What was the general mindset of the people in the 1940s? Were they joyful or depressed?
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Most of them were both...the 40's we were still recovering from the stock market crash of 1930 something...but then again, we were in a pre war manufacturing craze. Mass production was at its highest around the 40's.
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I think that all cultures have people who are contented and satisfied with their lives. Take us in Jamaica for example, people think that every day we are killing off each other but that is not entirely the case. Yes, we do have many problems and poverty and crime are significant factors, but many people I know are quite happy and satisfied with their lives. I know that for many this sense of peace comes from their religious beliefs and their families and Friends. I have always thought though that the Japanese seem quite contented. Don't know why maybe because they seem to rarely shout. I also think that many people living in third world countries like Haiti and Sudan are not quite satisfied with their lives because they lack the necessary resources to enjoy a well balanced and happy life
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Some people are optimistic, that may equate to a general feeling of happiness.  I think people confuse happiness and optimism.  I personally don't know anyone that you would consider happy.  It's an illusion or denial.  I don't want to be happy, maybe a healthy pessimism.
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interesting...happy maybe not.  Could you mean kind or nice people..many times they just dont try to control as much
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Here's a neat site oon 1940s culture. Once you have an idea of what you're looking for (Big Band, Frank Sinatra, etc) you can look on amazon.com, ebay or your library for the cds.\n\nhttp://www.wgeneration.com/1940.html
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Go to the 40's and find out
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EMOtional ... it's where they think it's cool to be depressed.   Over-wrought with emotions.  They are experiencing life and love for the first time and being overly melodramatic about it.  I'll update in a second with some funny links about this for you ... check back in a minute, OK ?\n\n/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92; UPDATED /&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;/&#92;\n\nCheck the link below ... sorry, more links there, but the videos will do very good to inform you of what EMO culture really is ... a joke.
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Well, I think that my own observations and conversations with Japanese people for over 15 years is reliable so here goes...\n\nThe younger generations of Japan have grown up in a democratic and basically free society. Amongst these generations, you'll find two things:\n\n1. People that love the way things are.\n2. People that look back and, having forgotton the attrocities of WWII, wish for things to go back to the old ways. These people are very very much in the minority.\n\nAmongst the very older generations, it is not hard to find resentment, especially amongst males. I have spoken with several and they told me stories of their schools teaching them anti American/Western 'morals' that were coupled with horror stories of how westerners are. Amongst older women, many are greatful for the freedom they found with the occupation.\n\n-TGW-
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agree with you as the best times I remember were family orientated. seems as though modern society in having to make a living has taken over
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Its all in one’s perspective.  I was born before World War II and during my life I spent my early years on a farm that had no running water except for a hand-pump at the kitchen sink that drew from a cistern.  There was no bathroom in the house and bed pots were under every bed with an outhouse.  Baths were once a week with in a galvanized metal tub on the floor of the kitchen.  In my early years heat was from wood.  The sheets on the beds were sewn together from flour sacks.  Cloths were mostly hand me downs.  We raised and grew stored and canned all of our food except for staples such as sugar.  Although we had a tractor, horses we used to farm every day.  We “watched” the radio and during warm months went to the nearest small town a couple of times a month and watched movies on the outside wall of a large building. We entertained ourselves and attended the county fair.  I remember when the telephone was first installed and it was a party-line.\n\nWe never considered ourselves poor.  My generation and those older knew all of this from personal experience and we still know it.  It was a self sufficient culture.  While many modern advances have been made, in the rural areas of the United States such attitudes yet exist.  \n\nIt is less a matter of understanding what it is to be poor than it is to know that one must be responsible for their acts and to be self sufficient.
