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While the first part of your assertion is almost certainly true, I don't agree with the second part. The name explains what it is. A hipster is a person who's c

• thekingofspain 12y ago
  I mean, that SOUNDS reasonable, but I can guarantee that that's not the definition that most people operate by. Which in turn seems to support the idea that the name is meaningless.
• azinman2 12y ago
  That's so inexact I still don't know if I should bother continuing this reply. So would a popular 8 year old who is into Paris Hilton be called a hipster? Is each of the real housewives a 'hipster'? The term originated in the 40s in a very specific subculture, and of recent years has re-emerged with a new subculture that particularly originated out of New York. Wikipedia does an ok job [1] but obviously like any actual subculture entire books are written on it and even still won't fully capture the meaning the same as being integrated into it socially and authentically. Hipsters themselves wouldn't consider themselves seeking to be hip -- that's something that an outside person such as yourself is labeling. In fact the hipster subculture is anathema against 'trying' to be 'anything.' I'm remarking that at this point the term blends beyond the actual subculture so much that this random physics paper is using it to describe anything that isn't mainstream, as if hipster is the only subculture that exists outside of mainstream. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(contemporary_subculture) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_(contemporary_subcultur...