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In reply to the discussion: Time magazine=Millennials Are Lazy, Entitled Narcissists Who Still Live With Their Parents [View all]tabbycat31
(6,336 posts)128. the generation was also raised to fear strangers
I can remember assemblies in elementary school where we were brought in to watch videos on 'stranger danger' which basically said that if we even acknowledged a stranger's existence, we would be abducted at gunpoint.
We were taught to never interact with people we don't know. Who do you think produced those videos?
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graham4anything
May 2013
OP
Were there any accomplishments that could be lauded, such as polio vaccine, or a man
bike man
May 2013
#35
I'm staying out of generational warfare, but boomers had nothing to do with developing either
Tom Ripley
May 2013
#73
Upon rereading the OP, one can find this tidbit "...The incidence of narcissistic
bike man
May 2013
#96
Of course family is important to the ME ME ME, as they still LIVE with the family Me
graham4anything
May 2013
#7
I like Cher too.(Cher is an oldie but goodie.)Looked up Barakas. Interesting sound
graham4anything
May 2013
#162
why not stop being personal and argue the article. 80-20 is the 2013 PEACE symbol.
graham4anything
May 2013
#165
Before you go all radically and progressively sarcastic on someone, please consider
Skidmore
May 2013
#177
I bet if one of those whiny alt-media worked for time, others would have posted it
graham4anything
May 2013
#61
President Obama speaks for the liberal democratic party & so does his first SOS
graham4anything
May 2013
#102
there is NO media that supports President Obama. Therefore there is a faux analogy
graham4anything
May 2013
#135
The Alt-media is all playing their angle, oh so predictable Ron Paul style.
graham4anything
May 2013
#139
He's trying to make DU look bad, IMHO. The haters come here to spread their hate and
kestrel91316
May 2013
#75
Hell, 'the greatest generation' and others said the same thing about boomers, for that matter
Cirque du So-What
May 2013
#18
You don't like Bob Graham? Why? President Obama is OLD School in a New body.
graham4anything
May 2013
#23
You're agreeing with it, aren't you? I can attribute its words to your own viewpoint.
BlueStater
May 2013
#65
The boomers were the last generation to have it better off than their parents
tabbycat31
May 2013
#90
Horseshit. They cannot even agree on what "narcissistic personality disorder" is.
bemildred
May 2013
#28
When a person spends all day long with an iPod or cell phone glued to their ear
BlueStreak
May 2013
#43
Takes an awfully simplistic mind to come up with stuff and an even more simplistic mind to agree...
LanternWaste
May 2013
#30
I actually agree with every word of that. I am talking effect and you are talking cause.
BlueStreak
May 2013
#119
When I'm on call, sending and receiving phone calls is part of the job description-- hence, it is in
LanternWaste
May 2013
#113
Odd... I thought only idiots reached a conclusion based on anecdotal and incomplete information.
LanternWaste
May 2013
#112
Oh look, another "Young people are shit with their Snapples and their skateboards
Arkana
May 2013
#33
We can't get high paying jobs and the ones we can get don't pay enough that we can afford rent.
Initech
May 2013
#44
I shared an apt with 4 others. If you don't get along with others then I guess you are on your own..
L0oniX
May 2013
#97
Of course it's corporist. Who but the corporate media create and perpetuate these memes?
snagglepuss
May 2013
#76
That it was pushed by one interest once upon a time doesn't deny that it is being pushed by another,
LanternWaste
May 2013
#122
You're not starting inter-generational warfare. That was done in the OP
DisgustipatedinCA
May 2013
#68
Social capital is in decline. Is it the millenials fault? Doesn't really matter.
lumberjack_jeff
May 2013
#87
Says the generatiok of folks who want the party to roll on until they get theirs...
Earth_First
May 2013
#125
that is what they said about my generation back in the 60"s except people didn't use such big words
Douglas Carpenter
May 2013
#129
Nah, I disagree.Think about past-Now,every minority and every young woman can be President.
graham4anything
May 2013
#183
I hate to say this, but damn, Graham, I am really disappointed in you today.
AverageJoe90
May 2013
#188
This sort of generational warfare is just one more form of 'divide and rule'
LeftishBrit
May 2013
#204