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title: "109 Half Century Quotes by 101 authors"
description: "Browse 109 Half Century quotes by 101 authors. Discover the best Half Century sayings and thoughts."
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> [The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henry-a-wallace/the-wisdom-of-our-actions-in-the-first-three-years-of-peace-will/)

[Henry A. Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henry-a-wallace/)

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> [A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frances-parkinson-keyes/a-half-century-of-living-should-put-a-good-deal-into-a-person-s-face/)

[Frances Parkinson Keyes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frances-parkinson-keyes/)

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> [“Half a century goes by in what seems like a year. Don't waste an hour in boredom, son, or wishing for tomorrow.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dean-koontz/half-a-century-goes-by-in-what-seems-like-a-year-don-t-waste-an-hour/)

[Dean Koontz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dean-koontz/)

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> [A friendship will be young after the lapse of half a century; a passion is old at the end of three months.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sophie-swetchine/a-friendship-will-be-young-after-the-lapse-of-half-a-century-a/)

[Sophie Swetchine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sophie-swetchine/)

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> [Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-meier/rome-has-not-seen-a-modern-building-in-more-than-half-a-century-it-is/)

[Richard Meier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-meier/)

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> [Since creation of the E.U. a half century ago, Europe has enjoyed the longest period of peace in its history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-bruton/since-creation-of-the-e-u-a-half-century-ago-europe-has-enjoyed-the/)

[John Bruton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-bruton/)

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> [It took capitalism half a century to come back from the Great Depression.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-shapiro/it-took-capitalism-half-a-century-to-come-back-from-the-great/)

[Ben Shapiro](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-shapiro/)

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> [Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-mountbatten/men-o-war-were-to-be-a-part-of-the-fabric-of-my-life-for-the-next/)

[Lord Mountbatten](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-mountbatten/)

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> [“After a half century of ministry, F. J. Hallett claimed that in the actual work of a parish, the most successful leader…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-oswald-sanders-2/after-a-half-century-of-ministry-f-j-hallett-claimed-that-in-the/)

[J Oswald Sanders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-oswald-sanders-2/)

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> [Our rulers for more than half a century have made sure that we are never to be told the truth about anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gore-vidal/our-rulers-for-more-than-half-a-century-have-made-sure-that-we-are/)

[Gore Vidal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gore-vidal/)

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> [“When Warren Buffett talks about competing against only half of the population, I think about her and wonder how different her life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sheryl-sandberg/when-warren-buffett-talks-about-competing-against-only-half-of-the/)

[Sheryl Sandberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sheryl-sandberg/)

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> [“The majority of American women have demanded over the last half century that society reject and revise traditional norms about what women…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-marie-slaughter/the-majority-of-american-women-have-demanded-over-the-last-half/)

[Anne-Marie Slaughter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-marie-slaughter/)

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> [79 senators, including that great conservative Elizabeth Warren, said they didn't like the medical device tax, so we will go at that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mitch-mcconnell/79-senators-including-that-great-conservative-elizabeth-warren-said/)

[Mitch McConnell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mitch-mcconnell/)

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> [Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kenzaburo-oe/even-though-we-now-have-the-half-century-old-new-constitution-there/)

[Kenzaburo Oe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kenzaburo-oe/)

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> [My fellow Black Americans are expected to fit a certain mold and think a certain way. We've been socially conditioned to blindly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vernon-jones/my-fellow-black-americans-are-expected-to-fit-a-certain-mold-and/)

[Vernon Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vernon-jones/)

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> [Me stash box never empty. The fifty dollar bag we call that half century. Me start me own herb documentary. Bermy man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/collie-buddz/me-stash-box-never-empty-the-fifty-dollar-bag-we-call-that-half/)

[Collie Buddz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/collie-buddz/)

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> [We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-mckibben/we-all-of-us-in-the-first-world-have-participated-in-something-of-a/)

[Bill McKibben](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-mckibben/)

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> [“If there is one central intellectual reality at the end of the twentieth century, it is that the biological approach to psychiatry--treating…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-shorter/if-there-is-one-central-intellectual-reality-at-the-end-of-the/)

