Every once in a while, I am trying to figure out what my generational idenity is and it is debatable. Some say it is the Milenninal generation and some say it is this Generation Z. I don't think I see much difference between the both of them; just the older ones are more likely to walk around like tramps and sluts, and they tend to be less moral than the Generation Z, which tends to be pretty conservative and comformist. It looks like in the college I had been, there has been a shift and I had been in the transition. When I first went in the college, it seems to be a lot of sluttiness and everyone was really getting into college. It was a frat boy day care. Then there seems to be a shift and now the college students are the quiet, meek, conformist, afraid to do anything wrong Generation Z. It looks like it is a totally different decade. I seen the demographic has gotten older in the college and you seem to have a lot more "adult students."
I had experienced the frat boy day care and it seems to be not the exciting. I don't find the thrill of staying up all night playing video games and watching Adult Swim - tends to be very immature. I like to go to bed. Now I see college roommates as a little more mature, and they tend to want to go out to the lake and fry a fish, and listen to country - remember I am in a more rural college.
But I am going to what I had grown up with, with my own personal experience.
1. I remember computers since I was in preschool - I do remember using computer ever since I was about 4 years old and it seems like they were shoved at. I had seen the internet when I was about 6 or 7 years old, and I didn't have much concept of it. Digital cameras and all these things were starting to become part of my childhood and I remember playing around with digital art, and reading digital books on the computer - this considers me as a "digital native." The internet was born in 1991 and it is as old as me, and psychologists say that the first memories start about the age of 3, which makes it about the year 1994, which is actually the beginning of the mainstream takeoff of the internet, which probably makes me one of the first digital natives. At least there were computers around when I was born.
2. I rememberr hip-hop culture - yes, I had remember rap music ever since I was about 3 or 4 years old; there was rap music being even on Sesame Street and kids shows, so there was nothing new. I was exposed to diversity when I was even a young child and saw black people on TV, and though they were like aliens, but eventually I found out there were human just like me. I thought that when you drank a lot of hot chocolate, you turn brown or black. Sesame Street was loaded with diversity and even "rock and roll" so I had been exposed to the diverse world of the 1990s.
3. I don't remember people dressing up to go to town - I remembered sloppy clothing ever since I was a young child, and did not faze me. I actually thought the little girl wearing the dress was pretty, but then when I got older, I seen the sloppy clothing come in. I was trying to comform to the sloppy dress because that's what you do, but my parents wanted me to dress a little more conservatively and thought - did "teenagers wear that." I heard stories about dressing up to go up town with hats, gloves, and suits, but I had never seen that in real life; just in the movies. I was exposed to the TV and I seen people on TV -why is this girl having her belly button showing off and why is this guy wearing a stocking cap during the summer, and guys don't wear earrings, girls do. But I was born in a era where you seen guys with ponytails and I was - okaay.
In school, I was probably bored with learning about the revolutionary war - which kids like the revolutionary war it is boring, but I thought the colonial lifestyle was interesting. I heard stories from grandma when kids did not talk at the table and the adults only talked - but that was a little old and I heard stories that the kids had the last share of the food. That was going on until my mom was little. I thought it was pretty strict back then but what do kids have to talk about at the table anyway. The old schoolhouse stories had interested me when I was younger.
That was my childhood and this what I remembered. I don't think the childhood today has changed much - I remember the live action Disney was starting to kick in when I was young and the more conformist media. It was all about being cool as a little kid. We did not have Hannah Montana but the Disney Channel is the same layout as it was 10 years ago - just less Mickey Mouse tha it used to be ; I did remember the Mickey Mouse Disney but even that started to turn into a MTV orientated Disney. I have to admit it now; Disney seems to have way better programming than 90% of the other channels - I rather watch the internet and I will still sneak on Disney, probably a movie, when "nobody is looking". I even watch Fathers Knows Best reruns when nobody is looking -that is a good era of TV that I miss.
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