Hippies In 1960s

In the 1960s, there was a change in people’s belief and their rights, and they were known as the hippies. Today, a similar change is occurring that is changing people’s belief, and that is the issue of the LGBT.
In the 1960s, many Americans, especially younger ones, experience a change in attitude and how to express life. Both men and women began to wear long flowing clothes, beads, and headbands and often put flowers in their hair, which gave them the nickname “flower children”, or hippies. These young Americans left traditions behind and lived in large communes in which everyone took a certain responsibility. Some even went as far as just roaming the road and feeding themselves whatever they could find. Today, some people are leaving normal traditions and are becoming gay, transgender, or bisexual. They leave the normal relationship of dating the opposite gender with dating people of the same gender or dating both types of gender. They also would change their gender to the opposite one if they chose to do so. This lead to legal problems and is a major issue today. The hippies were a strong supporter of pacifism but usually did not join the protests. The gays and transgender of today commonly protest for their legal rights that some deny to them. Both groups are not
Some people began to practice religions such as Buddhism and Hinduism, both were which rare in the United States. Today, one religion has a high chance of being persecuted, and that one is Islamic. Many people are afraid of Muslims, and President Trump put a travel ban on high-Muslim population countries. During the 1960s, people began to use drugs in the belief that it could expand one's mind. This may have spurred today’s drug war against opioids, an extremely addictive drug. Another change was that students were dropping out of school, thinking that formal education is useless. Today, many states have set the minimum age for dropout of