Edward Shorter

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> [There is some evidence that average wave heights are slowly rising, and that freak waves of eighty or ninety feet are becoming…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sebastian-junger/there-is-some-evidence-that-average-wave-heights-are-slowly-rising/)

[Sebastian Junger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sebastian-junger/)

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> [Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-jefferson/indeed-we-need-not-look-back-half-a-century-to-times-which-many-now/)

[Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-jefferson/)

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> [Leaving wasn't a personal thing where I intentionally wanted to stick it to management or anyone. This is business. I felt I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-belle/leaving-wasn-t-a-personal-thing-where-i-intentionally-wanted-to-stick/)

[Albert Belle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-belle/)

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> [In Cuba, our experiment is not the best democracy and should not be a reference to anybody elses, it is ours. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alejandro-castro-espin/in-cuba-our-experiment-is-not-the-best-democracy-and-should-not-be-a/)

[Alejandro Castro Espin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alejandro-castro-espin/)

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> [I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-fagen/i-tried-to-grow-up-honest-didn-t-quite-happen-i-guess-i-m-someone-for/)

[Donald Fagen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-fagen/)

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> [“The triumph of plainsong, of polyphony, and of truly liturgical organ playing, in the first half century of his life, represented for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-e-frazier/the-triumph-of-plainsong-of-polyphony-and-of-truly-liturgical-organ/)

James E. Frazier

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> [“Fantasy and science fiction are closely allied in publishing, since both categories posit worlds that are not reality. The SF editor is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-g-hartwell/fantasy-and-science-fiction-are-closely-allied-in-publishing-since/)

[David G. Hartwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-g-hartwell/)

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> [“Al-Kind¯ı (ca. 800 – ca. 870), the first to develop philosophical thought as such in Arabic, was a polymath in the translated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dimitri-gutas/al-kind-ca-800-ca-870-the-first-to-develop-philosophical-thought-as/)

[Dimitri Gutas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dimitri-gutas/)

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> [“There are two visions of America a half century from now. One is of a society more divided between the haves and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-e-stiglitz/there-are-two-visions-of-america-a-half-century-from-now-one-is-of-a/)

[Joseph E. Stiglitz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-e-stiglitz/)

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> [“Here is where Taylor locates the most significant shift in the post-’60s West: while ideals of tolerance have always been present in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-k-a-smith/here-is-where-taylor-locates-the-most-significant-shift-in-the-post/)

[James K.A. Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-k-a-smith/)

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> [“Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn/over-a-half-century-ago-while-i-was-still-a-child-i-recall-hearing-a/)

[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn/)

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> [“In the past half century, however, an impressive body of formal theory has been erected by mathematical statisticians and economists to help…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-simon/in-the-past-half-century-however-an-impressive-body-of-formal-theory/)

[Herbert Simon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-simon/)

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> [“Inclusion on race has been a very different journey, and I worry that for all the progress we have made, we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dan-rather/inclusion-on-race-has-been-a-very-different-journey-and-i-worry-that/)

[Dan Rather](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dan-rather/)

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> [“The west, and especially the United States, has shown no serious or sustained interest in the Middle East until the last half…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-e-fuller/the-west-and-especially-the-united-states-has-shown-no-serious-or/)

[Graham E. Fuller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-e-fuller/)

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> [“Although, approximately 2,800 of the Kennedy assassination documents have been released, only 52 files have not been previously seen. It comes as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/captain-hank-bracker-the-exciting-story-of-cuba-2/although-approximately-2-800-of-the-kennedy-assassination-documents/)

Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba

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> [“I have been accused of a habit of changing my opinions. I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bertrand-russell/i-have-been-accused-of-a-habit-of-changing-my-opinions-i-am-not/)

[Bertrand Russell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bertrand-russell/)

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> [“The attachment voids experienced by immigrant children are profound. The hardworking parents are focused on supporting their families economically and, unfamiliar with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabor-mat/the-attachment-voids-experienced-by-immigrant-children-are-profound/)

[Gabor Maté](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabor-mat/)

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> [“Dr. Urbino caught the parrot around the neck with a triumphant sigh: ça y est. But he released him immediately because the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/dr-urbino-caught-the-parrot-around-the-neck-with-a-triumphant-sigh-a/)

[Gabriel García Márquez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gabriel-garc-a-m-rquez/)

