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What I have noticed in the different generations is everyone seems to be in more of a hurry nowadays. Apparently there is not enough time to spend on oneself, let alone family members.
Then there is peer pressure....it used to be called "keeping up with the Joneses." That hasn't changed much....generations do different activities.
People are growing up on the streets instead of at home with parents, grandparents. This started in my generation with people moving away from their home towns....the only places where I see 3 or more generations living close together now is the families that immigrate to our country. Sure, I realize that some of you are going to say that's what it is like for them and I will state that this has been my experience, what I've seen.
Many factors come into play when a person starts asserting their independence from parents. | |
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Posted: 10/6/2006 7:49:23 PM | I agree with you 100% basicallysweet.
I have a 16 and an 18 year old and I would agree that I think there is absolutely nothing wrong with a majority of the kids out there.
There is an old saying, "you can't judge a book by it's cover" and that statement holds true more than ever in this day and age. Now neither of my kids have piercings or tatoos, but they certainly have friends that do. And yes the boys wear baggy pants and can barely walk and some of the girls shirts are a little more revealing that I would think is appropriate, but that doesn't make them bad people.
They still like to sit around the kitchen table and eat grill cheese sandwiches and talk about school, family, life in general. They are smart, wayyy smarter than we were at their age. Their schooling is much more difficult, the competition tougher and more global, and the bar of life has been set much higher.
Yes there are some bad seeds out there, but they are few in number, and most ended up that way due to circumstances beyond their control. | |
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Posted: 10/7/2006 3:53:22 AM | I'm just a "little" curious here now. People talking about the
younger generation on how it is now but what about when
you where the younger generation? Did you really care what
the older generation though about you? We should have
nothing to complain about the younger generation of today.
We helped make it, be proud!
I agree with BasicallySweet, "Get to know folks by who they are" | |
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Posted: 10/7/2006 9:04:22 AM | As I've said I deal with the "younger" generation on a daily basis, and I DO remember what it was like at their age, and maybe that's what makes it so scary, and most of it comes down to the one word mentioned in an earlier post....RESPECT, and the lack of, for their fellow "younger generation" people.
Younger people have never given 2 shits, what older people think of them, their style, their music, etc, and that will never change, but when they don't care about their own age group, or the opposite sex of their age group, and treat them like crap. Then the "older" generation has cause to worry, because that is our future leaders, and that is scary.
Recent examples of our new safe "younger generation" in rural Langley, not Vancouver or some Big city back alley, in Langley in a park in daylight.
This is from the local newspaper in the last week:
A headline thats encapsulates the story:
Four 16-year-old Langley boys were arrested shortly after an 18-year-old boy was shot at Bell Park in Brookswood on Wednesday afternoon.
and another "story"
The girl said she and her friend from Langley, both 15, were walking through the park near Lafarge Lake around 1:15 a.m. on Aug. 14 when they were set upon by three men.
The girls were near the lower level of parking close to the skateboard park and volleyball court when they saw an Asian man running towards them with an aluminum baseball bat.
Behind him were two Caucasian men, one with a knife.
The man with the knife ran up to the Coquitlam girl and demanded money, while the man with the bat did the same to her friend.
The girls said they didn't have any money and one of the men asked the Langley girl to take off her sweater and give it to him. She also took off her necklace and gave it to the man with the bat. The man then told her to take off her shirt and she screamed "No" and started to run away.
At the same time, the other girl had her chest grabbed by the man with the knife. Two of the men then told the Langley girl to flash them, and started telling her to take her top off. She started to run away, but was tackled.
As the men were going for her friend, the Coquitlam girl remembered that she had her cellphone, and hid it behind her back to call 911.
She screamed into the phone, but the men discovered what she was doing, she said, and came after her with the knife and the bat, hitting her in the stomach, legs, head and arms and causing bruising and puncture wounds.
A practitioner of martial arts, the girl fought back, kicking and screaming until her phone rang and the men ran away. The attackers where late teens maybe early 20's
Sorry no OLDER generastion involved here, I'm not saying past gens where perfect, far from it, very far from it, but the generation next, has to learn to respect their fellow man or their won't be any left to respect. | |
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Posted: 10/7/2006 1:41:39 PM | | Rebellion, violence, and hatred is the way of the world. You can find it in any generation, in any era. It is the choice of the person. I know of many younger people who may dress the "style" of the day. Many are far more mature and responsible than many "adults". It is the ones who take advantage of today's society who excel. I have worked with many teens who know what they want and who they are. Older generations can learn from youth just as much or perhaps more than the youth can learn from them. It is quite the sight when a student can teach the instructor! Do not fear the unknown. | |
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Posted: 10/7/2006 1:46:26 PM | There is nothing wrong with the young generation nothing wrong with rap and hip hop
actually i would say the that is the reason some kids are not on the street doing drugs and sheit, because it is poetry its a way for the youth of today to keep busy and have fun.
Instead of donig drugs and getting into trouble i mean geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzz
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Posted: 10/7/2006 1:47:48 PM | And I should know I was part of the younger generation and i still Rap and you know what.
