@Irshgrl31201 wrote:
@mstyrion 1 wrote:
These youth-bashing threads come up so often here.
Think back to when you were 20 years old. Did you know or care very much about 100 year old history? Could you have named two SCOTUS? Did you have details about pop stars of your parents or grand-parents era? Yes, I had a good working knowledge of the Civil War, but I doubt I could have given you the exact years it was fought when I was 20. I knew who the president and VP were but that's it. I couldn't have named any cabinent members. At 20, I had other things on my mind. It wasn't until later that I started paying attention to that kind of stuff.
You do realize that Jay Leno only puts the dumb answers on TV, don't you?
You do realize that not everything on the internet is true, don't you?
Our generation has it's own "dumbness".
Science deniers.
Gossip believers
Blind trust in media accuracy
It's silly and arrogant to expect a 20 year old to be interested in the exact same things I am interested in at 60. I've got 40 years of experience on them. Their time will come.
No, sorry but these aren't some obscure history questions. Who is the vice prez, who won the civil war and what country did we get our independence from????? EVERYONE should know that. I am sure there are people in their 40s, 50s and up who don't know that either so I don't think it is exclusive to just younger people. I think it is a really sad state of affairs though if a person doesn't know those questions.
I also don't expect a 20 yr old to have the same interests and I know some people don't get a real interest or appreciate history until they get a little older but this is stuff everyone should know.
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I will agree that everone should know these things.
I'm glad you acknowledge it most definitely isn't just young people who don't know these things, however. I've seen some pretty amazing gaps in knowledge right here on these boards and the demographic is many, many years removed from age 20.
I doubt many in your age group know why WW1 was fought and which countries participated. I doubt many in your age group know there were two theaters of war in WW2. The generations preceding yours would shake their heads in disbelief that they don't know about these things that impacted them so strongly.
That was my point. Why expect someone decades younger than you to be interested in the same things you are. Someone here expressed amazement a young person didn't know who Bob Dylan is. I wonder if that person knew who was a hot star during her grandparents heyday?
~Enough is enough~
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