Thursday, January 22, 2009
80's Baby
I was born in 1978, so I would say I was a child of the 80's. I grew up with my family struggling with money because the economy was in a recession and my father was out of work in the winter. This is similar to the current decade because the economy has taken a bad fall and so many people have lost their homes and vehicles because they cannot afford them. Times were tough in the 80's and are tough again today. It seems like in the 80's home life was more family oriented with family dinners and families spending time together. Now it seems as though society is driven more by the selfish, what do I get out of it, attitude that pulls the focus away from the family and puts in on the individual.
A current societal trend is the need for young girls to look older. I see middle school girls walking to school and have to do a double-take because they are dressed like adult women about to go to the night club. On a few occasion I have seen girls that looked like prostitutes. Where are our school dress codes? I think the need for girls to look older will and does have a negative impact on child development because it is forcing our children to sprint out of their childhood and deny their innocence in an attempt to fit in with their peers.
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I wanted to add one more societal trend that I just saw today. I was watching a video of Maya Angelou reading a poem she wrote for President Clinton's inauguration and the style of people's hair stood out to me. It reminded me that in the 80's and 90's it was popular to tease your hair and overuse hair spray. Today it seems that the trend is to have hair professionally colored with highlights and lowlights and to have it straightened at salons costing a rediculus amount of money. The negative impact is the peer pressure of having to fit in and whether or not people will grow old with any hair.
ReplyDeleteI have also noticed that young girls wish to look older. I am doing another project for a different class and I am writing about this. Looking at the clothes trends from this era it is kind of sad to see what young girls are trying to be like.
ReplyDeleteHI I really enjoyed your blog everything that you mentioned everyone can relate to in one way or another. I liked how you mentioned insufficient me time and couple time. Many people forget about themselves and their spouse or significant other and focus more on everything else.
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