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By Paul du Quenoy

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Htm>, HISTORY IN DISPUTE, VOLUME 17: TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPEAN SOCIAL AND POUTICAL MOVEMENTS, SECOND SERIES 5 nous peoples of former European colonies gained rights that had been denied them in the days of colonial rule. With the emergence of independent nations in Africa and Asia, and in particular with Cold War concerns motivating leaders on both sides of the Iron Curtain, fashionable racism and ethnic discrimination fell out of fashion. Not all racial and ethnic hostility disappeared, obviously, but among citizens of the most powerful nations such was no longer viewed as acceptable.

Even for the wealthy elite of the West the end of the century has brought a host of problems. The gap between rich and poor appears to be increasing yet again, and many nations are reevaluating social programs that have extended beyond their ability to maintain. The common measure of economic health, "gross domestic product," has itself come into question as a useful barometer of prosperity. Does the speed of growth truly matter if it is accompanied by pollution, the destruction of natural resources, congestion, the breakup of the community, longer working hours, less family time, and the abandonment of the old, ill, and infirm?

Our modern gadgets give us the illusion of ease and self-sufficiency; we need no longer depend on anyone—consequently we find ourselves increasingly alone. " In terms of scope, humanity's most monumental twentieth-century discovery is that it has the ability to destroy itself. We may even possess a variety of options on how: nuclear Armageddon, environmental catastrophe, or biological and chemical warfare. C. References Jean-Richard Bloch, Destin du siecle (Paris: Rieder, 1931). Martin Gilbert, A History of the Twentieth Century (New York: Perennial, 2000).

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