Cardiff ranked 14th for searches for veganism, with a plant-based diet considered to go hand in hand with the rise in
hipsterism.
But in the decade of austerity, and Brexit and Trump,
hipsterism is a glimmer of cultural light in a dark, pessimistic world.
notion of "
hipsterism" as a more authentic form of living in
But one can easily see evidence of this creeping, bland
hipsterism in many American cities; terms like "coffee culture" and "microbrewery" are stand-ins for "the savvy whites have arrived to buy up cheap real estate." There are physical markers to the landscape of a gentrifying neighborhood, too: an article on LAist noted the ubiquity of pseudo-modernist, horizontal wooden-slat fences entombing front yards in transitioning neighborhoods as "a signifier for the exhaustive pace at which the city has changed in the past 5 to 10 years--for better or worse." Good fences make invisible neighbors.
So we could snarl with disdain toward those attending costly private schools, especially in the South, though certain Ivy schools such as Harvard (from whence came Kennedy and most of his cabinet) and off-beat liberal arts schools such as Reed College, known to propagate
hipsterism, were exempt.
Burnistoun's Big Night In, BBC Scotland Rab Florence and Iain Connell put the beard, brogues and craft beers of Finnieston
hipsterism to the sword with no mercy.
But Miles, while remaining very hip, at the same time also lived and worked far beyond the insular world of
hipsterism and avant-garde bohemia.
