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adjl posted...

They also weren't personally affected by those things

My grandmothers were both arguably affected by the female side of the Civil Rights Movement, but they still never really brought it up and talked about it in a way that somehow validated it as a significant phenomenon.

On top of which, my grandparents definitely lived through the period where the adoption and escalation of automobile use completely altered nearly every facet of American life (from how we shop, to how we date, to where we live, to what we eat), which abso-fucking-lutely had a massive impact on their life, and they never really talked about that either.

On the flip-side, I basically grew up during the computer and Internet revolutions, and they absolutely had a huge impact on my life - and I rarely ever discuss them with people in the real world, so it's not as if I'm an example of major cultural impacts being something you constantly tell the next generation about either.