Funny. I never think of millenials or boomers. Boomers are what age group and are millenials the up and coming young of today? I think in terms of smart/dumb. Rich/poor. Cruel/kind. Honorable/dishonorable. Thank you for your reply L! :)
This post was edited by RosieG at March 17, 2021 10:39 AM MDT
That last one is a doozy but I know you knew I'd burst out laughing. That's for darn sure! So all of that exists? Good GRIEF! I've heard of the Boomers and Millennials (from you probably) but all of those others? Generation JONES?Xennials? Generation Z? Generation Alpha? Who makes up this stuff honey? Seriously. Somebody has to, right? It just doesn't show up out of nowhere. I am shaking my head as I write this. I keep reading that list. Boy I sure don't know an awful lot! Thank you for taking the trouble to educate me about it. I'm glad you pay attention to stuff. Clearly I don't or if I do I just don't remember it! :)
Don't feel bad - I hadn't heard of a couple of them either. One of my nieces asked me what do they call people born after Generation Alpha. I told her "Screwed."
Hahahaha! Another ZINGER. I know about the roaring 20's of course and wasn't there a "lost" generation somewhere? Those are vaguely familiar. And then Tom Brokaw wrote about the World War vets. He called that some generation. I forget which. The greatest generation or the bravest? Thank you for your reply. I think the kids of the FOOTOO years are royally gypped and eternally damaged. I feel so very bad for them and their parents. I mean compared to our childhoods (mine predating yours but still good childhoods) and my son's too. He is 56 now and his youth involved in little league baseball and in high school it was track and he played in some basketball leagues. Very wholesome and proper and good. What these kids have to look up to and copycat and what they get from their parents I can't imagine. Everything is much harder now. Not how it should be it seems to me. I'll ask. :)
Tom Brokaw wrote about the Greatest Generation. Those were the folks who suffered through WWII. Civilians back then did what they could to support the troops - there was rationing and all sorts of things that had to be put on hold or sacrificed. I wonder how many of today's young people would be able to give that unselfishly of themselves.
I remember it so well. Sugar and butter was rationed. There were slogans then like "butter for guns". The folks at home supported the soldiers. The women went to work in factories to replace the men who went to fight the wars. We were all in it together. Having mom bake a cake was something VERY RARE. The country unified with regard to boding together to fight the bad guys. "They also serve who only sit and wait". I was a little girl and even I knew what was at stake. Those days were very good days patriotism wise. It hate groups existed in America then they were very quiet. Those were the days. Now if this country goes to war the RACISTS will be rooting for the bad guys to win. i have no doubt about that! I shall ask. Thank you for your reply L! :)
Exactly. It was not a time of divisioning. Of course I was just a little girl. It seemed to me that everyone took the war SERIOUSLY. My mom and I were sorting laundry on December 7, 1941. Mom had the radio on and all of a sudden President Roosevelt breaks in and addresses the nation. All about a DAY OF INFAMY. My mom starts tearing up so I knew it wasn't good news. December 7, 1941 is a day that will remain in infamy and also my memory. I was 4. I still remember my mom's face. Funny that. Thank you for your reply L! :)
I expect so. Being attacked like that. But they were FOREIGNERS. How much worse it is to have lived during a January 6 when we are attacked by home grown white supremacist VIOLENT domestic terrorists? How much worse could it get than that? It couldn't. Thank you for your reply L! :)
This post was edited by RosieG at March 20, 2021 7:44 AM MDT
The people are SUPPOSED TO attack the government that abuses them. The people are not supposed to attack the people who disagree with them to service a crackpot racist defective despot. That's what happened here January 6. SIGH. How does this story end L? I don't have a clue. Do you? Did you read the Declaration of Independence and see specifically what we had against King George? It's a mighty lengthy list of BAD. And so it goes. Thank you for your reply L! :)
I was not a history buff, so my recollection of the really big issue with King George was taxation without representation. I don't know how this story ends, nor do I think any else does. How big a stretch is it from overthrowing an election to overthrowing a government. January 6th may have taught us that it isn't that big a stretch.
Jones and Xennial are new ones to me. I heard it differently: Boomers: 1946-64 GenX: 1965-79 GenY/Millenial: 1980-94 GenZ/Cyberkids: 1995-2009 Gen Alpha/iGen: 2010-
Caricatures are always insulting, and that's usually what a stereotype is. I've never seen an Australian wearing a hat with corks dangling from it, I've only seen those on tourists. Or a fat, stolid, boring German in a tricorn and lederhosen, gargling in waltz time and keeping his ear wax in mason jars.
Shrimp on the barbie a caricature? An insult? Funny that. I take it as being very friendly open welcoming hospitable. You would know how you feel about it. Now I know too. Latin lover. French cuisine. Jewish mama. Irish eyes. I see them as compliments not caricatures or insults. Sure some Latins suck at it and some French folks can't cook and not all Jewish mothers are "Jewish" mothers. Not all Irish eyes are smiling either. I think I'm too old to change my view on this subject R. I think of stereotypes as shorthand. Like abbreviations or acronyms. Insulting? Caricatures? Or just a convenient method of communication? It depends on the eyes of the beholder. Kangaroos. Koala Bears. Outback. I mean there is a restaurant chain called THE OUTBACK. Well I done said my say. :)
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