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always important to remind ourselves that what we consider normal and outrageous is often a quite recent phenomenon (and also vastly different across social groups even in the present). While I can't predict detail, I am 100% with this prediction: in 200 years, should we still be around, people will look at our ways of handling things as outrageous, and this will include things we find completely unremarkable and wouldn't give a second thought to.

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An interesting study would be “outrage” culture. It seems that social media and global connections certainly exacerbated our feeling of seeing or being closer to other cultures and countries. And feeling that what is different can be scary.

It may also have started with the industrialization and its effects on becoming aware of stuff outside your locale, and ofcourse missionary work in the colonized world.

From local accents, local customs, local dresscodes that pretty disappeared in these two hundred odd years. Only recently do we see lots of reclamations and restoration of that (and sometimes a form neoism where the original as completely disappeared)

People of the past traveling to the future would think the same about us.

Half a century ago, homosexually was outrageous. Today it is heteronormativity which is considered as outrageous. That's a 180° change.

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