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Since my brain apparently wants to write 5 Things stories about Captain America some random ideas for you
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Cavendish bananas -- what happened to the Gros Michel?
Sneakers -- those are athletic shoes, why would you wear them on the street?
Hats -- not part of standard dress anymore
Clean streets -- people pick up trash and throw it away. People pick up dog poop!
The Los Angeles Dodgers -- WHAT?!
Lack of smog -- no one uses coal for heat anymore. The city smells different.
Red Delicious Apples -- not delicious, not actually an apple in Steve's opinion
Nutrional Labels -- what the heck am I eating?
Anti-vaccination activism -- Do people not remember polio? Acutally, they don't, Steve
Antipathy to the FDA -- for Steve, the Elixir Sulfanilamide Disaster was 5 years ago.
Plastics -- everywhere, even his shoes. He's used to celluloid and bakelite.
Roombas!
Craft beers -- doesn't ever city have its own brewery or twelve?
Trousers that sit at the hips, not the waist.
Jeans -- those are work pants, not fashion items
Any other ideas about what Steve would have culture shock over?
Fic noodling:
Cavendish bananas -- what happened to the Gros Michel?
Sneakers -- those are athletic shoes, why would you wear them on the street?
Hats -- not part of standard dress anymore
Clean streets -- people pick up trash and throw it away. People pick up dog poop!
The Los Angeles Dodgers -- WHAT?!
Lack of smog -- no one uses coal for heat anymore. The city smells different.
Red Delicious Apples -- not delicious, not actually an apple in Steve's opinion
Nutrional Labels -- what the heck am I eating?
Anti-vaccination activism -- Do people not remember polio? Acutally, they don't, Steve
Antipathy to the FDA -- for Steve, the Elixir Sulfanilamide Disaster was 5 years ago.
Plastics -- everywhere, even his shoes. He's used to celluloid and bakelite.
Roombas!
Craft beers -- doesn't ever city have its own brewery or twelve?
Trousers that sit at the hips, not the waist.
Jeans -- those are work pants, not fashion items
Any other ideas about what Steve would have culture shock over?
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Fruit. Not just the weird flavorless apples they have now, but things like papayas, kiwis, mangoes, avocados - oh, and chili peppers, and cilantro, and lemongrass, and also noodles you eat with a pair of sticks. Bok choy and coconut and animals with tentacles. Seaweed.
Open displays of affection just three pieces of clothing away from intercourse in public. Or just open displays of affection between same-sex couples. Interracial relationships would be something he'd probably know of, but to see the fearlesslness - the comparative amount thereof - would be a sign things are better.
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Still, Thai, Vietnamese, and Japanese food would be exotic to Steve, and the popularity of sushi would just be baffling.
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What will really shock Steve is the *price* of food -- he's from an era where you could get a good meal with pie and coffee afterwards for less than $5.
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Though as long as we're talking money, the near-complete absence of hard cash would be strange.
Mexican and Indian food might be new to him as well.
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Anti-vaccination activism -- Do people not remember polio? Acutally, they don't, Steve.
Antipathy to the FDA -- for Steve, the Elixir Sulfanilamide Disaster was 5 years ago.
I do believe I love you for this post. ^_^
I think in the general idea of shocking dress, though, he might be surprised at how often he sees women in pants? Even as far back as the 60s some schools would send girls home for wearing pants. My mother had to change into a skirt in the milking parlor after helping her father milk the cows, then run for the end of the driveway with her pants folded up between her books for when she got home.
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Yes, I think he would have been familiar with the idea of women wearing pants for things like farm-work and horseback riding, but not for ordinary daywear.
Also, women not wearing gloves in public?
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Yes, thank you!
I also just thought of inhalers - his asthma was probably treated as a nervous condition, and if medicated, medicated with steriods.
And, I was also thinking, the lack of orphanages. Since his day the country's public child welfare system has changed dramatically.
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I was certain that was where they were going in the scene where he wakes up listening to the recorded Dodgers game.
Steve probably wouldn't be surprised that the Republicans are trying to take the New Deal apart-- he remembers how they fought it the first time around-- but he would be astonished that they've convinced so many working-class people to back them up.
Other things:
--Ear piercings are mainstream, even on men.
--Tattoos are mainstream, even on women.
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* People are wearing THAT to church?
* It's a car! Why would you want to put ethanol or old cooking oil into it?
* All those women aren't wearing stockings and they haven't even put on gravy browning and drawn a line in eyebrow pencil!
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And the fact that they are more than three acceptable hairstyle for men! Black men even wear their hair braided, and no one bats an eye.
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Dad was 7 and in Jackson Heights, but:
No street cars.
Supermarkets that sell everything: no going to the butcher's for meat, no going to the greenmarket for fruit and vegetables. No milkman unless it's a fancy 'organic-local' thing. Milk in plastic jugs instead of glass bottles. No ration books.
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As someone from a hometown where I biked everywhere, I share Steve's bafflement over Los Angeles.
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Black people in high-ranking positions, not just in black organisations or local politics.
The number of Asian people in the US.
Lack of unions.
Kids expected to finish high school.
Seasonal produce available all year round.
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The absence of newsreels and shorts when he goes to the movies.
Pacemakers (invented in 1960), coronary bypass surgery (first performed in 1967) and artificial hearts (1978).
DNA fingerprinting (1984) being taken for granted.
Automated teller machines (1969).
Industrial robots (1961) and in-vitro fertilization (1978). When Steve was growing up, both were the stuff of science fiction.
Cellphones (1973).
Smoke detectors (1969).
Music played on synthesizers (1964).
Video games (1962).
Streaming video. Watching what you want when you want, instead of when it's scheduled.
The Braille Glove, which translates sign language into text.
Edible vaccines, built into genetically enhanced tomatoes, potatoes and bananas.
Same-sex marriage being legal in a fair number of countries and a small number of states. (I don't think that he'd see this as a bad thing, but I do think that it would surprise him quite a bit.)
Roleplaying games.
Integrated armed forces. (Truman signed an executive order integrating the U.S. military in 1948, but the last all-black unit didn't disband until 1954.)
Women in the U.S. Armed Forces serving in combat situations.
Women wearing pants and men wearing skirts.
Anti-bullying legislation.
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Craigslistlieder. (Yes, art songs with lyrics from personal ads.)
The LOLCat Bible. Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem.
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Internet radio and podcasts! Since Steve more or less missed the entire television era -- and would have been too poor to have one of the 5000 televisions that were in private hands in the USA by 1942, he probably just accepts that video is on-demand and more surprised that you can play movies and shows on a device that fits in your pocket.
Btw, looking around IMDB, I realized that Steve missed almost the totality of Gene Kelly's movie career, but could have seen him perform live on Broadway!
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Oh, God, yes. He'd be amazed by the idea of movies in your pocket.
I was thinking about radio as he knew it, too. He's used to fifteen-minute serials that you had to turn on at the right time or you'd miss the episode...and now people can not only listen to episodes whenever they want, but watch them as well?
He'd probably be surprised by the passing of the Hays Movie Code, too. (It was in effect until 1968. Check out the link--it will take you the actual Code AND examples of period movies that broke it.)
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Because this is my astronaut icon...
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Long distance, no operator direct dialing would be small thing that made him go ! Also, the food portions, from what I understand.