HUMA 1200 Lecture Notes - Zeitgeist, Americanization

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14 Apr 2014
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Words: zeitgeist: generation x, americanisation the global village, nihilism fable, plan b. Sons and daughters of the baby boomers, grew up in an age of wealth and comfort and access to information. Was left to find their own meanings, and left to find millions of search to find answers. Only answer they could find was from celebrity structure, right combination of things to buy, finally be happy. X=where the x represents their infinite search for meanings, literally a variable that always changes (infinite search for meaning) ***zeitgeist-spirit of time: what it was like in to grow up in the 1970" and 80", have to be there to really get a hold of it. What is it like to live in a particular history, the music the styles people live. The export of a specific cultural model worldwide: Not anti-american: we"re being americanized, to a greater or lesser degree, including.

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