Monday, December 18, 2006

Generation gap

Discourse about the new generation's politeness, morals and behavior has always taken place between older people. We often hear: "Those were different times, when we grew up..."
Well, yeah, it is because this "old generation" when at age of 20, experienced Soviet times with different rules and regulations. More over, things that seemed unacceptable in those times, are fashionable and reasonable in nowadays world. Therefore, older people cannot accept that, for example, young people, aged 20, already have children, have divorced at least once and wear earrings in nose, navel and eyebrows. There is amount of older people that have "stuck" in previous century and think that all youngsters are all the same.

But is it really true? Some cases proove that things, the "old generation" did in their times are not acceptable in modern world.
Latvian embassies in foreign countries usually make receptions in honour of state's commemoration days like November 11 and November 18. Latvian students and pensioners are often among the invited people. So it is also in Tallinn, Estonia.
After one such reception, the representative of Latvian students in Tallinn received objurgatory e-mail, that Latvian students do not know how to behave properly, because someone had smoked in the toilets of embassy.
But this was the hot discussion topic for Latvian students the next day after the reception in embassy, because they had seen that pensioners were smoking in toilets of the embassy, although a special room for smokers was provided. So, maybe "old generation" are the ones that should reassess their behavior and only then criticize the "young generation"?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hahaha.. the old generations lagg themselves! Why would 1 want to go to a designated smoking area, if u can get bigger thrills by smoking in the bathrooms...

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