A 100-year-old person is called a centenarian, though some people have also called this 100-year-old a centurion, which means “the commander of a century (a group of one hundred) in the ancient Roman army”. In that time, a centenarian would have gone through the Second World War, the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the independence of many colonised countries, the rapid development of some of those countries and the development of civil wars in others, the fall of the Berlin War, the break up of the Soviet Union, the end of apartheid in South Africa, and the rise of technology, especially the Internet. In the United States, the self-proclaimed most advanced and greatest country in the world, not only has its government managed to force corporations, lawyers, universities, the media, and judges to kowtow to those in power but have even made them pay for the privilege.
Author: Marina Mahathir
Published at: 2025-07-26 23:00:00
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