How to Be a Zippie
Define the zippie as a sub-culture (see below for alternative definitions) that indicates a person who may live on a low budget (spend zip), dress informally or casually or even inappropriately in the traditional sense., Consider zipping-costs (to...
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Define the zippie as a sub-culture (see below for alternative definitions) that indicates a person who may live on a low budget (spend zip)
If you have the suburban or nice apartment dream or ambitions to be a traditional business person or manager, then this is probably for someone else, another person.
Zippies received media exposure during the American 1972 Democratic and Republican National Conventions in Miami Beach, Florida, when the term was worn on t-shirts by counter-culture activists and groups working to end US involvement in the Vietnam War. , Eat fancy restaurant leftovers for free
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Step 2: dress informally or casually or even inappropriately in the traditional sense.
They are found as various youths who have taken up the term and may differ from the earlier groupings.
They may interact with other "Zippie tribes" from across the planet and communicate, or just do their own versions as a group or individual life style. , Be an informal computer-geek or technician (in techie culture).Wikipedia:
Yuppie: , "There's a new and rapidly spreading cultural virus ripping through the British Isles.
The symptoms of those infected include attacks of optimism, strong feelings of community and lowered stress levels.
Will their gathering in August at the Grand Canyon be the Woodstock of the '90s?"This is also revealed in the magazine Encyclopedia Psychedelica (EPi), that identified them as "Hippies with zip." EPi says, a zippie is "someone who has balanced their hemispheres to achieve a fusion of the technological and the spiritual.
The techno-person understands that rationality, organization, long-term planning, consistency and single-mindedness are necessary to achieve anything solid on the material level.
The hippie understands that vision, individuality, spontaneity, flexibility and open-mindedness are crucial to realize anything on the spiritual scale."
They called zippies "Liberalization's Children," and defines one of that subculture as "a young city or suburban resident, between 15 and 25 years of age, with a zip in the stride.
Belongs to generation Z.
Can be male or female, studying or working.
Oozes attitude, ambition and aspiration.
Cool, confident and creative.
Seeks challenges, loves risks and shuns fears." Indian zippies carry no guilt about making money or spending it.
They are, says one Indian analyst quoted by Outlook, "destination driven, not destiny driven; outward, not inward, looking; upwardly mobile, not stuck-in-my-station-in-life."
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Step 3: Consider zipping-costs (to pay zip
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Step 4: zero): If you wish a lifestyle of being a zippie by seeking mostly freebies
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Step 5: live as much as possible on free food
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Step 6: read free books
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Step 7: use free software
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Step 8: or use library computer.
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Step 9: Adopt an anti-Yuppie lifestyle
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Step 10: if that is you zippie idea.
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Step 11: Dress informally as opposite of the pinstriped
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Step 12: neck tied
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Step 13: suit wearing Yuppie.
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Step 14: Adapt a Wired Magazine or Encyclopedia Psychedelica Magazine interpretation of the zippie to yourself.
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Step 15: Develop an alternative style based on this zippie - "a huge cohort of Indian youth who are first to come of the age since India shifted away from socialism and dived headfirst into global trade and information revolution by turning itself into world's service center" : See this one is more like "Zippy" (defined in tips below) as another interpretation reported by Friedman as found in an Indian weekly magazine called Outlook.
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Step 16: Work "for the love of it" if you want to--even for nothing: You would not necessarily work for the suburban dream
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Step 17: and perhaps with little or no earnings
Detailed Guide
If you have the suburban or nice apartment dream or ambitions to be a traditional business person or manager, then this is probably for someone else, another person.
Zippies received media exposure during the American 1972 Democratic and Republican National Conventions in Miami Beach, Florida, when the term was worn on t-shirts by counter-culture activists and groups working to end US involvement in the Vietnam War. , Eat fancy restaurant leftovers for free
-- if you wash a few dishes or something?
They are found as various youths who have taken up the term and may differ from the earlier groupings.
They may interact with other "Zippie tribes" from across the planet and communicate, or just do their own versions as a group or individual life style. , Be an informal computer-geek or technician (in techie culture).Wikipedia:
Yuppie: , "There's a new and rapidly spreading cultural virus ripping through the British Isles.
The symptoms of those infected include attacks of optimism, strong feelings of community and lowered stress levels.
Will their gathering in August at the Grand Canyon be the Woodstock of the '90s?"This is also revealed in the magazine Encyclopedia Psychedelica (EPi), that identified them as "Hippies with zip." EPi says, a zippie is "someone who has balanced their hemispheres to achieve a fusion of the technological and the spiritual.
The techno-person understands that rationality, organization, long-term planning, consistency and single-mindedness are necessary to achieve anything solid on the material level.
The hippie understands that vision, individuality, spontaneity, flexibility and open-mindedness are crucial to realize anything on the spiritual scale."
They called zippies "Liberalization's Children," and defines one of that subculture as "a young city or suburban resident, between 15 and 25 years of age, with a zip in the stride.
Belongs to generation Z.
Can be male or female, studying or working.
Oozes attitude, ambition and aspiration.
Cool, confident and creative.
Seeks challenges, loves risks and shuns fears." Indian zippies carry no guilt about making money or spending it.
They are, says one Indian analyst quoted by Outlook, "destination driven, not destiny driven; outward, not inward, looking; upwardly mobile, not stuck-in-my-station-in-life."
doing zip for zip:
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