How has history changed over the course of your life?

Question

What perspectives on history did you have when you where a youngen that you changed when u got olderer.

Answer 1

Living in Serbia - history HAS changed... I would say that politics have interfered more than it was supposed to...

Becoming a refugee in 1991, coming to a country that had its own crisis to deal with, live through NATO bombing...

Otherwise, it has been a pretty normal childhood... :)

So yes, history has changed a lot. First I thought history is a story of people's lives through different times. But history written down in our books it's nothing like that - it's more political and wrong political moves are, unfortunately, writers of "mortal" people's drama...

And look at me now - walking on sunshine!!! I learned to value those really important things in life... and make my own history...

Answer 2

JFK seemed to be one of my life's highlights.I grew up feeling like we couldn't trust our government when it came to truth, money and war. I still sometimes wonder how much different or worse things would be if he had lived and stopped us from going to war. Maybe we still would have anyway. I think these things are human nature and some things never change. The Internet has supposedly exposed more people and information but at the same time is as much or worse of a source for more lies and manipulation. I feel relieved when I watch some documentaries that rewrite history based on diaries and journals that humanize people like Abraham Lincoln. I still look forward to the possibility of a golden age. The problem it would seem will be; for whom?

Answer 3

there was less of it then than there is now.

to the above:

the implementations were probably your dad implementing his implement into your mothers receptive implement.

implications i think you meant.

Answer 4

ok well i was born in th swinging sixties

so that martiin luther king

vietnam and cold war

then grew up in the seventies lots of cool disco music there

teens in eighties again queen and lots of rock

sorted out russsia

IRA and PLO

nineties there ws the berlin wall and the war in kuwait

noughties we have iraq and afganistan 9/11 and 7/7 moslem phobia

gosh alot there

when iw was younger news was the only area that war was raised now it seeems it every where and on every ones mind

Answer 5

if i knew what perspective i should change when i was younger i propably would be as rich as you

Answer 6

poetry-music-shoes-pennie loafers-net hose-county fishing hunting to city life.

Answer 7

History was something you learned in school, and it belonged to a bygone era where people were brave and the people you wanted to win always won.

As a kid I was not part of history but as I grew up I became history, since I lived with it, I participated in it, and it affected me directly.

I realized that people make history by manipulation,

aggression, bravery, deceit, good intentions, bad intentions greed, hunger for power and the trait of wanting to prove that they are the only ones who are right, and more... History always changes the course of people's lives!

Pity it changes it for worse far more than it does for the better!

Answer 8

theres a old sayin tat history repeats itself i just believe in tis

Answer 9

The first thing I saw that I can actually remember is the Challenger Disaster.   So the space program was to change (Columbia proved that wrong)  We have been in war since the day I was born-(the cold war, and the middle east)  

I love history and everytime something happens that changes history....I am glued.  From the time that I can remember to the time I go to bed presently.

Answer 10

That anyone could become president, now I know that only rich kids of royal bloodlines can.

When I was a kid, I thought adults had everything under control, now that I'm an adult......omg

He who controls the past, controls the future.  He who controls the future, controls the past.

Answer 11

Everything used to be plugged in to the wall, except the typewriter, because it wasn't electric.

If I missed the Peanuts' special on TV, I had to wait until next year to see it.

My parents knew the owner of the local lumberyard...a "big box" was what the new refrigerator came in.

Answer 12

i think history has expanded to include more of the sum of human history, rather than just western history, i think there is still a long ways to go.

it has also taken on a very left leaning tilt

Answer 13

I used to think that development was totally good, but now I know it damages ecosystems.

Answer 14

I remember TVs not having a remote and only 3 channels.

Answer 15

History has had a major influence over my life. I was born in a British colony in Africa - just imagine the implementations of that.

Answer 16

when i was a youngen, i believed , as i got a wee bit older i questioned,

Everyone is a product of their enviroment, those who write history bring their own prejudices and personal points of view.

Now i live for now, now ,now...........