#cultural-shifts

#cultural-shifts

The impressionists, a derogatory label they would later adopt with pride, saw worth and beauty everywhere: a garlic seller or a ballet dancer or a baby nephew deserved immortalising as much as Jesus or Napoleon.

With nearly 80% of homes welcoming pets, Argentina's capital has emerged as a leader in global pet ownership, reflecting shifting societal norms and economic challenges.

Estrangement from family, particularly between adult children and their parents, has become more common, with a notable decrease in the associated stigma.

One major difference that is tough to even remember, let alone to describe to someone who didn't live through it, was how parochial information was back then. Take any obscure factoid, for example: What happened downtown this afternoon? Where was a certain rock star born? Who was the goaltender on the 1980 Swedish Olympic team? Today, you can call it up in a matter of seconds; back then, you had to either have the knowledge, have someone who did, or have access to people or resources that did. Otherwise, you shrugged and went on with your day. There was no falling down Wikipedia rabbit holes.

Please don't get married. The reason why you're seeing marriage rates and birth rates decline is because, for the first time in human history, women have had more agency.

According to the survey, while the average ideal age to get married is 26.5, many respondents believe there's no universal best age for major milestones.

The term midlife crisis, coined in 1965 by Elliott Jaques, originally referred to individuals in their middle 30s, but now encompasses a broader age range due to increased life expectancy and shifting cultural dynamics.

In hubris and in folly, conservatism had wasted its moment and let a generational opportunity slip away. Could it happen again?

You need to embrace the natural redness intensifying your beauty, especially as society shifts towards authentic expressions of emotion over the previously held ideals of cyborgian perfection.

During Justin Welby's almost 12 years as Archbishop of Canterbury, regular attendance at Church of England services has continued to decline, despite multiple evangelistic efforts to re-engage the faithful. In 2012, shortly before his appointment, attendance exceeded one million but had dwindled to just 685,000 by 2023. This decline is part of a broader trend observed in the 2021 census, which revealed that less than half the population of England and Wales now identifies as Christian.

"Too often, rural equals white in the popular imagination. But in reality, one in five Americans lives in rural areas, and nearly a quarter of those are people of color," said Xavier Morales, executive director of The Praxis Project, dismantling the myth that rural America is overwhelmingly white.