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Originally posted by Ronn_Bman:
The original or my comment on it? [img]smile.gif[/img]
The original contains some undeniable facts, but also some insinuations. I don't look at it as a put down on the younger crowd though. It just helps me understand how very different things have been for them. Just as things were different for me from my parents and their contemporaries. Our opinions are influenced by our upbringing, surroundings, and memories.
Anyway, I didn't mean anything unfavorable about the youth of today. I wish I was one of them..lol 
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But it DOES put them down, IMO.
"They don't know Reagan was shot. They know nothing about the Cold War. The WWs are ancient history to them. They have never heard of this. They know nothing about that."
How putdownish can you get?? Looks like the writer of that article based his assumptions about the general knowledge of today's youth on his own meagre intelligence.
I agree with you it's very good to keep in mind the different eras someone grew up in (applying to any age - like realising your grandparents lived through the world wars and may have known poverty like you never knew it, as well as realising your little daughter doesn't realise Russia or Germany was the big enemy once.) but I don't think that's what this article does - and it gives young people far too little credit. Just my 2c
