Cultural Changes Of The 1960s And 1970s

Cultural Changes Of The 1960s And 1970sIn the 1960s Americans started to brain the Americas refining of materialism, consumerism and Political norms. In their quest into see pansy a split world, they used music, politics and unconventional lifestyle bequeathing a wise means of life that was referred to as the revolutionary replication culture. The 1960s were a stopover of protest and reforms as young American demonstrated against the Vietnam War, the African Americans demanded civil rights and the women were advocating for gender equality1. The hero, therefore, was that person who helped others especially in achieving these. Americans faced galore(postnominal) issues that ranged from blazonry race, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and to liberty issues that pertained to drug use and sexual orientations. This new culture incorporated the nonions of peace, love and unity as well as the intellects of religion, the mystic world as well as usage of drugs to smash one under(a)standing of his self-awareness. This movement contributed to the great changes that affected America as the jejuneness were courageous enough to challenge the established authorities, were advocating for much mixer tolerance as the peoples perception of matters that touch gender marriage, environment and children rights slowly changed.A good number of the youths escaped from the problems of the cities like crime and drug abuse to find refuge in the countryside where they forged new lifestyles that underscore a common political ideology and were faced with spiritual reawakening to spoil in new spiritual encounters that favoured the peace of mind e.g. the Yoga and meditation. Many Americans were under fear of the nuclear holocaust. The shock of the Vietnam War and the prejudices of the racial injustice were modify by the culture of materialism and consumerism a resultant of the brute capitalism. To counter all these, the youths engaged at sit-in at schools, colleg es, churches, hotels and other facilities. These youths were godlike by leaders such as John F Kennedy, Martin Luther king among others that acted as the political ring leaders2. A group of democratic politicians and activist that advocated for improved welfare used the expansion of the welfare arouse in California to reach out to the partys electoral coalition hence range the preliminary stage of the partys identity politics of the 1970s and beyond. Thus the youth had to change their appearance and character to suit whatever they were advocating for. These were done with c divvy uphes, musical lyrics and the expressions of the arts that were used to explicitly articulate and advocate for these changes that concerned matters of free speech, liberty and political reforms phenomenas were not new to the American rules of order as they are the basis for the American state. Music was used as a force of change to alter peoples thoughts and action. It brought about a culture change t hat was based on the hip hop culture. The fashion was not left behind as the men drew on pack cuts and the women had bouffant hairstyles.By the middle of the 60s, the women were wearing miniskirts and hot pants that were worn-out with the go-go boots that revealed the legs while the body wear revealed the body curves of women as their hair was make either short or tall and thin. The culture ended the idea of make women second class citizens. All this advocating was not in fruitless as the period of change came in the 1970s where the favorable experiments were assay out leading to change and partly showed what the Americans would be like in the 1980s. In the 1970s the state of America ended its involvement in the Vietnam War and the civil and women rights movement attained many of the goals that they were advocating for. The economy at this time was hit by a very hard time out (the cyclic nature of a capitalistic economy) that saw high-interest rates and inflation. The repli cation was felt in the whole world leading to a spend in the supply of oil resulting into an acute shortage of the product. The liberal democrats who were in power for most of the 1960s lost in the 1970s to a buttoned-down politician Richard Nixon where he was forced to resign during the Watergate scandal3. Gerald Ford the frailness president came in but lost later. Carter who replaced him was also voted out as a result of his failure to improve the economy. These changes of the 1970s affected the push through culture, education and politics around America. In the film, radio and television industry, a popular program of the time was named All in the Family that was a pulverization worker who disliked black people and vehemently opposed women rights. scarcely its his family that slowly made him change his ways and accept the difference of the Americas social fabric. Other programs helped Americas to escape from the problems afflicting them by depicting a utopian smart life e. g. happy days and the Threes company the message was also same in the music industry. The folk music was much appreciated in the 1960s as it concerned the social problems4.With the advent of the 1970s incompatible groups started to play hard rock and punk music. The reforms also led to a change in the education system as a lot of people were disinterested in furthering their education after college since they were busy advocating for social and political reforms5. The war in Vietnam had also bogged them down with the view that more education led to increased inequality. In the mid-1970s though, the need to make more money led to many Americans going for higher education as it had become acceptable and higher education provided the skills that were needed for this. In the 60s and 70 they were acting in a collective manner and after achieving many of their goals the focus shifted to making money and living a life that they had wide desired. A sign of becoming more concerned with th eir personal life. This new counterculture ended the idea of making political decisions that people do not support and made the environment a priority for the government and the state of America in general6.Notes.1. Bruce J. Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer, conservative in the Rightward bound making America 1970s. (Harvard Harvard University Press, 2008), 7.2. commonplace Publishing Group, Of the people the 200-year history of the Democratic Party. (Santa Monica General Pub. Group, 1992), 140-160.3. Rodney P. Carlisle, America in uprising during the 1960s and 1970s. (ABC-CLIO, 2007) 62-96.4. Rodney, America in revolt during the 1960s and 1970s, 179.5. General Publishing Group, Of the people the 200-year history of the Democratic Party, 102-104.6. Bruce and Zelizer, conservative in the Rightward bound making America 1970s, 200-230