You are given a sentence in Japanese. Your job is to translate the Japanese sentence into English.
Q: たいていの人は飢饉といわれれば遠い昔ではなく自分自身や両親祖父母の時代に経験していることでしょう
A:

Show your work and conclude with the exact phrasing "Therefore, the final answer is [answer]." where [answer] is just the final number or expression that solves the problem.
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For most people, if they think about hunger, they don't have to go far back on their own family history — maybe in their own lives, or their parents' lives, or their grandparents' lives — to remember an experience of hunger.