The Sixties

The new genaration

 For a decade that claimed to be all about
peace, the Sixties were remarkably
violent. In America, President Kennedy
was assassinated, followed by his brother.
Reverent Martin Luther King Jr. was shot.
War erupted in Southeast Asia – again
In Britain, troops went to Northern
Ireland in a "limited operation,”
where they remain to this day.
Violence begat violence on campuses
all around the world. And the youth
started making their voices heard
But there was much more to Sixties history than
violence. In fact, the refrain "Make Love, Not
War,” was the true chant of the younger
generation, led by emerging rock bands like The
Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and The Who. And
with these rock bands, Britain re-invaded and
conquered its former colonies; there were times
that American rock bands couldn’t even make it
onto the charts
But if the British conquered America’s music
scene, America slipped in and conquered
the British television and movie scene – at
least for a while. Star Trek and cartoons
like the Flintstones became wildly popular
in Britain, just as they were in the States
Yet again, the Sixties contradicts itself; at the same time
fast food restaurants started to develop the patterns they
still hold today, health food and vegetarianism were
gaining steadily in the eating habits of ordinary people.
Hippies and other socially-conscious groups chose to
eat no meat because they didn’t believe in killing
animals, and they grew food organically because they
believed in harmonizing with their environment
 But the Sixties is where McDonalds
started growing strongly, challenged
by Burger King and Burger Chef, and
when a 65-year-old loser named
Harlan Sanders opened a restaurant
he called Kentucky Fried Chicken.
While some were eating healthier
food than people had ever eaten
before, others were eating food that
would lead to obesity and many other
serious health problems that still exist
today