Are you ever SHOCKED by how butt-ignorant *SOME* young people are?

[TheDebbieDee]

11. Young people today aren't taught any meaningful history

in school anymore and they don't seem to be curious enough to do any research on their own even now that they can do their research on the internet instead of going to a library.

I'd wager that most Americans under 40 have no clue what WWII was about, they're unaware that it's estimated that between 20 and 24 MILLION people died as casualties in WWII. They no nothing about the civil rights movement or integration of public schools.

My daughter (she's 28) was kind of freaked out when I told her a couple of years ago that ALL forms of birth control were illegal in most states until the mid-60s.

ETA: When James Brown died 4 or 5 years ago and again when Donna Summer died earlier this year, my mind was blown when my daughter asked me who they were. So I pulled out all my cds and played their music for her.

Several years ago, we were watching Project Runway and one of the contestants asked Tim Gunn who the Beatles were? On hearing this, my daughter turned to me and asked the same question.