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The general standpoint in my young days had a certain humility. You accepted what you were. You had assets and you had liabilities. Like a hand at cards, having been dealt it, you sorted your cards and decided how best to play them. There was, I am almost sure, less envy and resentment of those more gifted or better off. If some young friends had expensive or exciting toys one did not expect or demand to have them oneself. I might say to my mother, "Freda has a wonderful doll's house. I wish I had one like that", and my mother would reply placidly, "Yes, it's nice for Freda. Of course her parents are much richer than we are." Nowadays it seems to be "Marylyn has got a bicycle, why can't I have one?" as though it were one's right.
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Тут "сейчас"- это начало 1960-х, если не конец 50-х. И с тех пор все скатилось в ту сторону еще сильнее. А ведь очень верно она говорит, вот такой подход как был во время ее молодости - более правльный.
The general standpoint in my young days had a certain humility. You accepted what you were. You had assets and you had liabilities. Like a hand at cards, having been dealt it, you sorted your cards and decided how best to play them. There was, I am almost sure, less envy and resentment of those more gifted or better off. If some young friends had expensive or exciting toys one did not expect or demand to have them oneself. I might say to my mother, "Freda has a wonderful doll's house. I wish I had one like that", and my mother would reply placidly, "Yes, it's nice for Freda. Of course her parents are much richer than we are." Nowadays it seems to be "Marylyn has got a bicycle, why can't I have one?" as though it were one's right.
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Тут "сейчас"- это начало 1960-х, если не конец 50-х. И с тех пор все скатилось в ту сторону еще сильнее. А ведь очень верно она говорит, вот такой подход как был во время ее молодости - более правльный.
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Date: 2020-01-05 07:57 pm (UTC)Spoiling children
Date: 2020-01-05 09:05 pm (UTC)Do you mean that nowadays parents tend to spoil their [single] child?
Note that children in the past tried to get what they want -- the same way as modern children try it now. It is parents' response that is [somewhat] different nowadays.
Still, there is a limit to how much parents indulge their child. If parents' income is only at a middle-class level, they simply cannot afford a yacht for their offspring.
Re: Spoiling children
Date: 2020-01-05 10:09 pm (UTC)Re: Spoiling children
Date: 2020-01-05 10:42 pm (UTC)No matter how loud a person is claiming that they need society to pay them more -- society does not really start to pay more based on these claims.
Re: Spoiling children
Date: 2020-01-06 11:17 pm (UTC)Re: Spoiling children
Date: 2020-01-06 11:28 pm (UTC)Не очень-то "получают":
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https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-warren/senator-elizabeth-warren-backs-reparations-for-black-americans-idUSKCN1QA2WF
A 2016 poll by Marist College commissioned by WGBH radio station in Boston found that 68 percent of Americans do not think reparations should be paid to the descendents of slaves, compared with 26 percent who said they should. Among African-Americans, 58 percent support paying reparations and 35 percent oppose them.
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И даже существенная доля потенциальных получателей - отказывается от этих развращающих подачек.