A person having both the values of the counterculture of the 1960s and the materialism of the 1980s; a bourgeois Bohemian.
〈非正式〉波波族，布波族（既有20世纪60年代反主流文化又有80年代物质主义价值观的人）
as modifierBobo culture
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The papers report that forward-looking Bobos, eying long-term demographic and employment trends, are now jousting to get their kids into Spanish-concentration magnet schools.
Paradise for the Bobo, or ‘bourgeois bohemian,’ doesn't look quite so idyllic as it did when this book first appeared in 2000.
The Bobo (Bohemian and Bourgeois) style still has a leading role to play this autumn and winter, according to Wang Lei, the city's leading stylist.
Now, in the twenty-first century, we have Bobos.
In their puritanical disdain for cigarettes, drunkenness, and rich food, the Bobos show themselves to be far more bourgeois than bohemian.
The difference is that Bobos, who ‘combined the countercultural '60s and the achieving '80s into one social ethos,’ are today's ruling elite.
If this generation, the Now Generation, the Baby Boomers, the Bobos, are relied upon to lead society now, with their sense of values, we are going into a dark age.
Although Brooks often insists that there are many conservative Bobos as well, his work clearly describes a Blue State lifestyle.
With a decent education and the right attitude you too can join the ranks of the Bobos - or bourgeois bohemians, the class that now rules the world, according to new book from the USA.
Where the argument is less convincing is Brooks' insistence that Bobos are driven with a zeal for self-improvement in every area of their lives - going on eco-holidays or cultural sightseeing in order to progress as people.