Critical Thinking Blog #3

I don't think you can really compare the current youth culture to those of say the sixty's and seventy's. Time have changed. Children in each decade have grown up extremely different from the previous. While a lot of this has to do with technology, another explaination can come from the home and how the children are raised. While in the sixty's, TV was still relatively new. Today it is called by some the babysitter. The regulations and restrictions on TV are not what they used to be, which means youths are being exposed to more ideas and shock entertainment. As for me personally, I grew up on the outskirts of Auburn. I have never lived in a city which I feel a lot of cultural influences come from. For the most part, my siblings and I didn't participate in the popular culture. My parents raised us on 5 acres with quads, motorcycles, and firetrucks. There weren't a lot of kids around, so we kept to ourselves and liked what we liked and did what we did. I don't think it was until I reached middle school that I really started to see brands and realize the status associated with them. Even then though, I wasn't overly interested in it. I was comfortable with who I was and didn't pay attention to what I wore. I just have a really hard time comparing myself with the youth culture. Also I think that I don't really remember a lot from then which is another reason I am having a hard time with this post. I don't really recall any movements during my youth. I know some of the music changed throughout these periods, but I still stuck with the things that I enjoyed regardless of what was overly popular. Even when I read the chapter, I was having a hard time relating to the passages and arguments. Unlike in the previous chapters, this chapter wasn't one I could form an opinion on.