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And another comment -- it's amazing that the Imus In the Morning program lasted until 2018 when he retired. A show like that wouldn't last 5 days if it was being launched in today's world.
That's actually a pretty common word in some Asian communities in CA (source: many Asian friends).
It's certainly only used with each other, and generally used to mock newer immigrants (generally in a playful way from what I've observed).
Yes, I know. It was an Asian friend who taught me about it in the first place. Interestingly, I worked for a while with many Asians from different countries and they all said negative things about the OTHER countries. So disliking people because they have a different culture is not unique to white Americans as the left would have you believe.
And another comment -- it's amazing that the Imus In the Morning program lasted until 2018 when he retired. A show like that wouldn't last 5 days if it was being launched these days.
Ditto, I was born in 1938 and grew up in the Forties and Fifties.
However, I can remember adults snig gering at Father Knows Best, Ozzie and Harriet, etc. because they found them so slick-as-a-whistle idealized middle class that they might as well have been set on Mars as far as working class people were concerned.
"That was the way it was" could not have been said for a very, very large slice of the American population in the Fifties. Our lives had far less syrup and sugar, and far more spice and a lot of pepper. It was more like a pizza than whipped cream.
Ditto, I was born in 1938 and grew up in the Forties and Fifties.
However, I can remember adults snig gering at Father Knows Best, Ozzie and Harriet, etc. because they found them so slick-as-a-whistle idealized middle class that they might as well have been set on Mars as far as working class people were concerned.
"That was the way it was" could not have been said for a very, very large slice of the American population in the Fifties. Our lives had far less syrup and sugar, and far more spice and a lot of pepper. It was more like a pizza than whipped cream.
While I am not nearly as old as you, I grew up in the 60's, and 70's but remember the idealized, White Bread America those shows portrayed. It may NOT have been exactly what we were, but it is what we ASPIRED to be. Honest, law abiding, sometimes a bit mischievous, hard working, and American. Not Gay, not male buffoons, not people scamming the system, not overly critical of our country, nor society.
[font="Garamond"]....Actually, my mom had no pearls, but she did mop the floor dressed up for work. Most families in my block had stay at home moms, as did my cousins who lived nearby, we never locked our doors. I walked to school, times were gentler, the pace was slower, in the 60s everything changed.
Not in my home town. Life was largely the same. It wasn't until the Seventies that I saw widespread change starting to make its appearance there. It took time for national political events, urban events and events on college campuses to filter down to real life in the rest of the country. As someone already pointed out, lots of bubbles in American society and not all - by any means - reflected in the squeaky-clean world of Beaver, Father Knows Best, et al. The Archie Bunkers were legion.
Hmmm, the religious right were the ones complaining about what can and can't be on TV for most of TV's history. Remember how 2 actors couldn't be shown in the same bed even acting the role of a married couple because it was too taboo. And I don't mean sexual scenes. On the Dick Van Dyke show, Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore have 2 separate beds in their bedroom. This went on for years as Christians made TV rules and they cheered. They are now mad that they don't get to make all the noise about how the TV is bothering them and people triggered by other things are more noisy now.
Do people not realize that many millennials are pushing 40????
I'm 33, and I love Seinfeld.
Who raised these kids anyway? Oh wait...
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