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In reply to the discussion: Just overheard a brief snippet of conversation between two young boys [View all]Rod Beauvex
(564 posts)7. Question.
I've wondered just how much smarter kids are today are as opposed to, say, how smart the baby boomers were back in the days of protesting Vietnam, and look how things have turned out since then.
Personally, I've begun to think the it is the internet that has had more to do with changing attitudes these days. Fewer people living in a bubble, and skewing this is the fact that younger people tend to be bigger users of the internet.
As for your last point, I do think pop music is becoming fun again. Not to mention there are more sources of amateur and semi-professional music available.
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Just overheard a brief snippet of conversation between two young boys [View all]
justiceischeap
Sep 2014
OP
They were both white but one was a ginger, so he has his own issues, I'm sure
justiceischeap
Sep 2014
#2
Thank you. I was thinking maybe it referred to my three nieces who are descended from a white
jwirr
Sep 2014
#23
"Ginger" used to be a mostly British term for what we called "red-headed"
Arugula Latte
Sep 2014
#27
It hits home when it affects family. Many hearts were changed when one of the kids in
alfredo
Sep 2014
#35
I have two sons and both would have been more likely to say "female" than a "girl."
pnwmom
Sep 2014
#13
Kid definitely said "female" the whole conversation was sort of surreal for me.
justiceischeap
Sep 2014
#24
It wasn't that long ago when they would say, "Of course not, they're girls."
Spitfire of ATJ
Sep 2014
#31
Those boys are certainly much more conscious of socioeconomic gender inequality
Nye Bevan
Sep 2014
#46