A lot of it. We look back at certain times in history and think how could they have thought that or acted that way... but people will do the same for our generation I'm sure. We all have our personal belief system but the world as a whole is definitely influenced by the times.
I would say about 50%. The other 50% is done by the society around you. That could include family, school, church, social groups. History is a big part of who a person is. My parents generation has a different viewpoint on the world than I do. I also notice it at school. The younger generation is more open minded than I am-and I thought I was really open minded!
Yep, a lot! Every generation thinks the one before was old fashioned. The world is constantly shifting and we can really only completely understand and respond to a world that we have lived in.
I think the things that are going on in the world at the time and that way you have been brought up can affect a person throughout their life. Most of the southerners were accustomed to slavery and considering the blacks inferior. It took many years and lots of lives lost and injustice committed for that to change. After WWII so many people were horrified by the treatment of the Jews but now so many people don't seem to be affected by it and even in some cases are trying to say it never happened. So many things accepted now days (many that shouldn't) were considered so wrong just 10 or 20 years ago.
We are a group of sisters, mothers, daughters, cousins, aunts, grandmothers, and friends coming together because of our shared love of reading.
Annegirl
Favorite books are the Anne series and Emily series by L.M Montgomery, the Harry Potter series by JK Rowling, Timeline and Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton,just about everything by Shannon Hale (especially Goose Girl and Book of A Thousand Days), the Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull, the Eragon series by Christopher Paolini, the Hunger Games trilogy and Gregor series by Suzanne Collins, the Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare, and Leviathan series by Scott Westerfeld. I add to my favorites list all the time!
Bookworm
Favorite books include Gone With the Wind, the Harry Potter series, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion, Sense and Sensibility, Hunt for Red October, The Patriarch (George Washington), Those Who Love, and The Presidents Lady
Stampin_Maniac
Favorite books are the Twilight series, any by Mary Higgins Clark, Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, autobiographies, and The Work and the Glory series.
Julie
Favorite books include...East of Eden and all other John Steinbeck works, 1984, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables, Anna Karenina, Rebecca, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Memoirs of a Geisha, Charlotte's Web (and lots of other children's fiction novels)
Holly
Favorite books include Emma, the Harry Potter series, The Little Prince, Taming of the Shrew, Ender's Game, To Kill a Mockingbird, the Twilight series, A Christmas Carol, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Help, The Hunger Games, The Screwtape Letters, OPJB, and all of Bill Peet's children's books.
Deenie Bug
Favorite books are The Quicksilver Pool, Jane Eyre, Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, Moonraker's Bride, Window on the Square, The Secret Garden, Harry Potter series, Lord of the Rings, and Agatha Christie books.
Wendy
Favorite books are A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Oh the places you'll go, 1776, Little Women, Persuasion, The Chronicles of Narnia, Anne of Green Gables, Little House, Christy, and A Lantern in her hand
BreeAnn
Favorite books are To Kill A Mockingbird, Little House on the Prairie, The Notebook, Twilight series, Jane Eyre, Little Women, The Work and the Glory series, anything by Mary Higgins Clark, and A child called it.
Sanya the Duck
Favorite books are Pride and Prejudice, The Good Earth, The Count of Monte Cristo, Harry Potter series, Twilight series, Anne of Green Gables, These is my Words, The Chronicles of Narnia, the Work and the Glory series, and The Kingdom and the Crown series.
Keddy-Weddy
G-Mama
Favorite books are Matilda, Pride and Prejudice, Rebecca, The Hiding Place, The Outsiders, Dealing with Dragons series, Twilight series, The Lord of the Rings series, The Thirteenth Tale, and Emily of New Moon
Stephanie
Favorite books include The Twilight series
Mel
Hare_Bear
Favorite books are the Twilight series and the Harry Potter series
4 comments:
A lot of it. We look back at certain times in history and think how could they have thought that or acted that way... but people will do the same for our generation I'm sure.
We all have our personal belief system but the world as a whole is definitely influenced by the times.
I would say about 50%. The other 50% is done by the society around you. That could include family, school, church, social groups. History is a big part of who a person is. My parents generation has a different viewpoint on the world than I do. I also notice it at school. The younger generation is more open minded than I am-and I thought I was really open minded!
Yep, a lot! Every generation thinks the one before was old fashioned. The world is constantly shifting and we can really only completely understand and respond to a world that we have lived in.
I think the things that are going on in the world at the time and that way you have been brought up can affect a person throughout their life. Most of the southerners were accustomed to slavery and considering the blacks inferior. It took many years and lots of lives lost and injustice committed for that to change. After WWII so many people were horrified by the treatment of the Jews but now so many people don't seem to be affected by it and even in some cases are trying to say it never happened. So many things accepted now days (many that shouldn't) were considered so wrong just 10 or 20 years ago.
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