Chrysti The Wordsmith: Generation Gap

Greetings and welcome to Christie the wordsmith. When the baby boomers began to come of age in the 1980s they embraced values antithetical to those of their parents abandoning American organized religion for example. Boomers turn to mysticism astrology and Buddhism and Vietnam War protests shocked the older generation that had just been involved in a cooperative effort to claim a world war victory. Boomers dismantled the sexual regulations that their parents had defined and observed. Youth fashion and musical tastes strained the tolerance of the G.I. generation which was also mystified by its children's willingness to openly experiment with recreational drugs. This significant moral political and social distance between boomer youth and their elders wasn't 1067 given a name. The generation gap the term and the phenomenon became a national obsession for the remainder of the 1960s. So Vogue was the moniker generation gap that two San Francisco entrepreneurs claimed part of it as a name for their small clothing store in 1969. Don

and Doris Fisher opened a shop in downtown San Francisco that sold nothing but jeans the essential component of the counterculture wardrobe. They called it the Gap hoping to attract the people on the youthful side of the generational divide here in the 21st century. Gap Inc. Serves millions of boomers most of whom are now older than their parents were at the apex of the 1960s generation gap. I'm Christie the wordsmith. CHRISTIE The wordsmith is sponsored by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Zoot enterprises a high tech firm in Bozeman Montana offering challenging careers and innovative solutions for the financial services industry. Zoot web dot com.