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Originally posted by techweenie
David: you forgot the real #1 social change aspect of the '60s: the Pill.

I thought 4,5 and 7 on my list pretty much insured the beauty of the pill. :D

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Originally posted by dd74

5) Prejudice ran rampid but unspoken of in the 50s.

Rampid? Are we allowed to make up our own words now? But I agree with you about the GD hippie freaks.

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Originally posted by nine_one_4
Rampid? Are we allowed to make up our own words now?

Says the guy who spells it "hippy."

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Originally posted by dd74
Says the guy who spells it "hippy."

I thought I responded to that already. Btw, I live in Canada.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippy

Ooooh, yer Canadian, eh? ;)

Seriously, this thread's a joke. Well, except the ******* and the pill, and the music, etc. You should also add mini-skirts to the 60's list. Mmmmm, mini-skirts. :)

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Originally posted by nine_one_4
Btw, I live in Canada.

Yeah? Well trying to understand American cultural change might be a stretch for you.

But here, I've got a simpler question: how come the bacon up in your neck of the woods is so damn funny looking?

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Originally posted by nine_one_4
The stupid thing was changing the immigration laws to allow these people to flood in and to commit terrorist acts against the countries where they were born.

Interesting. The only documented terrorist act related to border crossing was the explosives stopped on their way from Canada in '99.

We appreciate your concern for our welfare down here in the states, but clean up your own house, first, hoser.

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Originally posted by dd74
Yeah? Well trying to understand American cultural change might be a stretch for you.

But here, I've got a simpler question: how come the bacon up in your neck of the woods is so damn funny looking?

I think it has something to do with the freakin' hippies......

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Originally posted by nine_one_4
No, but you clearly are. So what culture (and laws) are in place today? Answer: The laws the "rebellious youths" agitated for.

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"In sociology, counterculture is a term used to describe a cultural group whose values and norms are at odds with those of the social mainstream, a cultural equivalent of a political opposition. In casual practice, the term came to prominence in the general press as it was used to refer to the youth rebellion that swept North America and Western Europe in the 1960s and early 1970s. Earlier countercultural milieux in 19th century Europe included the traditions of romanticism, Bohemianism and of the Dandy.

This movement was a reaction against the conservative social morals of the 1950s, the political conservatism (and perceived social repression) of the Cold War period, and the US government's extensive military intervention in Vietnam. Opposition to the war was exacerbated in the US by the compulsory military draft.

The 1960s youth rebellion largely originated on college campuses, emerging directly out of the American Civil Rights Movement. The Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley was one early example, as a socially privileged group of students began to identify themselves as having interests as a class that were at odds with the interests and practices of the university and its corporate sponsors."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterculture

I read this definition and say, "Blame the '50s, not the hippies".

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Originally posted by nine_one_4
Way to practice selective reading. Why didn't you quote this?

And this?

I've finally got it! You think all brown people are terrorists - kinda a genetic thing.

Like that well known brown guy, Timothy McVeigh.

You are Alfred, you've been banned before, now bugger off.

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Originally posted by CamB
You are Alfred, you've been banned before, now bugger off.

Ah ha! Son of a b!tch!