You're normally 12 in 6th grade, the class she observed, and 9/11 happened eight years ago. Most of those kids were four. They weren't aware of what was happening when it happened. That really struck me hard. How could these kids not know the emotion that 9/11 had? How could they not actively live that moment?
This brought on the topic of other things that these kids, Generation Z as they are called, did not grow up with. They don't know grunge of the early and mid 90s or the boy band pop phenomenon of the late 90s. They don't know what life was like before computers were a household item. Everyone always had a cellphone and slow 56k internet connections were ancient history. They only know the World Trade Center from pictures and they don't know how crazy people became over Y2K.
They only know President Clinton as a historical figure. They don't know who Princess Diana was. They only know shows like Full House, Family Matters, NYPD Blue and Legends of the Hidden Temple from reruns. They have no idea who Joe Camel is. They don't know what it was like to go past airport security without a boarding pass. They don't know what Zaire is and only know the Rwandan genocide through a movie. They don't know that McDonald's ever had non-white meat chicken nuggets.
Both of us the realized when these kids are our age, we'll be around 30. We of course dropped the conversation and then went back to studying.
Side note: Kid Cudi is a pretty darn good
Day 'N' Night (Crookers Remix) has to be one of my favorite songs of the moment. Did I mention his hometown is about 10 minutes away from where I'm from?
-Chris
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