When my stepdaughters (35 and 33) were here last week they asked us the dates of the first and second world wars. That’s something I can’t imagine not knowing, but is that tied to me being Gen X growing up around grandparents who had lived through WWII and parents who were born in the 1946 baby boom?
My hairdresser who is 32 went to Poland earlier this year but when I told her I visited in 1990 just after the fall of communism, she said, “What’s that?”
Are millennials just divorced from major events and ideologies of the 20th century because it’s such ancient history for them? Am I expecting too much of people born in the 90s to know this stuff?
Charlotte Walker
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