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AP U.S. History 4.4 Period 8: 1945-1980. What cultural trend is described in the excerpt?
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- 00:03
And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by the sexual revolution which
- 00:08
was a movement in the 60s to 80s as well as a more fun way of saying puberty yeah [Man transforms into young child and adolescent]
- 00:14
and I take a look at the passage.....
- 00:27
The cultural trend described in the excerpt was what and here your potential answers
- 00:38
it's funny to think of the phrase homogeneous mass being used to describe
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- 00:43
a group of people instead of say yeah you know tablespoon of peanut butter but [Peanut butter on tablespoon]
- 00:47
it actually fits there was a fear of being perceived as different at the time
- 00:51
as evidenced in the nineteen fifty-six film invasion of the Body Snatchers a [Advert for invasion of body snatchers appears]
- 00:57
horror movie about aliens taking over human bodies and hiding in plain sight
- 01:01
it was a documentary yeah okay but was the emphasis on homogenate II a result
- 01:09
of the sexual revolution now the sexual revolution didn't come until a few years [People protesting on sexual revolution]
- 01:14
later and was actually a response to the whole let's all be the same and totally
- 01:18
boring thing going on at the time nor was it a reaction to women in the
- 01:22
workforce because well most women weren't really joining the workforce but
- 01:26
instead raising all those babies they'd made back home and the burgeoning [Lots of babies sitting on a couch]
- 01:30
private sector actually aided the trend described in the excerpt it wasn't
- 01:34
derailed by it see the invasion of the Body Snatchers movie was actually
- 01:38
talking about communism as well as the paranoia it induced the hidden aliens [Nikita appears from room of items]
- 01:43
represented hidden communist and the film's characters desperately trying to
- 01:47
uncover these aliens represented the paranoid attempts to out all undercover
- 01:52
commies and all because of the anxiety surrounding the Cold War and fears that
- 01:56
it wasn't quite over people wanted to exhibit their love for capitalism love
- 02:00
in America in order to let everyone know that they definitely weren't Body
- 02:04
Snatchers or communist long story short you didn't want people thinking you were [Joseph McCarthy points to alien]
- 02:08
an alien or a communist although during the Red Scare it was probably safer to
- 02:12
be a blood sucking alien
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