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 * __ Peace and Counter-Culture: The Effects on Students  __**

It started as a small reaction to the conservative norms of the 1950’s by college students in the West near California. The Counter-Culture Movement started to grow as students were introduced to new socially radical **__music__** such as the Beatles, the Anti-Vietnam War reactions, as well as the emergence of psychedelic drugs. The new era brought forth change in average citizen’s minds.



The most affected by the movement were the students themselves. They started to question their overpowering materialistic society in which they lived in. They also started to free themselves from previous sexual/racial tensions, confined thoughts and views, their clothing which represented their old social communities, as well as even their dominant consciousness. The students fabricated independence as they started to rely on new drugs such as Marijuana and LSD to enter their sub-conscious minds. They separated themselves from society and made their own status-free communities of peace. These children of the counter-culture movement went on to become the most important Anti-War supporters during the era.



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 * __Students of the Era__**