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In article <mSKnh.2414$A8.2035@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
 "0tterbot" <spl@t.com> wrote:

> it's an interesting theory - the only problem i can find with it is that i 
> think it doesn't pan out in reality :-) i'd have to think about that more to 
> be sure where i stand on it, but as a 36y.o. child of baby boomers (dh is 38 
> & also the child of boomers), it certainly doesn't work in our house, & 
> thinking of people i know, it doesn't seem to work there either.
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> my parents were always broke when we were growing up - do you think that 
> might be the real key? privilege vs lack thereof?

Yes -- I was going to list the exceptions but didn't bother.  For example, 
Boomer-age migrants generally don't have the Boomer mindset because they 
didn't have the usual Boomer experiences -- they were too busy learning 
English/working/studying/saving.  The ones who migrated for purely economic 
reasons, however, have children who are a lot like Baby-Boomers, because the 
parents are giving the kids everything they missed out on themselves, such as 
fancy weddings.  

My sister has a friend whose parents put money away every week for her 
wedding.  By the time she was 21 they had so much money in the account that 
they used some of it to pay for the 21st... All the guests got a half-bottle 
of champagne to take home.  Inscribed with the girl's name and birthday 
details!  Goodness knows what they did for the wedding.  Engraved ingots as 
bomboniere?!

So yes, if your Boomer parents were very poor, that's probably why you don't 
think like that.  They had better things to do than consider their own 
self-actualisation, or do I mean self-aggrandisement.

-- 
Chookie -- Sydney, Australia 
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"Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You may 
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Kerry Cue