How many of you actually think of the 20th century as a different century.?

Question

I was born in 1975, so I don't really think of the 20th century as being different. I actually consider myself still in the 20th century (even though technically, I'm not). How many of you feel this way? How do your parents think? And at what point to people start to realize that they are in a different century?

Add: For example, many historians consider WWI as the start of the Twentieth Century, with technological advances coming around that time that defined the 20th, like cars and flight.

The years 1900-1914 were more like the 19th century.

So what I'm saying is that right now, nothing spectacular (like a cure for cancer) has happened to separate this new century from the last.

Answer 1

Theodore White, the author of "Making of a President", said people really only care about three issues. The issues were war and peace, black and white (race), and bread and butter (economics).
I believe 9/11 defined our views on war and peace more than anything in my lifetime. I was born a little after WW 2.
The immigration crisis has done a lot to polarize attitudes about our neighbors.
Logically, I think energy prices are overrated as an economic factor. However, oil has become a great geopolitical focus in the U.S., Far East, Europe, and Middle East. It has become the common denominator that food was in the last century.

Answer 2

I was born in 1952, so I've lived thru the last half of the 20th and into the 21 century. Strange as it may seem, you are correct, there's no real difference. Sure things have changed globally ,but all in all, we continue on as we did in the last century.

Live, Laugh and Love, the True Necessities!

Answer 3

It's a gradual effect, of course, as the number of living people who lived in the previous century becomes less and less relative to the total number of people living.

It's the same with every era and with every generation and the one that came before, and the one that comes after.

Answer 4

Real time isn't linear - it's all ever present.