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How is America more conservative than Europe?
Trauma-san:
"conservative" and "liberal" societies come and go, it ebbs and wanes. You're alluding to Europe being more liberal than America, when you find that 200 years ago, Europe was more conservative than those that founded America... but if you look back to say the 1500's, shit like pedophilia was an accepted practice in Europe at the time.
I'm not slamming Europe at all. I'm just saying that things get crazy, then tightly wound up, then crazy again all the time. This is nothing new. America is much more conservative now than it was in the 60's with all the hippies and free love, etc. And the 50's were much more conservative than we have it now... but if you look into info about the 30's, there was a TON of crazy shit going on in the urban cities of America. Now if you look at statistics, things like teen preganancy is dropping, drug use is dropping, crime in many cities is dropping, there's a lot of things turning back towards more traditional times again. a lot of it is family values hip-hopping over themselves... i.e. one generation is too strict, the next rebels and is too liberal, their children work hard to make a strong family for their children, who rebel, etc. It goes back and forth back and forth.
This is how things are... long after we're all gone, others will be talking about the same thing.
K.Dub:
Yo, you know that Europe ain't one nation?
Doggystylin:
--- Quote from: K.Dub on February 02, 2008, 05:37:31 PM ---Yo, you know that Europe ain't one nation?
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Yes. I am aware of that.
Doggystylin:
--- Quote from: Trauma-san on February 02, 2008, 05:13:17 PM ---"conservative" and "liberal" societies come and go, it ebbs and wanes. You're alluding to Europe being more liberal than America, when you find that 200 years ago, Europe was more conservative than those that founded America... but if you look back to say the 1500's, shit like pedophilia was an accepted practice in Europe at the time.
I'm not slamming Europe at all. I'm just saying that things get crazy, then tightly wound up, then crazy again all the time. This is nothing new. America is much more conservative now than it was in the 60's with all the hippies and free love, etc. And the 50's were much more conservative than we have it now... but if you look into info about the 30's, there was a TON of crazy shit going on in the urban cities of America. Now if you look at statistics, things like teen preganancy is dropping, drug use is dropping, crime in many cities is dropping, there's a lot of things turning back towards more traditional times again. a lot of it is family values hip-hopping over themselves... i.e. one generation is too strict, the next rebels and is too liberal, their children work hard to make a strong family for their children, who rebel, etc. It goes back and forth back and forth.
This is how things are... long after we're all gone, others will be talking about the same thing.
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That actually makes some kind of sense to me. So what you're saying is that we're just going through different periods.
Trauma-san:
--- Quote from: K.Dub on February 02, 2008, 05:37:31 PM ---Yo, you know that Europe ain't one nation?
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Yes, I do know that. Of course, you might as well be because we don't usually give you a second thought. To the average American, no other country even exists until we start thinking about where we're going to go on vacation.
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