However, my experience of this change that they put at 1950 is different from my perspective. The big change wasn't just 1950 at the end of World war II but the biggest change I noticed was what the VIET NAM war caused in both men and women in the U.S. Young intelligent men who didn't want to die in a war like the VIET NAM war decided to get what was called a 2S or student deferment from being drafted. Then young women who wanted to marry a college boy also went to college because there were so many boys going to college (unlike before). So, to me, this is the change that changed everything: WAR!
And this change has continued across our nation as these people who married and had their own children and encouraged them to get bachelor's degrees, master's degrees and PHds. This changed everything.
I think one of the biggest causes of this perceptual change was actually caused by Television which only began to be a really big influence in the 1950s. It made people now in their 70s want to travel the world and meet people with different beliefs than themselves. So, this cultural change also helped prevent global thermonuclear war too by making friends worldwide from my generation traveling the world more and more.
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https://intuitivefred888.blogspot.com/2024/10/literacy-from-wikipedia-interesting.html
Literacy is the ability to read and write. Some researchers suggest that the study of "literacy" as a concept can be divided into two periods: the period before 1950, when literacy was understood solely as alphabetical literacy (word and letter recognition); and the period after 1950, when literacy slowly began to be considered as a wider concept and process, including the social and cultural aspects of reading and writing[1] and functional literacy.[2][3]
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