Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
1. What is your opinion of the Hipster's culture in NYC?
Moderator cut: Not topics for the NYC forum
Last edited by bmwguydc; 12-14-2009 at 10:15 PM..
Reason: Please confine discussions to the proper forum. For a broad comparison, that's a thread for General US, not NYC. Thanks.
Hipsters generally don't do hard core drugs. They drink a lot, and may smoke pot, but few do heroin.
Grunge was about the disaffected children of the middle-class. It was a "check-out" movement. Hipsters are about the well-connected children of the upper-middle-class. It's a "check-in" movement: what's in, what's hip, what's now. I don't think there's much of a connection, beyond superficial aesthetics.
Hipsterdom is about embracing all of the advantages one is born with, like access to an elite and expensive education (at a place like Bard or Bowdoin). It's about being beautiful and clever with other people who are beautiful and clever. They may rail against commercialism, but it's because they come from an affluent background; they've been there, done that.
While I think the above is correct in a narrow sense, by now the word "hipster" has been thrown around so much that it's pretty much meaningless, if indeed it ever meant anything. While people do tend to associate hipsters with physically attractive, fashionable, upper-middle-class types, I've heard the word applied to pretty much any young, educated, urban person with a creative or cultural bent. I write for a living and listen to indie rock - does that make me a hipster? Some would say "yes." I also went to an inexpensive public college, come from a blue-collar family, and dress rather blandly - am I still a hipster? Probably not, but who knows. Most people, in New York and elsewhere, defy labels.
This all seems a bit of...what's the word..ahh yes...stereotyping an entire group. I suspect if we took a group of 100 people we agreed were "Hipsters", we would find many to be non-white, and non-wealthy. Why are we trying to classify this group (wrongly as usual)? Have we not done enough damage stereotyping every other group? Hipsters are a bunch of kids doing what kids do...it only seems strange/different because it isn't us! I say leave them alone...they are not causing the "demise" of NYC, they are not out to evict "innocent" people of color, nor are they asking to be understood/studied/categorized. They are people like you and me who want somewhere to live, enjoy other like minded people, and are trying to live their lives they way they want to. The end.
This all seems a bit of...what's the word..ahh yes...stereotyping an entire group. I suspect if we took a group of 100 people we agreed were "Hipsters", we would find many to be non-white, and non-wealthy. Why are we trying to classify this group (wrongly as usual)? Have we not done enough damage stereotyping every other group? Hipsters are a bunch of kids doing what kids do...it only seems strange/different because it isn't us! I say leave them alone...they are not causing the "demise" of NYC, they are not out to evict "innocent" people of color, nor are they asking to be understood/studied/categorized. They are people like you and me who want somewhere to live, enjoy other like minded people, and are trying to live their lives they way they want to. The end.
Ahh... hipsters. They've inspired a fashion craze that plagues magazines like Vice and Nylon that I like to call "Homeless Couture".
Hipsters are like Gutter Punks were in the 90s, spoiled suburban middle class of all races. Some smell worse than others, and the ones that don't smell too bad are alright.
sure it does. throw on one of these hats, a scarf and give him a pabst and you've got the complete package
Mod cut: copyright violations
Last edited by Viralmd; 12-31-2009 at 02:21 PM..
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
