People of every generation have a tendency to think that the "kids today" are worse in various ways than the kids of their own childhoods. But the kids growing up today are a lot more tolerant and open minded than kids even 25 years ago, and that's a good thing. Tonight I had an amusing example of that.
We were driving past the local country club (still 99% white), and I suddenly recalled a debutante party I attended there when I was about 20 years old. Yes, when I was around that age, I had several friends who had "coming out" parties and dances, and I was a guest at some of them. As I was remembering that, it suddenly occurred to me that I never hear about debutante events or parties anymore, even though I have two teenage children growing up in the same southern, private school milieu in which I grew up.
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