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Are You A Hipster? | Idea Channel | PBS

We all hate hipsters, right? They seem so smug and arrogant, with their ray bans and scarves and ironic t-shirts. Even those who CLEARLY ARE hipsters still recoil at the label. Embracing irony over earnestness, the key to hipsters is not just what they enjoy, but how they enjoy it. Borrowing from other subcultures, (see: Handlebar mustaches and flannel shirts), hipsters reappropriate these fashion elements as their own. But don’t we all do that? Our own fashion came from SOMEWHERE, and certainly has been refined. Do we all have a little bit of hipster blood in us?


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    Yes, we all appropriate. The biggest difference, as mentioned above, is that we do it enthusiastically, because we enjoy...
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    Everyone’s a little hipster… Great video on “hipster-dom” and cultural capital in the digital age
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    Yeap, probably a little maybe that’s why I love fixed gears and tattoos.
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    I’ve said it before...I’ll say it again: Hipster is a pejorative people use to call out in...
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    All of Us. Culture Capital in the Digital Age.
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