How old are you? I think that you became aware of the term "yuppies" in the 80s, so that you think that it originated then, but believe me, I was your age in the 60s, and we were calling them "yuppies" then, in contrast to the hippies. Young Urban Professional = YUPpie.
I doubt very much you were my age in the 60s. The first recorded use of the word "yuppie" dates to 1980. "Yippies," however, could be found in the 1960s. But an entirely different animal than a yuppie.
Although the actual term "yuppies" was coined in 1980 and later became popularized later in the decade, I'd say those urban citizens who could legitimately answer to the modern term "yuppies" dates back to the ancient Mesopotamian city of Uruk, 6,000 years ago---thought to be one of the earliest examples of a "city."
Urukians created "cuneiform," the the first known form of writing. If that isn't a yuppie project, I don't know what is.
"...Yuppie, short for "young urban professional" or "young upwardly-mobile professional", is a term coined in the early 1980s for a young professional person working in a city. The term is first attested in 1980, when it was used as a fairly neutral demographic label, but by the mid-to-late 1980s, when a "yuppie backlash" developed due to concerns over issues such as gentrification, some writers began using the term pejoratively."
"...The counterculture movement of the 1960s did not always present a united front politically. Many who embraced the peaceful elements of the hippie lifestyle were not especially anxious to confront the 'system' head on. Other factions, such as the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), were often all too ready to use physical force and the power of the masses to achieve political goals. Between these two camps were members of the Youth International Party, more commonly known as the Yippies. Founding members of the Yippies included Abbie Hoffman, his wife Anita and Jerry Rubin.
The Yippies were more likely to use guerrilla theater or public pranks to bring attention to their causes. Although the Yippies were more radicalized than the hippies, most members and associates drew the line at organized protests and sit-ins."
I WAS THERE IN THE 1960S! Are you calling me a liar to my face? Or are you assuming that you know more about what happened in the 1960s than I, a living witness, does?
I know what a "yippie" is; that's what we hippies called the student activists over in Berkeley.
AND WE CALLED YOUNG URBAN PROFESSIONALS "YUPPIES"
You're referring to the "first recorded instance" of the use of the word, but who ever paid attention to what we hippies said?
Stop quoting what we said, from some authoritative source. Since I am a living witness, I am far more authoritative than it is.
Cappies are exactly the same class as the yuppies of the 60s.
Yuppies debuted in the '80s, not the 60's.
How old are you? I think that you became aware of the term "yuppies" in the 80s, so that you think that it originated then, but believe me, I was your age in the 60s, and we were calling them "yuppies" then, in contrast to the hippies. Young Urban Professional = YUPpie.
I doubt very much you were my age in the 60s. The first recorded use of the word "yuppie" dates to 1980. "Yippies," however, could be found in the 1960s. But an entirely different animal than a yuppie.
Although the actual term "yuppies" was coined in 1980 and later became popularized later in the decade, I'd say those urban citizens who could legitimately answer to the modern term "yuppies" dates back to the ancient Mesopotamian city of Uruk, 6,000 years ago---thought to be one of the earliest examples of a "city."
Urukians created "cuneiform," the the first known form of writing. If that isn't a yuppie project, I don't know what is.
"...Yuppie, short for "young urban professional" or "young upwardly-mobile professional", is a term coined in the early 1980s for a young professional person working in a city. The term is first attested in 1980, when it was used as a fairly neutral demographic label, but by the mid-to-late 1980s, when a "yuppie backlash" developed due to concerns over issues such as gentrification, some writers began using the term pejoratively."
"...The counterculture movement of the 1960s did not always present a united front politically. Many who embraced the peaceful elements of the hippie lifestyle were not especially anxious to confront the 'system' head on. Other factions, such as the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), were often all too ready to use physical force and the power of the masses to achieve political goals. Between these two camps were members of the Youth International Party, more commonly known as the Yippies. Founding members of the Yippies included Abbie Hoffman, his wife Anita and Jerry Rubin.
The Yippies were more likely to use guerrilla theater or public pranks to bring attention to their causes. Although the Yippies were more radicalized than the hippies, most members and associates drew the line at organized protests and sit-ins."
I WAS THERE IN THE 1960S! Are you calling me a liar to my face? Or are you assuming that you know more about what happened in the 1960s than I, a living witness, does?
I know what a "yippie" is; that's what we hippies called the student activists over in Berkeley.
AND WE CALLED YOUNG URBAN PROFESSIONALS "YUPPIES"
You're referring to the "first recorded instance" of the use of the word, but who ever paid attention to what we hippies said?
Stop quoting what we said, from some authoritative source. Since I am a living witness, I am far more authoritative than it is.
Ahead of the times, apparently, and authoritative you are.