Comparing My Teens And My Grandma's Structure And Culture

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My grandma was born in 1945 and I was born 49 years later in 1994. We may have grown up only a few hundred miles from each other, but we experienced very different structural and cultural surroundings. To help one fully get the understanding of these differences between my grandmother’s and my own upbringing you can compare a simple Midwest country lifestyle to a Detroit fast-paced city structured life. Yet, remembering my grandmother and me only lived a small distance from one another, but in reality our structure and culture of the U.S. is far from familiar to each other. Looking back at the 1950’s from my grandmother’s point of view to the 21st century today is far different because the world keeps revolving around the sun and people progress, …show more content…

For example, each one of us experienced a generation gap with our parents where we were either viewed as delinquent juveniles or a generation heading in the wrong direction. In the 1950s the problem that arose between teens and their parents was the new freedom and growing economy after the war. With this freedom and growth came liberty of thought and more money to spend. It was more common for parents to give their kids money than in the past for food and clothes. A new kind of music was introduced as well and teens were buying and popularizing a genre not listened to or understood by their parents. Rock and Roll was and an ununderstood new wave in American culture and was believed to be poisoning their children and future generation. Just like rock and roll today teens and young adults still have a generation gap it just comes in other forms. Technology is today’s misunderstood rock and roll of the 50s. Technology by many is seen as a form of rebellion and that the generation that has grown up with computers, cellphones, etc. are not adequate for the real world. Because of this rock and roll and technology have a lot in common when it comes to social critique as well as my grandmother and I share this generation gap

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