Generational Culture
This weekend, my husband and I had a lesson in generational culture. We were at a wedding dance with our two 20-something daughters, son-in-law and one daughter's new fiance'.
(There's no place I'd rather be than anywhere with the five of them.)
During the best man's toast, a phrase was said that made all the people under 40 all laugh and nod their heads in understanding, while the rest of us just wondered "what was so funny about that?" (My son-in-law said, "That is a line from Napoleon Dynamite".) Thus began the beginning of our inquest into our understanding of this generational culture.
As we were leaving the dance, one of our daughters said the bride and groom must have really liked Napoleon Dynamite, because there were a lot of songs from the movie played at the dance. My husband and I said, "Oh?"
We asked what that movie was about, anyway. And would we like it? Would we understand it?
They thought we would, so our son-in-law loaned us their DVD of the movie. He quoted some lines from it, and told us it was made by Mormons (I think that's what he said), and so there's nothing questionable about it...in fact, there's not even any caffeine used in it.
So, for our Saturday evening entertainment, we watched the DVD. And we enjoyed it!
NOW, we know...
why the younger generation were dancing with their arms outstetched on one another's shoulders during one song at the wedding dance, about milk tasting contests, and why our cousin danced in a certain way in a video he showed us at last new year's get-together. And I'm sure we'll now be in the "know" about hundreds of other comments and references made by the under 40 crowd.
And the next time we're at a wedding dance, we'll really understand what's going on. Unless, of course, there's a new movie by then that has broadened the generational gap once again!
(There's no place I'd rather be than anywhere with the five of them.)
During the best man's toast, a phrase was said that made all the people under 40 all laugh and nod their heads in understanding, while the rest of us just wondered "what was so funny about that?" (My son-in-law said, "That is a line from Napoleon Dynamite".) Thus began the beginning of our inquest into our understanding of this generational culture.
As we were leaving the dance, one of our daughters said the bride and groom must have really liked Napoleon Dynamite, because there were a lot of songs from the movie played at the dance. My husband and I said, "Oh?"
We asked what that movie was about, anyway. And would we like it? Would we understand it?
They thought we would, so our son-in-law loaned us their DVD of the movie. He quoted some lines from it, and told us it was made by Mormons (I think that's what he said), and so there's nothing questionable about it...in fact, there's not even any caffeine used in it.
So, for our Saturday evening entertainment, we watched the DVD. And we enjoyed it!
NOW, we know...
why the younger generation were dancing with their arms outstetched on one another's shoulders during one song at the wedding dance, about milk tasting contests, and why our cousin danced in a certain way in a video he showed us at last new year's get-together. And I'm sure we'll now be in the "know" about hundreds of other comments and references made by the under 40 crowd.
And the next time we're at a wedding dance, we'll really understand what's going on. Unless, of course, there's a new movie by then that has broadened the generational gap once again!
posted by weso at 10:24 AM
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