Society and Culture at the End of
the Twentieth Century
DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES: SURGE
OF IMMIGRATION AFTER 1965,
SUNBELT MIGRATION, AND THE
“GRAYING” OF AMERICA
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America’s population is aging by the minute. Due to the baby boom
those people are in their middle ages supporting their families the best
they can and probably hoping to retire soon. As these people are getting
older, hints the word graying, things like Medicare and social security
will be needed more than ever so in the next couple of decades this will
be a huge financial strain. This is considered a demographic change.
Sunbelt migration
REVOLUTIONS IN
BIOTECHNOLOGY, MASS
COMMUNICATION, AND
COMPUTERS
Mass communication is very helpful to us, it’s
how most of us get our information. Whether
it’s through radio, computer, books, magazines,
television, or the newspaper we all eventually
hear about what is or what was going on in our
world. Take history class for example even
though we did not live during that time, we have
textbooks and documentaries made so that we
can learn about past times. More and more
Biotechnology revolution
businesses are changing to computers to
refers to the impressions of
advance their technology. Computers are also
new technologies that let life used for social networking, such as facebook
be distorted at its genes. One and email. Email has become a very popular way
of the most recent moves is
of communication.
to clone human beings. That
is really neat that we figured
out how to clone humans but
if we clone more humans to
the world that would mean
more people that could
reproduce. The population
would increase.
POLITICS IN A MULTICULTURAL
SOCIETY
Politics by themselves may already have
their differences, but when you add
people from different cultures it allows us
to have an open mind when deciding what
is best for our country. Having so many
different languages and cultures gives us a
great opportunity to learn about others
heritage and also so we can take into
consideration of what would best suit for
all the different heritages.
As an example, president Barack
Obama was the first ever African
American president. The African
Americans who shared his culture
were so thrilled because they had
come along way in history when
African American’s were slaves and
they were treated poorly.
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