Like people who were young in the 1930s. Did they get angry and resent they had to be young in such a time?

Like people who were young in the 1930s. Did they get angry and resent they had to be young in such a time?


Most people who were 'young' in the 1930s are dead now so.....who knows?

My Grandpop was born in 1924 and he would often share stories from when he was a child/teen in the '30s, so he had nostalgia for them. Unfortunately, he passed away last February.

Idolizing your youth is a post-1950s thing. People didn't care back then about being 15.

I'd say no since in decades like the 1930s the pop culture is considered iconic and interesting. People loved the music, cartoons, comics, fashion etc. If only the economical situation wasn't so bad. But no being upset about being young in a certain time period is literally just a superficial issue that people today give too much attention to. Unless your life was mostly tragic as a kid (which for most people this isn't the case) then you shouldn't go on about why you're upset that you grew up in a specific era.

This "issue" (if you can call it that) is just something people today made up. It's just another thing that shouldn't be a problem yet people made it into one because...................................... I don't know. Idolizing youth is waste of time. Can't keep dwelling on the past when your future is something you can take part in controlling.

I read a high school yearbook from 1958, and there was a section behind each of the graduates about what their ambitions were, and while many did enjoy collecting records and enjoying the rock and roll music of the era, the women in particular had many that just wanted to get married and have kids and be thankful that they've past this rebellious stage so they could enjoy the more mellow lifestyle of married life.

Interesting premise.  But I'll have to say NO, IMO.  Whatever atmosphere one grows up in, that becomes "normal" to them, even if things change later.  If things change, the person may later notice and appreciate it, or sometimes criticize and compare, ala "In my day...".  I grew up from the mid-60s to the late-70s.  There was a lot good about that time - but a lot of what might be considered "bad", too.  I don't resent not having computers when I grew up.  I don't resent growing up during social unrest.  I don't resent hidden opportunities for/lack of role models for/tolerance of sexual abuse towards women, even though I would never want to return to those "dark ages".  I don't resent growing up in a "druggie" era even though drugs have had terrible effects in society and even my own circles.  I don't resent that when I joined my High School track team, it was only year *2* of Girls' Track existence - rather, I feel fortunate that I could experience it.  To resent the past is not constructive; rather, to notice and appreciate what has improved, notice anything that has gone sour, and keep striving to make things better the best we can - that is the way to go.  :)

You think people dwell on it that much?

Hard to say, for it is now getting harder to ask those who were children in the 1930s.

I'd say no since in decades like the 1930s the pop culture is considered iconic and interesting. People loved the music, cartoons, comics, fashion etc. If only the economical situation wasn't so bad. But no being upset about being young in a certain time period is literally just a superficial issue that people today give too much attention to. Unless your life was mostly tragic as a kid (which for most people this isn't the case) then you shouldn't go on about why you're upset that you grew up in a specific era.

This "issue" (if you can call it that) is just something people today made up. It's just another thing that shouldn't be a problem yet people made it into one because...................................... I don't know. Idolizing youth is waste of time. Can't keep dwelling on the past when your future is something you can take part in controlling.


THIS.

Pop culture in the 1930's was actually good. Movie story lines were great, Jazz and Big Band were in, cartoons were funny (but unfortunately sometimes racist), radio shows were fun, and fashion was pretty classy! What was there to hate, pop culturally?

Like people who were young in the 1930s. Did they get angry and resent they had to be young in such a time?


Grunge hello 90s, even tho 90s was a good decade

Like people who were young in the 1930s. Did they get angry and resent they had to be young in such a time?


I feel this way about the 2010s.  My lifetime potential has been severely stunted by coming of age in this decade (technically I came of age in the 2000s but it was this decade that I really became established).  I feel like my personal life would have been much better if I would have been born 10 years earlier or 10 years later.