Then someone told me that food rationing didn't end until 1954 and I went o.O.
Yeah, I think I discovered that last year, and had basically the exact same reaction. For the same reasons. We share so much culture--books, TV, movie stars, celebrity watching--that I'd never really before considered how different our countries' experiences of the second half of the twentieth century actually were. I'm embarrassed to realize how much I'd glossed over, in my head, how devastated all of Europe was.
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Date: 2012-07-16 10:08 pm (UTC)Yeah, I think I discovered that last year, and had basically the exact same reaction. For the same reasons. We share so much culture--books, TV, movie stars, celebrity watching--that I'd never really before considered how different our countries' experiences of the second half of the twentieth century actually were. I'm embarrassed to realize how much I'd glossed over, in my head, how devastated all of Europe was.