How is the world now different from what it was like when you were a child?
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There's like a buttload of differences. I'm 45. I walked or rode my bike to school. Lots of kids did, even in high school. Now the bike racks are gone. We had no internet, not even desktop computers. No Ipods. Not even Walkmans. No cell phones. No CDs. We had records, cassettes, and 8 track tapes. There were no school shootings, drugs were extremely limited, the big deal in high school was smoking. If you could get away with smoking, you were a big deal. Limos at the prom were rare. Most of us drove ourselves. It was much much smoggier when I was a kid. The air in Southern California was brown and smelled bad. Gas was cheap compared to now, but wages were lower, so it didn't much matter. When I was a kid, we had Vietnam on TV every night until the early 70s. Now we have Iraq on TV every night.
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where were you when I was younger
1017989
Being there 50 years ago & being here now I would have to say that the thinking of young people is very different today.  Back then, right & wrong were matters of concience & everbody had one of those. Many young people today don't seem to have a conscience. That is, young people seem very wrapped up in their own personal comfort & care very little about how others feel.  I notice this in the way I'm treated by most young people who don't know me.  They don't know me, therefore they can be rude.  In the same way, many young people do things like shoplift for example, because they don't care who will take the fall when product is missing or the register is short. It just wasn't like that 50 years ago.  I know young people who cheat at everything; school, sports, work etc.. They have told me often that it's ok to cheat as long as you get away with it.\nIn all fairness to young people, this same question could have been asked 50 years ago & the answers would probably be the same.\nI hope the next 50 take us in a better direction.
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Definitely my childhood, every child seems to know what he or she is doing, or the situation he or she is in until they grow up and see how much they actually messed up or got abused which also reflects on their future. \n\nAs for me i cant say i had a very happy childhood, and i believe its clear when you see me. Dont get the wrong, im okay but there are so much things in the past that sometimes just determines where your headed.\n\nIts sad but true.
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Youth of the old days, didn't have many of the modern conveniences of the youth of today. Life was more simple. Slower pace to life. Less stress. \nOur youth today are misunderstood. They are faced with many things that even 20 years ago were basically unknown. They are pushed to succeed at earlier ages than ever before. They aren't allowed to just be kids. They are judged many times unjustly. So much more is expected of them, and they rebel. I don't blame them. I sympathize with them. The youth of today amaze me, all the things that they face upon reaching adulthood. They have my respect.
563178
One key issue is realizing how utterly dumb you were as a kid. And seeing the kids today being just as dumb.  Life goes on.
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when is it you expect to know exactly what you want in life later on isnt ones circumstances that can changes ones perception on life and as we grow in life .when you were little,. think did you do nothing no always doing something, but it now does seem to be important but it was part of life an growing up.do we really want to go back in time an do nothing wouldnt we soon get bored.
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I'm 34 years old.  Don't be in such a rush to grow up.  Its more fun to be a kid.
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compared to a century ago?  yes, I think there has been a significant change to educational learning. Look at elementary school.  They had books. Good things those books. But they only had that, eachother, and the teacher.  Now we have books, computers, voice books, television, teachers and they had each other.  Another major learning environment for the very young is the gym. Today, Physical fitness among 3rd graders is very different from a century ago.  Now we have small bikes, a variety of balls for a cheap and inexpensive price, and other odd stuff.  \nNow if I interpreted your question to, does technology impact educational learning, or does technology impact the way a child learns, the actual brain mechanics? Why?\nThe answer would be similar.  Yes ways of learning have arrived and changed since a century ago.  But for a child, how variable is learning?  One child growing up in the city of New York might go through the same phases as a child growing up in Africa, but different skills would be emphasized.
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It used to be neighborhoods had people that were home all day. Kids had a bit more freedom because no matter where you were someones mom probably saw you. \nPeople now are much more concerned about what they own and how they will get it, we think we have more needs and are always trying to keep up with the standard we see in the media. We are a society of image rather than relationships. We preach tolerance and we judge appearances.\nWe move too fast and seem to think treating each other in insulting ways in comedic. \nPeople demand respect but seldom give it. We judge fast and forgive slowly.
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no, i'm not satisfied with today's lifestyle.\nthough we might have increase in technology, science, etc.\nwe have a decrease in the qualities of life. more individu suffering, more broken family, more poverty.\ni do admire the neolitics era where people live in small community, independent, they fulfill their need themselves, they have lands (since industrial revolution, many people lost their land to small powerful people), they know each other neightbour very well.\n\nbut it isn't impossible to have those life qualities for present, everthing changes and evolves. the main problem for present is global inequality. greed capitalism. consumerism. environment crises. greed. ignorance. we just have to re-establish on our perception on meaning of life, the world.
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It really is getting crazier. I look back at my life as a teen and I look back at others that were there with me and our lives were so much easier. I talk to people that are from my generation and we just cannot believe the way kids dress these days and the way they talk to adults and the crap that they are able to get away with . I believe that the problem is that in most homes both parents have to work in order to make a decent living and the kids do not have their parents with them to control them and some parents think that they are doing their children a favor by spoiling them rotten. \n\nI look at the crap that they are showing on television and the crap movies that are coming out at the theaters. I hardly watch television because of it and I hardly go to the movies because there aren't many good movies to enjoy. \n\nGranted, there are few that I am looking forward to seeing, but for the most part it's all about violence and all about sex and all about things that any good parent would not want their child doing. It's just nuts \n\nI have a slight hunch it isn't going to get any better. Hang on....we are in for one he** of a ride. I look at it this way you go with the flow or get off at the next stop.
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People grow up and change.
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I love the memories I have from childhood in the 1960's, when things were so much simpler.  Now I must say I am not a big fan.  I try and recreate the magic for my daughter but we are living in a much different time and commercialism has just taken over and turned it into such a materialistic pursuit. It's more about who gets their lights up first, whose house is decorated prettier, who finishes shopping the soonest, who got the best deals and the most awesome gifts.  Somewhere in there we pay lip service to peace on earth goodwill to all but it's buried underneath all the trappings of commercialism.
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I would go back to about 400,000 years ago in what is now Southern Iraq or to about 33,000 years ago in the same area.  That is because I am VERY curious about what was going on there...\n\nHowever, I would NOT want to stay there and would DREAD going back in time to ANY place on the earth.  Most all previous times in nearly all places were very, very dangerous compared to living now.\n\nThe time we are born into is the best one for us.  \n\nNo matter what time a person is born into, it is their duty to WORK in THE PRESENT MOMENT of their time in order to make a BETTER FUTURE.\n\nYou can find out a little bit more about this on my blog  http://360.yahoo.com/ki_te_moana
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Actually YES. I think your question is awesome. I wish I was a teenager back in the 80s. However, I'm really glad that I was a little kid in the 80's cause of the best cartoons, toys, tv shows, etc. so I don't really have any regrets.
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Ask this question again when you are a parent. I think your perspective may have changed just a little.