[bjoli]

As someone who's not a native english speaker (and hasn't spent more than week or two in an English speaking country) I pondered a little the on meaning of hipster. I don't think I made much more progress in defining it than "trend sensitive". I am not sociologist by any means, but if anything described the current trends in the cultural middle class it is striving towards some kind of ill-defined claims of authenticity. What better way to express it in the instagram age than through outer means like fashion or by borrowing fashion from other movements that are known for rebelling against the ideas of their time.

The hipster is just tip of the collective idea iceberg.