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To: goldworldnet who wrote (100902)	4/10/2005 3:58:23 PM
From: cosmicforce	Respond to of 108807

There were neighborhoods where it was always a good idea to lock the door and I'd say that was the majority. When women went to work outside the home, things changed. You couldn't break into someone's house because there would be someone home. The move to out of home workplaces meant homes were empty. In urban environments it was always a good idea to lock the door. I think there was a period in 40 to the 60s where it was possible to find suburban neighborhoods and rural towns, made possible by the automobile and the train, where people of like values could find things as you did. It really wasn't unwound by the 1960's as ManyMoose feels but the decay of urban cores and massive immigration of people who came from other places for largely economic reasons. If we'd have spent the money we spent on killing people in Viet Nam and other venues on building economies in places like the Middle East and Mexico, many of these people would not have left their home countries... Multiculturalism is a two edge sword: it brings with it the richness of many kinds of furniture, culture, cuisine and arts, but it also brings with it people who are dispossessed and not buying into the insular lifestyle that existed briefly in the period you pine for. Those times in many respects were boring and repressive for people such as me who were unconventional and didn't want to wear white shirts and horn-rimmed glasses, sipping cocktails on Saturday night with other, equally boring people. I'm thankful that I work with a quilt of people because until the 1960's everyone looked, thought and acted the same. Those that didn't suffered this boredom, were faced with visits by the FBI and charged with being Un-American.