Talk:Youth International Party
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I'm going to delete the "alternative modern use"--please don't restore it unless you you can supply some citations for this use of the word. "Yuppie" was derived from "yippie," and it meant pretty much exactly what this post claims "yippie" means. And the "Chomskite" buisness is hopelessly POV.
- "yuppie" as in "young urban professional"? 60.234.229.137 12:48, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
Yuppie is far more capitalism oriented. The neologism use of "yippie" here is a somewhat popular alternative to "yupster" (yuppie-hipster) except forging hippie and yuppie together. Yippie as such is supposed to describe middle-class, anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarians who have thrown away personal activism in favor of sideline cheering. The type of folks who would frequent yuppie Starbucks only to self-righteously buy the one "fair trade" option. A quick google search pulls up these:
http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=44d9c450-26c4-4eee-b098-08049d180d96&k=32144 http://www.strategicmarketingmontreal.ca/2006/07/grups-are-never-broken-down-by-age-and.html http://thedailygrowl.blogspot.com/2006/01/yippie-yindie-yupster-which-are-you.html http://williamgillis.blogspot.com/2004_08_01_williamgillis_archive.html
The alternative definition is already mentioned on the Yuppie page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuppie#Related_terms
--24.21.85.144 01:12, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Political Party
This article leaves me asking "What was their agenda? What did they believe? What did they wish to accomplish? Where were they on the political spectrum?" Yes, they were theatrical, but they were a political party, they had to have some sort of platform right? Kyaa the Catlord 14:08, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
- I think this is a fair criticism - I know what the Yippies were about, but if you read the article cold it doesn't come through. If someone has the time and energy, expansion here would be a good idea. If I can find the time I'll try, but I hope someone will get the ball rolling. Tvoz 20:08, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
