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Post modernism came about due to the changing social climate, and the growing multi centralism of the world through global communication and technology. In many ways people believed that the aesthetic quality of society was diminishing. Post modern caused a tsunami of change among popular style and challenged the term modernism as only a continuation of the parent it “rebelled” from. The designers of the 1970’s embraced the term, and the style giving it a strong and popular foothold in society. Contrary to popular belief Post-Modernism is neither anti-modernist nor retaliation. It accepts the ideas of the twentieth century, and as its name implies it acknowledges the idea of modernism but goes beyond the faction, and blends it with other, newer ideas. It really is in fact just an extension, not a deliberate opposite to the main, creation of the modernistic way of thinking. Although it was quite a popular wave of thinking, like any trend and all movements of the last two hundred