Originally posted by Hussar:
[qb] If you want to move or visit certain places, you're treated as a crazy person. [/qb]
The more things change, the more they stay the same...when I wanted to spend a year studying at Trinity College in Dublin, my father did everything short of getting a court order to stop me. I went anyway. He said "You are selling your birthright for a mess of pottage." He wanted me to learn frlom his and his father's experiences. I wanted to exlore the world and experience different cultures!
Years later I am able to understand that his generation was too close to their painful European experience and did not understand my generation's need to learn for ourselves. That is reminiscent of the problems that the oldest generation today has with the newest generation not knowing their history.
The culture with which I had the most problems was the one in Texas in the 1970s (spent 5 years there). <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />
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