The problem there (to me), is why respect Elders? thats a horrid message, that somehow living longer means your better than people.
Well, I guess I know a few people who agree with you, as they have the most rude, disrespectful
unaware, selfish, me me me, I deserve everything, children, who obviously don't give a rats ass
about adults, and don't realize that the generation before them, and before that, have done much
living to pave the way for the children to have a better life.
If you wanted to teach people to be resepctful, ok, thats amazing, (historically it never takes, another topic). After all, are you not saying Children dress like slobs because they have different fasion than you like?
No, not at all, I'm talking about cleanliness, and neatness, and not falling out of bed and into the
same dirty clothes you wore all week, and no combed hair, and bad breath, and smelly underarms.
I rarely see the elderly being respectful to the young.
Some of the elderly are becoming wary of the young, as there have been many crimes against them
by the young teens in larger urban areas, another total and complete lack of respect and on top of
that, they have become mean and know that the elderly are weaker and slower.
But that you should respect elders, by virtue of them being elder and nothing else is absurd. If you want respect in general, for everybody..again, that is a noble goal. But children are again one of the last places to look.
It is the first place to 'teach' respect and appreciation of what the elderly, and 'just adults' have done
to create a better world for the children coming behind them. I hope we can expect the same from
the children growing up when they become adults, and I hope they are good people and do the same for the next generation.
As I said before, this generation may call you vulgar names, but it tends not to yell out racist ones. And thats a much better thing in my eyes.
Where are you from anyway, as here in Canada the race card isn't played in the same numbers as it
is in the U.S., but of course there are bad people everywhere, but in Canada racial prejudice doesn't loom it's ugly head too often. And all of the races you would claim suffer from comments, also dish out their own, noone is innocent from that.
My husband grew up in an area called 'little Europe', and they all called each other racially negative names, all the time, and were very narrow minded in that respect, and all immigrants.
The only people in this country who need our love and help is the 'first nations', everyone else can look after themselves, as they will give just as much as they take.
I have lived a long time, have never said a racially negative comment to anyone, ever. But being of Irish decent, (my dad born in Dublin), I was once asked where my dad was born, and when they found out, they called me a 'bloody southener', I just laughed at them, and told them I felt sorry for them, which I did.
As I said before, children who are taught to be respectful and polite and considerate of others, and don't talk back to adults, (a normal regular adult, not some sicko), will grow up to be same, and will teach their children same. Makes for a more polite respectful world.
I'm talking in general, and the majority, not the few who don't deserve respect, anyone can go to the exceptions, of course.
