What time and place would you choose to be born? I wish I was born in the mid-late 40's in America. Problably somewhere like California. I would have loved to have grown up in the 50's and 60's with the better music, better cars, better fashion...that whole culture. It seems like people back then had more respect and values. Instead now everything is just online with facebook etc. people hardly even meet each other face-to-face anymore. I'm not talking about the hippie stuff here either but the good old American dream as potrayed in movies like American Graffitii etc.

Hell no. Right now I'm in pretty much the best time and also in one of the best places in the world to have a good chance at a happy and comfortable life. I wouldn't easily be tempted to trade it for anything.

I'd want to be born sometime in the 1890s and then proceed to live as long as I could in the 20th century. I'd love to have lived through the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, the WWI, Roaring 20s, The Great Depression, WWII, 1950s and the civil rights movement, the 70s and see the presidency of Ronald Reagan, and bookend it with the 90s after living through all of that.

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Haha, yes =)

I love when people complain about the digital age on the internet.

The irony is delicious.

Not really, the internet right now is almost essential, it's not a choice it's a requirement. If the internet didn't exist I certainly wouldn't miss it, I use it because that the world we currently live in.

I'm with Medivh. I pretty much like this time right now. I love the technology of today. Without it, I'm sure I would have never met my husband. I have a hobby that keeps me completely occupied and happy. I've got no reason to want to be anywhere else.

dem gersh darned camputors ne'er werk raait.

and just because we don't say here and now, does that mean we automatically hate the digital age? I don't, I love computers, I look very forward to seeing how the 21st century goes and telling kids what life was like back in the bygone years of 2012 But I also have a personal fascination with the 20th century, and as such would've loved to have seen it with my own eyes, sadly I must contend myself with the 1990s.

Yes, I wish I was born in the 80's, not very sure why, just seems like a cool era to be born, as some people have been telling me. But I wish that I was born in a different country as well.

You may want to do some research about 1950s-60s era America. It seems that you have somewhat rose-colored views of that period. Fallout 3 shows very clearly the hypocrisy and underlying contradictions (that exploded into the violence of 1960s public demonstrations which created some of the changes we have today, but that we still struggle to truly achieve). A movie such as Mona Lisa Smile is very accurate because it was historically researched. There are many similar movies (Come See The Paradise would be another example, or Newsies).

For example, people did not have much respect for each other unless the "other" was in a specifically accepted and acceptable grouping/category.

Another example: marriages of different ethnicities were quite rare before 1960 (and there are still areas where they are viewed dimly by some individuals). Here is a good article about the trends (article from 1998):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/dec98/melt29.htm

Best thing about the 40s and 50s, fully fashioned stockings. And they still make them.

I get what your trying to say, but none of those problems apply to me. I'm white and have no desire to marry outside of my race.

I am proud to say I was born in the 90's, and remember the 90's. I loved it! I wouldn't choose another era, really.

but it is still a fascinating time period all the same, the transition from 1950s to 1960s culture is unique because you're literally watching a mass paradigm shift of culture in less than 20 years people went from rigidly conformist to flamboyantly rebellious. And such shifts were not unique to the 1950s/60s, the same could be said between the 1910s and the 1920s.

one could even argue that it's that case with every single decade of the 20th, that's why I love it so much. The culture of 1900 was radically different from the culture of 1910s, and that was different from 1920s which was different from 1930s, and even after the 60s. the 80s were a very different time from the 70s, and the 90s were very different from the 80s.

but I do agree with you in that people have a very rose-tinted memory of the past. The 1950s were a very crippling time for people who weren't upper-middle class white men living in the suburbs. Even in the 1950s the writing was on the wall that change was on the horizon, and even in the 1960s there was a massive amount of hypocrisy. Many of those same hippies who preached peace and tolerance were very intolerant in their own ways, and after the 1960s there seemed to be this general understanding that we should all be trying to be recreating the 50s rather than learn from its mistakes.

I wish I was born in the intergalactic era!

Although I grumble about a lot of stuff, I'm quite happy I was born when I was. Growing up in the '70s and early '80s was awesome.

@Hagas-Hager:

Your observations apply to all of history, of course.

It would have been neat to grow up in the 20th century

Born in the 80s which is still currently the best years of my life.

I would have liked it if I was born in the 60s.

Not really. This age is much better than any other period in human history.

At least you avoided the Bay City Rollers.

Kinda wish i was born later in the Future.

true, but I find,in my personal opinion, that the 20th century is sort of the apex (excluding the 21st century so far) of human development. Humans accomplished more in the 99 years of 1900-1999 than they did in any other span of 99 years in human history.

but this is strictly my opinion, one could easily believe that applies to the Renaissance, to the Enlightenment, to the Industrial Revolution, to the Greek civilizations, the Roman empire etc. etc.

Being born later would be nice... mostly for space exploration, our first encounter with extraterrestrials, and advances in medicine that greatly prolong human life.

I'm happy with my date of birth though. I feel very privileged to have experienced the 90s as a child, and the rise of the internet.

I wish I was born in my hypothetical future.

Or else, I wish I was born back in, say, the time of the ancient Egyptians, or the Greeks, or the Romans.

Or, hell, back in the time of the first homo sapien sapiens. That'd be pretty cool.