What similarities are there when talking about teenagers in the modern day to the ones in the post cold war?

Well, teenagers are teenagers and they had the same interests as you do, e.g. boys/girls, fashion,pop music, hating your parents, you know the sort of thing.


It's easier to talk about the differences really and the main one was that they had far less freedom then and far less money.


I can really only speak for England, from personal experience and for one thing we didn't have our own cars. Mostly we used the bus for travelling to work or into town for dancing, movies etc. and we had to make sure we caught the last bus back.


We all lived with our parents, mostly until we got married and earned little money but clothes were cheap , once they came off the ration and we kept up with the latest fashions.


Another big difference is that no one except wealthy people went to University.Now practically everybody does.


However I think the biggest difference of all was that all boys, on reaching the age of 18 had to serve a compulsory two years in either the Army, Navy or Air Force.This meant that, for many, this was their first experience of going abroad as people, generally, did not take foreign holidays at that time.Can you imagine having to do that now?


Of course you are talking about the Cold War but another difference was that then most young people married. Now it's quite rare. People tend to cohabit.What similarities are there when talking about teenagers in the modern day to the ones in the post cold war?
They both are/were under the delusion that they know more about the world than their parents, because ';the world is different than when you were young.';