Do I sound like a snob? The rise of Trump correlates directly with the abysmal degradation

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38. If you can't keep up with what they're talking about

You'll be disconnected. I see this in my own family. Due to my line of work I'm fairly well plugged into pop culture. So at the family dinner table, I get exactly what the kids are talking about and they engage fully with me on everything. My significant other and the kids grandparents who live with us are just oblivious to it all. And that comes in the form of culture and politics. My significant other has said multiple times that it's like listening to people talk in a foreign language around her when we get into it, from music to movies to books to celebrity and so forth.

Without that, their engagement is basically talking just about school and little else other than perhaps some of what's going on in a general sense of schedule and the like.

I had the same with my father; he had absolutely no idea what I was into or talking about and as time went on he further disconnected from me and made for a strained relationship. My mother kept engaged with the pop culture side and communicated with me which in turn brought up discussions elsewhere of greater depth about life and politics because of the commonalities through culture.