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Therefore what?\n\nI agree that you are primarily responsible for your success or happiness, but others do hold factors that you can't control.  For example, it's harder to get a good-paying job during a recession or depression, or when there's so much outsourcing and downsizing like there is now.  And how happy can you be, really, if you're someone's captive or slave, like the Native Americans of the late 19th-century or the African-Americans before the Civil War (and since, due to Jim Crow).  And it's hard to establish success if you're in the middle of a war zone.\n\nThat said, I believe that even a prisoner in a concentration camp can find some source of happiness within him/herself, especially if they know God.  That person won't be totally happy, but he/she'll have an inner reservoir of peace, and will be happier, and can even help make others happier.\n\nConversely, if you're miserable inside, even if you're in decent circumstances, your misery will creep out, making yourself, others, and your circumstances more miserable.  Believe me, I've seen it happen in my own family.  Think of Ebenezer Scrooge.
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People are depressed because we're not getting enough positive stuff into our brains.\n\nWe need to turn off the TV, stop accepting communications <e-mails, phone, visits> from those negative family/friends, and stop listening to negative music.\n\nPeople are complaining that we're a fat generation...we'll were also getting fat in our emotions.  Just like when you eat a bag of chips is getting you physically fat, so is playing video games that kill people, or watching "Desparate House Wives" and getting negative perspectives on life.  If you fill your brain with this junk, you'll get depressed. \n\nOf course, there is different types of depression which doctors are helpful with, but I'd say, we have stuck too much junk in the brain, and are suffering from it.
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World War II: The Impact at Home\n\nThe quick fall of France to the German army in 1940 shook the strong pacifist sentiment of the American public. Suddenly, Great Britain alone stood between Nazi Germany and the United States. Once the United States was fully committed to the war in December of 1941, patriotism soared in American society. Americans' willingness to carry out blackout and civil defense drills; to recycle metals, paper, and even cooking fats; to work longer hours, but to have fewer consumer goods to buy with their salaries demonstrated the nation's strong support for the war. There were political changes as well, as the country began to shift to the right. \n\nhttp://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture21.html\n\nWhat effects did WWII have on women in America?\n\nWomen began to do the jobs that the men used to do. They worked in factories, steel mills, and on fighter planes. A woman who worked in an industrial or manufacturing job was refered to as "Rosy the Riviter".\n\nWomen married earlier in life, had more children and relied much less on their husbands after the war. The divorce rate in the United States and Britain skyrocketed, compared to previous years. Women held higher paying jobs than in pre-war years, and this caused some conflict when men were discharged from the military and wanted their old jobs back, which were now held by women.\n\nWomen went into the workplace and never looked back. They took over factory jobs, drove trucks, flew military aircraft across the Atlantic Ocean to England, and numerous other jobs that had traditionaly been open only to men. Once the men returned from the war the women were more independant than ever and would never be content to sit at home again.\n\nWomen played the role of helping fabricate weapons and bombs and all the equipment the soldiers would need. Women never set foot on the battle field but they also were nurses and assistants and that helped alot since they needed medical treatments\n\nhttp://www.faqfarm.com/Q/What_effects_did_WWII_have_on_women_in_America
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You are making a statement that is unproven. Remember that whatever the condition of man, you will always hear from the minority that are unhappy, while the majority that are happy are too busy enjoying themselves to make themselves known to you and me. The news media will always "write" their stories about the unusual features of society, not the common. You wouldn't buy a magazine to read "Mr. and Mrs. Smith have sold their multi-store grocery chain and are enjoying their early retirement with 10-15 close neighbors in their third summer home in the Adirondack mountains.", now would you? But you would buy "C. Jones comitted to J. K. nursing and psychiatric hospital for severe depression." So we notice the unusual, not the usual. Many wealthy, powerful, and influential people are very happy and satisfied in their early, well-earned retirement. My parents are.
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People today suck ...too wrapped up in there own selfish lives to give a crap nowadays.\nBack in the day it was all peace, love and harmony and people cared for one another.\nAnd the kids have it so bad ...they could never relate to it anyway.
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Probably because they feel like they have everything life has to offer and it is still not enough to make them happy. They have probably forgotten how to enjoy the simple things.
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Jimmy Durante, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz, all of the MJQ.\n\nThey were just plain people making a very good living.