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How To Talk To Boomers And Other Older People In Your Life About Fake News

How To Talk To Boomers And Other Older People In Your Life About Fake News

Boomers and older generations are by no means the only people having trouble in our new and chaotic information environment, although research suggests they have the most pressing challenges. Younger people also face difficulty, which is why so many news literacy programs target K-12 and college students. But the rapid pace of change on online platforms — and the lack of widespread reach of programs like Cyber Seniors — have left some older adults struggling to catch up.

Why City Accents Are Fading in the Midwest – CityLab – Pocket

Why City Accents Are Fading in the Midwest – CityLab – Pocket

The classic accent was most widespread during the city’s industrial heyday. Blue-collar work and strong regional speech are closely connected: If you were white and graduated high school in the 1960s, you didn’t need to go to college, or even leave your neighborhood, to get a good job, and once you got that job, you didn’t have to talk to anyone outside your house, your factory, or your tavern. A regular-joe accent was a sign of masculinity and local cred, bonding forces important for the teamwork of industrial labor.

Why Is It So Hard to Predict the Future? – The Atlantic

Why Is It So Hard to Predict the Future? – The Atlantic

The bet was on, and it was over the fate of humanity. On one side was the Stanford biologist Paul R. Ehrlich. In his 1968 best seller, The Population Bomb, Ehrlich insisted that it was too late to prevent a doomsday apocalypse resulting from overpopulation. Resource shortages would cause hundreds of millions of starvation deaths within a decade. It was cold, hard math: The human population was growing exponentially; the food supply was not. Ehrlich was an accomplished butterfly specialist. He knew that nature did not regulate animal populations delicately. Populations exploded, blowing past the available resources, and then crashed.

Diversity

Cultural diversity is increasing across the world. Migration is bringing new people together, changing the face of cities and countryside.๐Ÿ‘ฅ But new people and new ideas doesn’t mean traditional values are on the way out — it just means they are changing.

Respect for hard work, dignity, or that land that sustains us is not going away just because demographics are changing.

Many liberals want to believe that there will be a surge in demand for liberal policies with the new immigrants. ๐ŸŒ‹Many conservatives bite into that ideology — ignoring the diversity of immigrants or that a sizable number of them are quite conservative.๐Ÿฐ People who tend to immigrant are of a higher social class, seeking a better life, more dedicated then average person towards free enterprise and economic growth.

Are really migrants that come to America to milk cows๐Ÿฎ, work on farms, live in rural communities — all that liberal? Rural life or even hard blue collar life in the city does not promote liberal ideology for sure.๐Ÿšœ And the many immigrants who own small businesses, are not clamoring for more regulation or taxes on small businesses.๐Ÿข Catholics, which many hispanics are, have no love for new abortion facilities popping up in their neighborhoods. ๐Ÿ’’

New people entering into a community can lead to change, for sure. Not all change is bad, more diversity leads to more innovation and growth. Part of embracing diversity is accepting not just new but also existing cultures. ๐Ÿ‘ชChange is tough but with mutual respect between the new and old people of an area, we can have a more diverse stronger ๐Ÿ’ช society.

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BBC – Are we on the road to civilization collapse?

BBC – Are we on the road to civilization collapse?

"Great civilisations are not murdered. Instead, they take their own lives. So concluded the historian Arnold Toynbee in his 12-volume magnum opus A Study of History. It was an exploration of the rise and fall of 28 different civilisations. He was right in some respects: civilisations are often responsible for their own decline. However, their self-destruction is usually assisted."