[vinnomot] With A Grain of Salt!: Mind the Gap, the generation gap that is.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

[vinnomot] With A Grain of Salt!: Mind the Gap, the generation gap that is.

Have you heard about the greatest generation? This is the generation which was born around the early part of the 20^th century and fought in the Second World War. These are the people who fought because it was the right thing to do and went on after the war to build one the most prosperous societies known to mankind. The next big war, Vietnam War, produced what I would call as the bewildered generation. Between drugs, peace, liberalism, a whole generation was lost to society but just when life was settling down, 9/11 happened. It is too early to say but between 9/11, Afghanistan, the Bush Administration and Iraq, a new generation is forming which will define America for the next thirty years at the least. I call it the angry generation. What will the angry generation do?

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http://piquancy.blogspot.com/2008/04/mind-gap-generation-gap-that-is.html

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Bhaskar Dasgupta

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