Its got me places I never dreamed of going so im livivng proof theres hope. | |
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Posted: 10/7/2006 2:14:36 PM | I think there are issues with everyone always.. FOR HISTORY and INTO ETERNITY... we could talk about this issue all day long.. Its like opening a fortune cookie and saying.. NO KIDDING!!! I dont think we need negativity... I believe that the world needs more love and understanding | |
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Posted: 10/7/2006 2:42:22 PM | Every generation has good and bad.....Hitler comes to mind but he's way before my time.
Nowadays, one can sit in front of their TV and what does the news show? Weather, sports and mostly all the bad news they can find....bad news is what people watch to make them feel better about their life. It's very similar in the newspapers, especially the big ones in the larger cities.
The more people that live together, the more conflicts you'll see, whether it's over money, space or whatever.
With technology the way it is today, everyone has instant access to news/headlines all over the world. It wasn't like that when I was young, we had a black & white TV (dad controlled what we watched) and a radio.
We weren't safe back then either.....almost everyone I know was sexually assaulted as a child....it just wasn't talked about back then. Nowadays, pedofiles and other creeps have access to kids whenever the kids are online....and the majority of those freaks are not the younger generation.
It's all about making choices....whether good or bad. | |
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Posted: 10/7/2006 3:11:42 PM | | My son (22) said it all for me when I asked him if the girl we just passed was a hooker. He said no the hookers wear more clothes. | |
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Posted: 10/8/2006 12:23:14 PM | Firstly let me thank you Draxx for taking a broader, more realistic perspective of this thing since I even started this thread. I was up in arms when I saw my first replies to be completely honest but this is turning out to be pretty insightful lol. I'm glad I'm not completely alone, and I'm very happy to see that there are people willing to address the issues as passionately as I am.
The fact of the matter is as follows:
Yes, a lot of parents need to pay more attention to their children rather than have everyone working 80 hours a week split between two parents. But where is that money going if it's giving those kids a better life? Their clothes, their popularity, their social image (smoking, drinking, boozing, "balling"). How is that money benefiting the children? Oh the big ass home? the 123,308 channels on your rotational 5 dish satellite revolver on your two story suburban home? Yeah it sucks living in a home with 2 bedrooms for four people, but if it means your children's futures I'd say it's worth it. Yeah it would suck to have to read instead of watch TV and galvanize the imagery of sex and violence into the brains and minds of little kids.
"it's the music they listen to" - you know what, **** that. i grew up on rap and learnt how to be strong, brave and it gave me hope. i grew up without anyone giving a shit about my family because of our social status and i got through it. i'm well on my way to being able to take good care of my family and rap if anyting helped me get through it all. i don't want any bullshit about degrading to women, i love and respect women (that earn it) because of how i was raised, by two women.
I'm guilty of the violence of this younger generation, and i'm also guilty for a lot of "misogynistic" music because i produced and recorded an album that has profanity. it's poetry, and it's heart. just like people say things they don't mean when they're mad to get over some shit, people write music saying things they don't actually believe in because it's just expression. 50 cent is not expression. fergie is not expression... sean paul is not expression. i don't care if you like them, but don't characterize shit you know nothing about as being harmful to people cause you don't have a ****ing clue what the word "thug" is really about.
I'm not here to lecture, in truth i was here for a little bit of a boost and i got it. so thank you all. i'd like to point out that each one of us is at fault, but i think we can all agree that it's more or less the government's for simplicity sake (just kidding) | |
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Posted: 10/8/2006 1:30:36 PM | Is anyone else embarrassed for being aware of the resullts of the past social conciousness of the planet? Is anyone embarrassed that millions have died in gas chambers or an arena to raise the conciousness of faith.Is anyone embarrassed that blacks in cotton fields or third world women have been enslaved for the conciousness of freedom? Is embarrassment fundamentally necessary to raise the conciousness of the situation? Is our past unconciousness part of the present situation? Is the the misery of unconcious darkness from the past allowing us the embarrassement of conciousness towards the future?These are exciting times we live in and as it is written "children will have no natural affection".Is anyone embarassed we spend trillions on war,greed and law.The children are merely reflecting the conciousness like a canary in a mine.The time is upon us that the embarassment of the past will be outweighed by the conciousness of the present. Are you embarrassed that you have a conciousness?
FEEL NOT ASHAMED ,AWKWARD OR PERPLEXED FOR WHAT IS WRITTEN WILL BE! | |
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Posted: 10/9/2006 2:52:30 AM | | I"m a single parent raising four teen agers on my oun .{two girls} I think individuality is a fantastic thing,I incurage my kids to wear what ever they want and not judge any one else by what they wear. | |
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Posted: 10/9/2006 8:15:13 AM | not that I'm anything like close to perfect but I am dedicated to my three teens.....they always come before my job and I am lucky that my job is flexible.....
the media is brutal and for the most part catering to a 'if you want it take it' mentality.....more comments later....Susan | |
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