Born in the wrong era

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Do you ever think you were born in the wrong era?

I feel like I belong to Medieval China or Victorian Paris/London.

How about you?

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I often feel I should have been in the 1930's and 40's.

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Only if I would have been born a man. I can't think of a worse fate than being a woman in medieval China.
I love studding history, especially the medieval period, but there is no better time to be a born a woman than now if you live in the US or most parts of Europe.

This is what the feet of Chinese women looked like pre-1900's

http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/images/bndfeet2.jpg

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Chai Tea wrote:

I often feel I should have been in the 1930's and 40's.

Me too! Maybe even the 20's. Probably more the 20's and 30's now that I think about it.

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http://www.nativeamericans.com/Sioux_Chief_-_Sitting_Bull.gif

I believe I belong to native american tribes of about 300 years ago.

I truly think that my last life was spent with a tribe.. I dont know wich.

My family right now has some Cherokee blood in it and I hang on it like mad woman.

I have a pull to that time I cant explain.. and if I could be 're-born' some where, and remember it.. I would choose a tribe before the anglo people arrived..

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I'm quite happy to be living in the 21st century.

Air Conditioning.

Central Heat.

Refrigeration.

Safe water.

OSHA.

Supermarkets.

Antibiotics.

Vaccines.

Indoor plumbing.

The list goes on....

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Green Witch wrote:

This is what the feet of Chinese women looked like pre-1900's

And your point is?

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material girl wrote:

Green Witch wrote:

This is what the feet of Chinese women looked like pre-1900's

And your point is?

The point is there is nothing as fun to a 5 year old girl than to have her feet broken and bound up for the rest of her life, deformed.

Ouch.

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perhaps what she means is that's not the time she might choose to live in, but the time she was meant to live in.

I think living in the 30's would suck in many ways...somehow I just feel I belong there.

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Depression era? Why?!?!?

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Like I said, it isn't like a matter of choice.

If I could choose, it certainly wouldn't be then. The question was do you ever feel you were born in the wrong era.

Is there is such a thing as coming back, perhaps that's where I lived my last incarnation. The timing would certainly be right.

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shewolfnm wrote:

I would choose a tribe before the anglo people arrived..

I have a friend who is 50% Seneca, he refers to Europeans as "the boat people".

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Bella Dea wrote:

material girl wrote:
Green Witch wrote:

This is what the feet of Chinese women looked like pre-1900's

And your point is?

The point is there is nothing as fun to a 5 year old girl than to have her feet broken and bound up for the rest of her life, deformed.

Ouch.

I was just being silly.
That is indeed a very painful and horrific thing to do to anybody.I think foot binding only stopped in the 1930's!

Interesting how only a woman has posted about 'a horrible time to be a woman', no men have found an era they wouldnt like.

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I thought I did....

Any time before antibiotics.

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I think fashions should come back from days gone by.Its such a shame fashion has gone downhill for men.

Id love to see men dressed as well as they did in the 30's,40's.

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material girl wrote:

I think fashions should come back from days gone by.Its such a shame fashion has gone downhill for men.

Id love to see men dressed as well as they did in the 30's,40's.

Oh yes! Clothes were just so much more comfortable and stylish.
Look at that ladies bathing suit, you don't have to actually weigh 100 lbs to wear it, and you don't have to worry about bending over.

Men wearing actual shirts, and hats!

Meaning the type of hat you take off when you go indoors, not those stupid caps that stay on where every you are, even when eating...ugh...

http://www.mybabyjo.com/mens/hibisuc_lg.jpg

http://www.audio-play.com/toodead/images/Suit-1.jpg

http://www.mybabyjo.com/clothes/bath5purple_th.jpg

http://www.mybabyjo.com/clothes/lucy_th.jpg

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MG, What is it about medieval China that makes you feel you should have lived a life there? I'm just curious, it's the first time I've heard a westerner pick that time and place.

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Green Witch wrote:

MG, What is it about medieval China that makes you feel you should have lived a life there? I'm just curious, it's the first time I've heard a westerner pick that time and place.

I think oriental people have this kind of mysticism about them and their beliefs about dragons and tigers having powers(or something like that),like the strange little twists in the film Kung Fu Hustle, men with a harp that throws out swords.A human hand punching out a hole the size of a bus without making contact etc.The terracota army, bejewelled tombs surrounded by seas of murcury, the Great wall of China taking decades to build etc
Their traditional clothes are amazing!
I also like dark eary things, chinese vampires,Sayuri from The Ring film, Jabbawocky(set in the medieval era),The Last Emperor, maybe ive been watching too many films.
Just the combination of darkness, myths, mystery, amazing costumes a sense of history a sense of grace etc.In theory I love it but in reality it may be completely different.

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I'll take 2000 years in the future. I have total confidence in us getting it right by then. You romantics can have the past.

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spendius wrote:

I'll take 2000 years in the future. I have total confidence in us getting it right by then. You romantics can have the past.

They'll have managed to eliminate human nature?

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