Counterculture and Sub-culture
(Below) Famous musician Frank Zappa's daughter Moon Zappa performing "Valley Girl", a song written by Frank Zappa which potrayed the "rediculousness" that his daughter, and many other girls, were stereotyped to be.
"Self-absorbed young professionals, earning good pay, enjoying the cultural attractions of sophisticated urban life and thought, and generally out of touch with most of the challenges and concerns of a far less well-off and more parochial Middle America."
- Victor Davis Hanson, American military historian, columnist,and former classics professor
Yuppies, or (Y)oung (U)ruban (P)rofessionals, were a group of young adults, generally in their twentys, who pursued an early college life in order to gain a high paying job generally in a business enviornment. Yuppies came up as an act againt the popular Hippies that became a cultural norm after their rise in the '60s. Overall Yuppies were the antithesis of the hippies usually dressing in high-cost business wear while living a lush upper-class lifestyle whilst ignoring most problems in the world not affecting themselves.
Alongside the Yuppies rose the Valley Girls, a female equivilant to the Yuppies who were born in money rather than working constantly to gain it. Known for phrases such as "Like Totally" and "As if!"Valley Girls represented the stereotype of a Californian, high-calss white girl.