It is both exciting and frightening to think that my generation and my children's generation is part of a social world that is so different from the social world of America just 30 years ago. The economy, the religion, the politics and the many other areas of life have all been significantly altered.
EXTENDED THOUGHTS
I find that our culture and lifestyle are very obviously peculiar and unprecedented in history when I hear about the way that life is lived in many areas of Africa and South Asia. In many ways these areas are representative of a type of neo-feudalism. The social world in these areas leaves individuals propertyless and in a situation of indentured servitude. Also, these areas are characterized by failed states or non-existent government. Therefore the primary social structure for these people remain the family and the religious tradition.
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