Generation Gap Legends
January 3rd, 2009
photo taken from cornwall.gov.uk
Thought of in the 1960s was the description of the inability of older and younger people to understand each others lives and values. Older people, in today’s view, find the music, fashion, and slang of younger people as incomprehensible much like youngsters who cannot appreciate the accomplishments and history of their parent’s generation.
There are a series of stories, which are allegedly true, that describes how young people mix up or even misunderstand events in history, like confusing Neil Armstrong (astronaut) with Neil Young (pop musician).
(Source: Brunvand, Jan H. Encyclopedia of Urban Legends. 2001.)