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> [“A half century after Nidetch’s Mallomar binges, scientists had developed a technology that could see cravings erupting, like solar flares, inside the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-schatzker/a-half-century-after-nidetch-s-mallomar-binges-scientists-had/)

[Mark Schatzker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-schatzker/)

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> [“For half a century he had stood too close to darkness, and some it crept into his bones.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/max-gladstone/for-half-a-century-he-had-stood-too-close-to-darkness-and-some-it/)

[Max Gladstone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/max-gladstone/)

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> [Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pierre-l-van-den-berghe/sociology-seems-to-have-missed-every-intellectually-promising-boat-in/)

Pierre L. van den Berghe

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> [We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/neale-donald-walsch/we-ve-seen-in-the-last-half-century-an-incredible-shift-this-is-just/)

[Neale Donald Walsch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/neale-donald-walsch/)

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                        "text": "Leaving wasn't a personal thing where I intentionally wanted to stick it to management or anyone. This is business. I felt I should have been rewarded for helping the Indians turn around a half century of losing. It was a shame they decided to treat me that way, after all I did for them. I helped this team go from one-hundred six losses to basically one-hundred six wins and into the World Series. And what do I get for it? Nothing.",
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                        "text": "In Cuba, our experiment is not the best democracy and should not be a reference to anybody elses, it is ours. It has worked for us and the clearest evidence that our democracy has worked is that there is a revolution that has continued after a half century of facing down the most powerful empire. This has not happened many times in history.",
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                        "text": "I tried to grow up. Honest. Didn’t quite happen. I guess I’m someone for whom youth still seems more real than the present, or the half century in between. And why not? I'm deeply underwhelmed by most contemporary art, literature, music, films, TV, the heinous little phones, money talk, real estate talk, all that stuff. The Internet, which at first seemed so fascinating, appears to be evolving into something even worse than TV, but we'll see.",
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                        "text": "“The triumph of plainsong, of polyphony, and of truly liturgical organ playing, in the first half century of his life, represented for Duruflé the victory of a transcendent, hieratic worldview over the secular and popular aberrations ushered in by the nineteenth century. Their demise in the 1960s meant more than the loss of a well-regarded musical tradition; it was also an assault on the worldview that gave his life meaning.”",
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                        "text": "“Fantasy and science fiction are closely allied in publishing, since both categories posit worlds that are not reality. The SF editor is most often a fantasy editor as well. Yet the most useful view for the working editor is to consider fantasy as conservative and pastoral, and SF as radical, technological, urban. There is a spectrum of variations, especially considering that for at least the last half century, many of the same authors have written both, a legacy, again, of the pulp magazines, which published both in the early twentieth century, before the battle lines were clearly drawn.”",
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                        "text": "“Al-Kind¯ı (ca. 800 – ca. 870), the first to develop philosophical thought as such in Arabic, was a polymath in the translated sciences and very much a product of his age. Like other scientists of his time, he gathered around him a wide circle of individuals capable of advising him on various issues and translating the relevant texts. He commissioned translations of scientific subjects and he himself wrote on all the sciences: astrology, astronomy, arithmetic, geometry, music, and medicine – he even has a treatise on swords.36 This broad and synoptic view of all sciences, along with the spirit of encyclopedism fostered by the translation movement for the half century before his time, led him to an overarching vision of the unity and interrelatedness of all knowledge. At the same time, and as a result of this view, he developed a unitary epistemological approach – namely, that of mathematics. His goal became to approach mathematical accuracy in his argumentation; influenced by both Ptolemy and Euclid, he held mathematical or geometrical proof to be of the highest order”",
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                        "text": "“There are two visions of America a half century from now. One is of a society more divided between the haves and the have-nots, a country in which the rich live in gated communities, send their children to expensive schools, and have access to first-rate medical care. Meanwhile, the rest live in a world marked by insecurity, at best mediocre education, and in effect rationed health care―they hope and pray they don't get seriously sick. At the bottom are millions of young people alienated and without hope. I have seen that picture in many developing countries; economists have given it a name, a dual economy, two societies living side by side, but hardly knowing each other, hardly imagining what life is like for the other. Whether we will fall to the depths of some countries, where the gates grow higher and the societies split farther and farther apart, I do not know. It is, however, the nightmare towards which we are slowly marching.”",
