What major social barrier will fall in the next 50yrs? (Womans Lib, Civil Rights, ..)

[JEDI]

..Gay marriage

seems like every 50yrs or so a major social barrier falls.

Whats next?

 

[theeedude]

Voting Rights Act restored after SCOTUS composition changes.

 

[norseamd]

great ape personhood

or animal personhood altogether

 

[Greenman]

Don't know what it will be, but I'd like to see parents raising their own children again.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Androids or thinking machines. Should they vote and how should their reproduction be curtailed since they could make unlimited copies of themselves. What if artificial intelligence becomes better or more moral leaders than humans?

 

[norseamd]

extended families are a better way. multi generational families not only have more eyes to take care of people but a much wider range of experience and opinions. the whole american nuclear family experience might be responsable for a lot of the problems of americans

 

[norseamd]

Androids or thinking machines. Should they vote and how should their reproduction be curtailed since they could make unlimited copies of themselves. What if artificial intelligence becomes better or more moral leaders that humans?

that might be further down the road since ai will likely be a gradual development

 

[Carson Dyle]

WTF is a "social barrier"???

 

[CanOWorms]

white privilege

 

[Brainonska511]

Man-toaster love will finally be recognized.

 

[RampantAndroid]

Voting Rights Act restored after SCOTUS composition changes.

Methinks you don't know how the judiciary works.

 

[Nebor]

white privilege

Who will be the new privileged class?

 

[norseamd]

Who will be the new privileged class?

mixed race of east asians and south asians?

 

[Texashiker]

What major social barrier will fall in the next 50yrs?

I think equal access to higher education will be the next social barrier to fall.

Oppressive college debt will be a thing of the past.

As other nations outpace the US in everything, and the US slips from being a world leader, something will have to give. For the US to keep its position as a world leader, we need to make higher education free to all.

 

[RampantAndroid]

I think equal access to higher education will be the next social barrier to fall.

Oppressive college debt will be a thing of the past.

As other nations outpace the US in everything, and the US slips from being a world leader, something will have to give. For the US to keep its position as a world leader, we need to make higher education free to all.

Maybe we can stop pushing a BA/BS degree as the be all end all degree, too. Stop the people who go to college solely to party and make it more of a merit based system like in Germany where if you have the grades and aptitude to go to college, you go virtually free of charge. If you don't have the grades, you go to a 2 year school (or if what you want to do for a living only needs a 2 year, you do that.)

 

[xaeniac]

I think equal access to higher education will be the next social barrier to fall.

Oppressive college debt will be a thing of the past.

As other nations outpace the US in everything, and the US slips from being a world leader, something will have to give. For the US to keep its position as a world leader, we need to make higher education free to all.

Interesting, how much will a Big Mac cost then?? How do you envision this being payed for?

 

[DominionSeraph]

Who will be the new privileged class?

Non-racists.

 

[gevorg]

polygamy

 

[Nebor]

Non-racists.

One ethnic group will always be on top.

If it's the east Asians, do you really think they aren't racist? They're extraordinarily xenophobic and racist. Racism has been a selected evolutionary trait for far too long to see it gone in the span of a couple hundred years.

 

[CanOWorms]

Who will be the new privileged class?

There won't be one.

I just put down the biggest privilege that needs to be eradicated. Really, all privileges, be it white, male, class, etc. need to be eliminated. There may not be a group of people we recognize today as being a privileged class.

 

[OverVolt]

There won't be one.

I just put down the biggest privilege that needs to be eradicated. Really, all privileges, be it white, male, class, etc. need to be eliminated. There may not be a group of people we recognize today as being a privileged class.

Ummmmm you can't possibly be this naive, right?

 

[CanOWorms]

Ummmmm you can't possibly be this naive, right?

It's not unrealistic to dismantle privileges. Additionally, much of what I said was not definitive. For example, I said there MAY not be a group of people we recognize today.

 

[OverVolt]

It's not unrealistic to dismantle privileges. Additionally, much of what I said was not definitive. For example, I said there MAY not be a group of people we recognize today.

Well you could brush up on your sociology on wiki I suppose.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_stratification

First question of the wiki talks page

Stratification universal?

“While these hierarchies are not universal to all societies, they are the norm among state-level cultures (as distinguished from hunter-gatherers or other social arrangements).”

Why have I seen books that state that social stratification is universal? 69.221.229.125 15:50, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Many reasons...

Because most surviving societies are stratified. Non-stratified societies are rare--mostly because they're usually conquered by more warlike neighbours. It's likely they were once far more numerous for much of human history, before mass warfare became common.
Because not everyone who writes a book about human society knows what they are talking about. Everybody from Plato to Dr. Phil has had something to say about society, but most of the time they are speaking from opinion, not from objective study. Even objective social sciences like psychology and economics tend to overlook non-stratified, non-state cultures because...(see the next reason)
Because members of stratified societies have stratified prejudices, and don't pay much attention to non-state societies. If they don't have writing, architecture, money, and warfare, they don't count as civilizations as far as most people are concerned.
Hunter-gatherer societies can be stratified or non-stratified; but it's hard to tell them apart when they're all lumped together by many social commentators. It's easier to assume they're all stratified.

I'm sure there are other possible reasons. But does this address the question?--Pariah 06:27, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

 

[Nebor]

There won't be one.

I just put down the biggest privilege that needs to be eradicated. Really, all privileges, be it white, male, class, etc. need to be eliminated. There may not be a group of people we recognize today as being a privileged class.

I disagree with everything you said. Also, I believe you live in a fairy land where we're all going to get together and sing kumbaya while we hold hands, and no one uses their military might to exploit other disadvantaged people elsewhere in the world. It's like you expect humans to stop being human in the next 50 years.

 

[CanOWorms]

I disagree with everything you said. Also, I believe you live in a fairy land where we're all going to get together and sing kumbaya while we hold hands, and no one uses their military might to exploit other disadvantaged people elsewhere in the world. It's like you expect humans to stop being human in the next 50 years.

That actually makes me happy.