[speaker001:] here we go
[speaker002:] okay um now we're supposed to talk about social activities right
[speaker001:] well the changes that's occurred like it how was it maybe ten twenty thirty years ago as opposed to what it is today
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] how we're living socially in comparison to maybe from that time period from ten twenty or whatever you remember it to be
[speaker002:] I think um well I guess it would be like your generation compared to my generation I think your generation is um what do I say uh uh they're they're they're polite they have more respect for other people just in in general I think and just just towards people and property and um I I guess they would would be more conservative some of them I guess
[speaker001:] yeah we are uh somewhat conservative but as far as the uh socially our crime rate has increased and although it's more publicized as opposed to what it used to be it seems like
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] violent crime is on the increase from what I've seen and um our prison population has significantly increased I would say um our economy too is really it's just not what it used to be in the sixties or even fifties from history from what I've read and
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] uh even the well it started spiraling down I suppose in the seventies and uh our recovery uh economically has not been like it used to be to me also our nuclear family is is not the same because more people are living together that aren't married uh
[speaker002:] uh-huh uh-huh
[speaker001:] I don't I don't know if uh can't make any judgments of that nature but uh I don't really want to either because I have no problems about it either way
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and um kids are I I suppose have been raised by single parents more than they ever used to
[speaker002:] yes I agree with
[speaker001:] women are more on the rise too so far as getting their careers established and uh they don't no longer feel dependent upon men
[speaker002:] uh-huh well well do you think that that maybe I mean uh I've heard different you know like um like I know my mom and like other ladies they complain because they think that um the women now are too busy with their own personal life and career that they really don't have time for their kids
[speaker001:] that's probably true I mean they they are a lot of them that have to put their kids into day care or having more with baby sitters and especially if they don't have boy friends or husbands and uh I guess that's why you always hear these stories about kids being neglected
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah
[speaker001:] uh in fact uh there was one lady in this area she was caught going to work and leaving her daughter in her car all day
[speaker002:] oh my gosh just a baby
[speaker001:] not a baby uh she was old enough to uh I would say she was five to eight years old somewhere along that range but that's just an extreme example I would imagine you know the situations are out there
[speaker002:] oh my gosh uh-huh yeah
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] well as um well I think the education like our education has um increased dramatically but then I think also that we're forgetting like basic things like we should know
[speaker001:] I agree there
[speaker002:] like I I think well um in the morals and values of like my generation for the most for most people are totally different from the morals and valleys um values of like per se your generation but I think as we get older it gets to your you know what I mean I think the kids now are are I would say louder now until after they reach like twenty five and then I think they really have a strong decline and start to settle down and realize things
[speaker001:] yeah um I could agree with that because used to conservatism was inherent at a much younger age
[speaker002:] uh-huh yeah because I think we're given more now whereas you had to work for everything and kids nowadays are just given so much that they really don't have to work and you know and they they don't have any intent to go working until they have to
[speaker001:] uh-huh that's an agreeable topic there um what else considering beside family economics um our transportation system has changed for us I mean we can it we can now travel around the world in no time it's just a hop skip and a jump to get into a plane to go from the east to the west coast and um
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] well I I think what's happened too is just our technology is just advancing so rapidly that and there's so much information available out there that folks out there just have a hard time keeping up aside from just going through their daily routine of living to get from day to day
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and to keep abreast of the knowledge out there we got to constantly read go to school uh TV watching has sure hasn't gone too much out the door because TV is still well the cable system and the satellite dishes has made it to where a lot of people can just leave regular TV programming and watch a lot of other a variety of programs out there as well as use of the VCR
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] so that I don't know if it really hampers or it helps our education system
[speaker002:] I don't know because I know I don't watch while I'm up here at school I don't watch hardly any TV like Thursday night I like to sit down and watch a few shows but other than that
[speaker001:] do you watch LA Law
[speaker002:] no I don't watch that I used to but I don't any more
[speaker001:] I like that
[speaker002:] but all I mean there are even though there's a few up here we call them couch potatoes they love to sit in front of the TV I I said but for the for the most part I will I will well I live in an all girls dorm but for the most part we're all between the ages of eighteen and like twenty one
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and there isn't really a lot of TV watching
[speaker001:] well that's good at least you're hitting the books right
[speaker002:] yeah well they're either hitting the books or something else I don't know what but I know oh well I guess they have their crowds like during the soap operas you know like in between classes or something
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] but I can't say that there's really that many people that like sit in front of the TV all day
[speaker001:] well that's a change then oh of course going to school too it's different from the home environment
[speaker002:] uh-huh but then um like I know this girl she's doing her student teaching or she's just working like within the school and um yesterday she was at the kindergarten and there's this little boy he like didn't want to do anything and he said I'm not doing this I don't like it and he sat at his desk with two pencils in his hand and pretend like he's playing Nintendo
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] you know so uh I don't know how I mean I never really watched that a lot of TV when I was younger but my parents really didn't allow us to watch that much TV so I don't know
[speaker001:] I agree with your parents because uh TV kind of ruined me because that's that's all that we had
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] well not really but I mean it's uh for the top medium of entertainment
[speaker002:] yeah well we watch a lot of I guess we watched a lot of TV in the winter time but in the summer like right now my mom well like she doesn't let us watch TV until like eight o'clock at night you know are like
[speaker001:] it was even at your age
[speaker002:] well like my younger brothers and sisters at home like when it starts getting nice outside in the summer and everything she'll she makes us go outside even now when I go home for the summer she makes us go outside and we're allowed to come in and watch TV until it's dark because she doesn't like the TV herself
[speaker001:] uh-huh uh-huh I see
[speaker002:] and if it was up to her we wouldn't have one so you know she feels that kids are too dependent on it also
[speaker001:] uh-huh oh is there anything else
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] um
[speaker002:] what about in our work ethics
[speaker001:] work ethics oh right now it's getting it's maybe getting better
[speaker002:] I I
[speaker001:] um a little of course we're we're we're having to weather through the savings and loans and
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] all the other scandalous items that well the greed that overwhelmed us in the eighties
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and uh I think I think it's going to have to have it's patchwork put on us
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] because we have so much to pay for now it's going to be really passed on to your generation and maybe a few others
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] including what's left of ours
[speaker002:] well I really can't think of anything else
[speaker001:] well it was nice talking to you
[speaker002:] uh-huh it was nice talking to you too
[speaker001:] and uh what are majoring in