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                        "text": "“Here is where Taylor locates the most significant shift in the post-’60s West: while ideals of tolerance have always been present in the modern social imaginary, in earlier forms (Locke, the early American republic, etc.) this value was contained and surrounded by other values that were a scaffolding of formation (e.g., the citizen ethic; p. 484). What erodes in the last half century is precisely these limits on individual fulfillment (p. 485). The Place of the Sacred in Our Secular Age What is the “imagined place of the sacred” in a society governed by expressivist individualism (p. 486)? Taylor has already hinted that such a society seems to forge its own “festive” rendition of the sacred — “moments of fusion in a common action/feeling, which both wrench us out of the everyday, and seem to put us in touch with something exceptional, beyond ourselves.”",
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                        "text": "“Over a half century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of old people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: \"Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.\" Since then I have spent well-nigh 50 years working on the history of our revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: \"Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.”",
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                        "text": "“In the past half century, however, an impressive body of formal theory has been erected by mathematical statisticians and economists to help us reason about these matters-without introducing a new kind of logic. The basic idea of this theory is to load all values into a single function, the utility function, in this way finessing the question of how different values are to be compared. The comparison has in effect already been made when it is assumed that a utility has been assigned to each particular state of affairs. This formal theory is called subjective expected utility (SEU) theory. Its construction is one of the impressive intellectual achievements of the first half of the twentieth century. It is an elegant machine for applying reason to problems of choice.”",
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                        "text": "“Inclusion on race has been a very different journey, and I worry that for all the progress we have made, we are stuck in the purgatory of tolerance. This may not be a comfortable thought for many who pride themselves on their progressive beliefs, but it is the truth. We have of late seen evidence of a great racial divide that remains, and in some ways even appears to be expanding, more than a half century after the major legislative victories in the civil rights movement. While tragedies like the high-profile shootings of African Americans at the hands of law enforcement get a lot of deserved attention, these are symptoms of a much deeper problem. We are still largely segregated as a society, and our political divisions increasingly fall along the lines of race.”",
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                        "text": "“The attachment voids experienced by immigrant children are profound. The hardworking parents are focused on supporting their families economically and, unfamiliar with the language and customs of their new society, they are not able to orient their children with authority or confidence. Peers are often the only people available for such children to latch on to. Thrust into a peer-oriented culture, immigrant families may quickly disintegrate. The gulf between child and parent can widen to the point that becomes unbridgeable. Parents of these children lose their dignity, their power, and their lead. Peers ultimately replace parents and gangs increasingly replace families. Again, immigration or the necessary relocation of people displaced by war or economic misery is not the problem. Transplanted to peer-driven North American society, traditional cultures succumb. We fail our immigrants because of our own societal failure to preserve the child-parent relationship. In some parts of the country one still sees families, often from Asia, join together in multigenerational groups for outings. Parents, grandparents, and even frail great-grandparents mingle, laugh, and socialize with their children and their children's offspring. Sadly, one sees this only among relatively recent immigrants. As youth become incorporated into North American society, their connections with their elders fade. They distance themselves from their families. Their icons become the artificially created and hypersexualized figures mass-marketed by Hollywood and the U.S. music industry. They rapidly become alienated from the cultures that have sustained their ancestors for generation after generation. As we observe the rapid dissolution of immigrant families under the influence of the peer-oriented society, we witness, as if on fast-forward video, the cultural meltdown we ourselves have suffered in the past half century. It would be encouraging to believe that other parts of the world will successfully resist the trend toward peer orientation. The opposite is likely to be the case as the global economy exerts its corrosive influences on traditional cultures on other continents. Problems of teenage alienation are now widely encountered in countries that have most closely followed upon the American model — Britain, Australia, and Japan. We may predict similar patterns elsewhere to result from economic changes and massive population shifts. For example, stress-related disorders are proliferating among Russian children. According to a report in the New York Times, since the collapse of the Soviet Union a little over a decade ago, nearly a third of Russia's estimated 143 million people — about 45 million — have changed residences. Peer orientation threatens to become one of the least welcome of all American cultural exports.”",
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