Alumother

Couple of you have made reference to hipsters. In my experience, every organization in the world has factions of sorts. And the question is, like how? When you say "hipsters" at Brown, what do you mean?

Another way of putting the question is, if there are people who consider themselves to be at the top of the Brown social structure, who are they? I believe Brown is more egalitarian in this way than many other places, but no place in the world is fully egalitarian.

Discuss amongst yourselves.

ClaySoul

hipster in style, not in popularity or supreme social status. there isn't that here with brown as a whole. perhaps within specific circles.

wolfmanjack

i just think it's funny that people wear sunglasses that i wore when i was little (80's)...and think it's the coolest thing ever

SBmom

circa 1980, our hipsters were a mix of chichi Manhattanites, Eurotrash, & very creative film/music/theater types. And a few punks.

ilovebagels

No self-respecting hipster would ever admit to being a hipster, let alone partaking in a conversation on hipsters

manders21390

If someone keeps on talking about having better music taste/style, they're the jerk hipsters. Just tell them to stop being pretentious. And like ilovebagels said, "no self-respecting hipster would ever admit to being a hipster."

Signs that someone's a hipster:
The person in question wears vintage clothes.
The person listens to the Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Beirut, and The National
Any others? I'm too tired to think right now.

ilovebagels

Search for "hipster olympics" on youtube...good times

Kristina

Do these "hipsters" associate with non-"hipsters" or people who don't put a whole lot of time/trouble into their appearance?

wolfmanjack

i think you are too worried about people not talking to certain groups of people or people being stuck up. this isn't high school. people talk to anyone, you'll find all sorts of people to socialize with, don't sweat it.

modestmelody

To say that Brown is cliquey, though, would give the wrong impression.

The social structure is that whoever you like to spend time thinks they're doing the most fun thing at a given moment. That's why they chose to do that amongst the million options they have.

justbreathe

There are far too many individuals here for there to be a social hierarchy. Farrr too many.