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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://thoughtcatalog.com/j-ross-bianchi/2013/10/all-the-hipsters-are-dead/

Please stop calling these people hipsters.  Just because someone lives in the city, has a trendy name and wears glasses doesn't mean they are a hipster.

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About the link, I can't quite get a handle on where the writer is coming from...He seems to be saying there are a group of people (hipsters) who have decided to go all-in with being a hipster (like in the 1960s, young people actually might have been proud to call themselves Hippies); and that those people don't have the right to call themselves hipsters because all the TRUE hipsters are dead. Like they're all phonies and posers. Am I reading that right? Yet, you seem to be saying it upsets you to be labeled as a hipster because you live in the city with a trendy name and glasses (or your friends do, whatever), that maybe you are all of those things you're offended by being called hipster. I'm confused.

I have to wonder if hipsters actually would EVER identify themselves as hipsters (whereas when I was in school, people proudly labeled themselves as preps, jocks, punks, goths...). The writer of this article seems to think people wear the hipster label willingly, or that people would like to aspire to be hipsters, whereas I believe that nobody would actually appreciate being called a hipster because it means they're just like everybody else in a particular group when really, they'd like to think they're unique. [/quote]

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