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I think the big political and socio-economic crossovers are considered by the larger populi as endemic to their times. Yes, the Great Depression certainly DEFINES the 30's in America.
Vietnam is essential to everyone's consideration of the 60's.
The Cold War went on so long I don't think it can be ascribed to any particular decade.
But wow, the 10-day Desert Storm action being essential to the 90's? My mileage certainly varies on that one.
I'm not making anyone wrong. If that's 90's to you, then it is. There's nothing incorrect about picking and choosing which elements of time you assign in your mind as quintessential to any artificially-defined time period.
So yeah, I suppose even I can come up with a political element or two that are quintessential to the Milleni-Os (sp? - but I love that term). But no pop-cultural ones spring to my mind ... for the last 20 years. No fashions (seems everything is a re-tread of earlier fashions). No music (nothing seems a new and unique style). I'm getting the distinct feeling It's All Been Done.
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