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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
You would think it would be the opposite but unfortunately that’s not how it usually works
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Originally Posted by MicShazam
All 4 of my grandparents were really nice people. My father's parents were involved in various charities and sometimes lent out a room to students from Romania, Hungary, etc.
My Mother's parents were just super nice and always super hospitable. I remember being on vacation there as a kid. There would often be guests for a cup of coffee, like people who lived nearby, distant family or even the mailman.
All of them had been relatively poor farmers when they were younger. In any case, I think it's a bit too easy to broad brush an entire generation.
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I'm mainly talking about America and the children raised during the Great Depression and it's also important to note the Red Scares that demonized socialism, but the mentality born of extreme scarcity definitely encouraged those kids to believe that hard work and self-sufficiency were the be-all-end-all of your worth as a person.