... welcome to the mainstream kids...
Haha, correct, sir. I wasn't quite sure how to interpret the posts.
Lmao the irony in that "article" or whatever one should call it is astounding. And hilarious.
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