2007-03-27 14:47:54 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Maybe not stronger but definantlly they were brave and willing to sacrifice for the betterment of mankind. They were willing to risk life and limb for freedom therefore they have earned our respect.
2007-03-27 14:55:25 · answer #1 · answered by s. grant 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no I believed that their society was a very different one.
For example they may seem more secure and calm, but then they never did experience the amount of redundancy or job turn over, the company having technology take over and job security dissapear.
They were accustomed to the nuclear family- mum, dad, kids and relatives close by, but now our societies breed iscolation, marked by divorce, loosing the rights to the childres, or just having to work to the point where you drink your self unconcious to block it out. I am not saying the elders never had it so bad, but I am saying they had avery different society than us, they didnot have drink and drugs and crime at the scary levels we have it today. The -for example- could leave their front doors open and not get burgled. Its a more scary world out there now and I doubt anyone- the elderly included would expect an intact home when they returned if they went out and left the front door open.
On top of this they didnt have the constant anxiety of communicating to others through materialistic objects- clothes, shoes, bag, car, house, where the kids go to school, as their society spent more time talking with one another in a way we today do not have time or energy for. This adds to our vague nhostility towards one another, and in return is also left with us feeling the anxiety and presumtion that others are judging us in the way we judge them and what if we have let ourselves down in some way!
They also didnt have global warming, the threat of nucllear bombs/terrorsm, mad cow diesease, the congestion of cars...etc to also put them on edge. The even had families to come home to at night. I think the fact we are more anti social and competative than they were is testamont to how iscolated we are and give an impression of unhappiness through life as oppose to just being too weak and not deserving as much respect.
2007-03-27 22:04:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes they deserve respect but we are a generation in our war years so I don't know if I would say that the older generations our stronger then us
2007-03-27 21:56:09 · answer #3 · answered by goldenbrowngod 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they didnt know how not to be. life 60 years ago was a whole lot different than it is now... even the structure of society has changed...
everyone would know everyone in a village, you'd certainly know everyone who lived in your street... nowaddays we dont even know the name of the neighbour 5 doors away, and we probably wont ever see him...
2007-03-27 21:58:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. they had no choice but to be strong. war gives people a strong sense of purpose, that's why they demand so much respect (or other people on their behalf), but they are still ordinary people like you and me, we just never got the "chance" to "prove" that we are strong too (fortunately if you ask me...)
but let them have it, they did good.
2007-03-27 22:09:27 · answer #5 · answered by furryeyeballs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My dad was in WW11 he never spoke about it untill late in life when the memories of what the japanese did to him haunted him to his death.
2007-03-31 14:21:18 · answer #6 · answered by Ollie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
correct
just like wagon said
2007-03-27 22:04:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What are you talking about? Do you have a bullet in your head?
2007-03-29 11:50:17 · answer #8 · answered by Drunvalo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
too right
2007-03-27 21:51:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