It’s worth remembering that ‘in your 50s’ now means you grew up in the 80s and were young in the 90s. The ‘old school’ thing, re racial diversity is generational memory - these people grew up in a highly multicultural nation. It wasn’t the 1950s.
Macarena came out in 1993, which was 31 years ago. They were drinking age when this song and music video were blasted everywhere. m.youtube.com/watch?v=zWay...
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I just think anyone who's spent time in the right wing bile pool™ during the last 16 years comes out regurgitating boomer talking points
A multicultural nation, but probably not a multiracial community. The demographics in these areas was extremely white in the 80’s and 90’s.
I remember working for a political party and a guy younger than me kept going "People see the change in their neighborhoods" and I had to remind him neighborhoods were racially diverse in the 80s (and we and others were already here too, forever, too)
One of my mum's first boyfriends was black, her mum didn't approve but didn't do anything to break it up It's wild to me that racism is/has become a thing with that generation
That's a weird way to spell "I'm racist but struggle to articulate that I a way that won't get me sacked from my job if the bosses find out."
So I’m 49 and I will say that the *media* we grew up on was white, white, white. The only “diversity” in the TV rotation in my childhood home was Cosby and Diffrent Strokes. The US was as multicultural then as it is now, but if you’re white and made no effort to see that, you didn’t.So I’m 49 and I will say that the *media* we grew up on was white, white, white. The only “diversity” in the TV rotation in my childhood home was Cosby and Diffrent Strokes. The US was as multicultural then as it is now, but if you’re white and made no effort to see that, you didn’t.
“Wish I could go back to the days when England was for the English… and I was listening to hardcore jungle.”
I'm mid 50s and you'd have to move those dates back a decade for me, but yes.
This was my feeling exactly! I grew up in the 80s: it was a diverse society.