It is strange and disturbing to watch the straight (i.e., mainstream) community's angry, sometimes violent reaction to the hippies. There are many reasons for this. The principal one is appearance. The hippies dress strangely. They dress this way because they have thrown a lot of middle-class notions out of the window and with them the most sensitive middle-class dogma: the neutral appearance.
The straight world is a jungle of taboos, fears, and personality games. People in that jungle prey on each other mercilessly. Therefore, to survive in any jungle requires good protective coloring: the camouflage of respectable appearance. The anonymity of middle-class dress is like a flag of truce. It means (whether true or not): “I'm not one of the predators.” It is in the nature of an assurance of harmlessness. Unusual or bright-colored clothing then becomes an alarm, a danger signal to the fearful and their armed truce with the rest of mankind. They see it as a challenge. They are fearful, unsure of themselves, and fear sours into anger. It is but a step to thinking that the anger is “good”. The oldest fallacy in the world is that anything that makes you angry must be mad.
The sin of the hippies is that they will not play the straight game of camouflage. Their non-participation, in effect, exposes them as another tribe, whose disregard of straight taboos of dress makes them seem to be capable of anything, and therefore a danger. That danger moreover is felt clear up to city hall, that shrine of Squaredom. Why else, I submit, does the Health Department of this city have such a tender solitude about the living conditions of human beings at the Haight when they have ignored the conditions at Hunter's Point, the Mission and the Fillmore?
Many people cannot understand the hippies' rejection of everything that is commonly expected of the individual in regard to employment and life goals: steady lucrative employment, and the accumulation through the years of possessions and money, building (always building) security for the future. It is precisely this security hypochondria, this checking of bank book rather than pulses, this worrying over budgets instead of medicine cabinets, that drive the youth of today away. It is this frantic concern with money that also drives the young into the Haight-Ashbury.
They have seen their parents slave for years, wasting away a lifetime to make sure that the house was paid off, that the kids got through school in order to get “good” jobs so that they could join the frantic scramble, later on. The parents' reward for this struggle is that they wind up old and tired, alienated from their children, and just as often each parent from the other.
The hippies dress strangely because they have defied the dressing values of the middle class.
根据文章第一段最后一句“They dress this way because they have thrown a lot of middle-class notions out of the window and with them the most sensitive middle-class dogma: the neutral appearance.”可知其摒弃了中世纪 的很多概念和主要信条。故正确。
For middle class, to survive in the straight world is to protect themselves by the camouflage of respectable appearance.
根据文章第二段第二句“Therefore, to survive in any jungle requires good protective coloring: the camouflage of respectable appearance.”可知在中世纪那样的环境生存下来需要体面的外表的伪装。故正确。
The hippies belong to another tribe of people because they have a different custom of dresses.
根据文章第三段第二句“Their non-participation, in effect, exposes them as another tribe,”可知是他们的不参 与使他们看起来像另一个部落的，而不仅仅是衣着的不同。故错误。
The hippies understand their parents struggling their way all their lives and sympathize them.
根据文章最后一段倒数第二句“They have seen their parents slave for years, wasting away a lifetime to make sure that the house was paid off,”所用的词“waste”可知嬉皮士是不理解他们父母的所作所为的。故错误。