| FACTS about this decade. Population: 226,546,000 Unemployed in 1980: National Debt: 1980 - $914,000,000,000 National Debt: 1986 - $2,000,000,000,000 Average salary: $15,757 Life Expectancy: Male 69.9 Female 77.6 Minimum Wage: $3.10 BMW was $12,000; Mercedes 280 E was $14,800 Attendance: Movies 20 million/week Daily 100 - Interactive quotes from the 80s |
The 1980s became the Me! Me! Me! generation of status seekers. During the 1980s, hostile takeovers, leveraged buyouts, and mega-mergers spawned a new breed of billionaire. Donald Trump, Leona Helmsley, and Ivan Boesky iconed the meteoric rise and fall of the rich and famous. If you've got it, flaunt it and You can have it all! were watchwords. Forbes' list of 400 richest people became more important than its 500 largest companies. Binge buying and credit became a way of life and 'Shop Til you Drop' was the watchword. Labels were everything, even (or especially) for our children. Tom Wolfe dubbed the baby-boomers as the 'splurge generation.' Video games, aerobics, minivans, camcorders, and talk shows became part of our lives. The decade began with double-digit inflation, Reagan declared a war on drugs, Kermit didn't find it easy to be green, hospital costs rose, we lost many, many of our finest talents to AIDS which before the decade ended spread to black and Hispanic women, and unemployment rose. On the bright side, the US Constitution had its 200th birthday, Gone with the Wind turned 50, ET phoned home, and in 1989 Americans gave $115,000,000,000 to charity. And, Internationally, at the very end of the decade the Berlin Wall was removed - making great changes for the decade to come! At the turn of the decade, many were happy to leave the spendthrift 80s for the 90s, although some thought the eighties TOTALLY AWESOME.
The 1980's the generation known for "Me" was about themselves? Not believing that this was in tiredly true.
They were thought to be trying to find their own individuality. 
Their need was to make their way in life. The pervious generations were the ideals of the 50's the freedom of the 60's the dance era of the 70's the 80's used computers to print invitation. 
Computers became part of education, 
Creativity, was a part, the Prince Charming arrived on a white horse, to take his bride away. The world witnessed a Royal wedding. 
Patterns were more available and people planned both home formal and informal weddings. 
It was a time of celebration. 
There were new magazines for brides to use as reference.
The world saw weddings from other Cultures, 
Princess from other nations. The American way changes as we become educated on the other cultures, race, religion. Computers played a big part the beginning of Internet let people research their weddings and see how different marriages operate. 
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