How different was life in the 1930s/1940s REALLY?
When reading books about life in the 1930s/1940s, seeing movies, talking to people, etc, one sometimes gets a very positive view of how things were like back then. Somehow nostalgia sets in and one starts to think that people were better back then, more polite, friendlier, etc. Life wasnt easier but it was calmer, quieter, etc. I wonder how much difference there really is between daily life back then and now, and Im not talking about the poverty and harshness, but the attitudes, how people behaved, how streets looked, how people dated, etc. Behaviour in general, was the thin layer of farnish we call civilization thicker back then?
