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It's crazy how culture shifts over time. There are a lot of things that were not as customary as they are now. My mother often reminds me of this, especially when I don't want to speak to people when we see them in public. The thing that is so funny is that people think that cursing and promiscuity wasn't around in the 50s and 60s and that's why they are so ideal. Obviously, everything that we deal with now, people dealt with years before. 

It's ideal to view the past through photographs. Have you ever wondered why your relatives don't smile in any of the old photographs? It's cause they were unhappy. No, I'm joking. I don't know why they didn't smile. Maybe they did for the same reason that we make ridiculous faces in all of our selfies... just because we can. I just think that what you see in photographs makes the past quite idealistic; however, they dealt with a lot of inequality and "keep bad things under wraps" mindset in places that we don't. Young girls were sent away when they got pregnant at sixteen, now they get television shows. 

Our culture is constantly evolving and I think that's a good thing in some ways. We may not like all the new things that we have, but we are much better off than we were in 1958. Now we can curse in public and people don't call your parents. Well, in Mississippi they might...

catch you later,

Karleigh

"Do not raise your children the way your parents raised you; they were born for a different time."// Abi bin Abi Taleb (599—661 A.D.)