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Happily Hippie: Meet a Modern Ethnicity rethinks ?hippies.? Hippiedom didn?t die; rather, as with other outgroups, it became socially invisible. Happily Hippie argues that the Counterculture is a 50-year-old ethnicity and explains Hippiedom?s ethnogenesis. We?ll learn how anti-Hippie demagoguery has warped American politics, how the War on Drugs is largely about persecuting Hippie-America and how today?s legalization movement is really about Hippie-America fighting for social equality. Happily Hippie documents the Counterculture?s many accomplishments, including inventing the Personal Computer; it estimates over 30 million Hippie-Americans and shows readers crude demographic maps of Hippie-America. We look at Hippies in philanthropy, Hollywood, sports, various arts, new medicine, the natural-foods industry, the Green movement and around the globe. We?ll see how stereotypes of Hippies echo those of other minorities, explore Hippie self-esteem issues, look at Hippie generational transfer and do some fun media analysis. We?ll also consider the need for a Hippie-American Ethnic Organization and how we might begin one. If you?re Hippie, if you?ve ever been Hippie, read this book. It will change your head; it can change this world.