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What is the Great Society? |
Having a traditional family is a significant part of the culture in the United States during the 1950's. However, what is always failed to mention, this traditional family was for white citizens. Latinx, Native, and Asian-Pacific citizens all had different family structures. Family was still important to all of these groups but the roles were different. For Latinx, it is normal to have different generations in one household. Instead of just having parents and children, at times it is the grandparents along with the aunts and uncles. For Natives, unlike the 'traditional' family, women are valued and not just housewives (being a housewife is okay, just in the traditional family women were limited to only this role instead of having other options, like working). For Asian-Pacific, resembled both the Latinx family values and the Native values for family.
During the mid-1900's was also the birth of the baby boomers. The majority of baby boomers were white and this is important to keep in mind when thinking about everything to come regarding this particular generation and their values. The baby boomers were a result of soldiers coming home from WWII and people wanting to procreate in the event of another World War. Also at this time was President Lyndon B Johnson's, Great Society. His goal was to basically fix the United States and implemented the War on Poverty. His great society affected the Natives, Latinx, and Asian-Pacific Americans. These groups were structurally built in society to be of lower socioeconomic status, thus being apart of the War on Poverty. Despite Johnsons Great Society, in the 60's and 70's was this movement known as the counter culture. This was during the time many baby boomers were entering their teenage years. The counterculture was just a movement challenging the norms of being traditional. Due to many different factors, the population of all of these minority groups increased throughout the 1900's with a large change in the end of the 1900's. During this time too, was the civil rights movement for each of these respective groups. |