The technological and otherwise evolutions of the 1970s decade are linked to the Cold War "fought" between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. But by 1980, the vision of an American nation united by the same powerful middle-class values had lost its meaning. The people were each focus on their own benefit and the national wealth took a secondary position in the priorities of the American populations. Due to the politics of liberalization and intensified foreign relations, the U.S. became the house of millions of immigrants, many of whom could not be adequately integrated within the society. It was during the '80s that immigration became a real issue.

Additionally, it as during the 1980s that the social disrupters manifested with most of the intensity. "As the Cold War waned, the belief in a United States united by shared middle-class values also lost its force....
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