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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 9083179" data-attributes="member: 22779">Oh, I very much disagree.  The younger generation is better than us.  In pretty much every way.  More accepting, smarter, more willing to work together and far, far more socially aware than we were.  I am simply astonished by the resilience and strength of younger people.  They've been on the short end of pretty much every single stick.  Boomers or Gen X like me?  We had it on easy mode by comparison.  Good grief, I was born in 1972.  So, by 1992, in Canada, we'd had... one recession?  We were just starting a second one in the early 90's, but that was about it.  That was the worst thing we had in my first twenty years.My daughter, OTOH, was born in 2000.  Lessee, 9/11, a country that was at war for most of her life, massive wild fires, three of the worst recessions in history.  Oh and on the Japanese side, we watch 20000 people get washed out to sea a few years back and they're still dealing with the aftermath of that.  Greater Generation?  Nah.</blockquote>