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Joseph Szabo’s pictures of American adolescents

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  1. AIorNot · · focus · HN ↗
    Lovely pics, but no country as much as America idolizes and worships its adolescents..MTV, VH1, now instagram, tiktok and all that.. according to mass media we spend the rest 50 years of our lives trying to recapture that short youthful phase.. in reality for a lot people adolescence was a painful and thankfully short period from which you matured and and were able to appreciate adulthood.. nothing wrong with few gray hairs too
    1. skissane · · focus · HN ↗
      > Lovely pics, but no country as much as America idolizes and worships its adolescents.

      I don't think US culture is significantly different on this point from that of the rest of the core Anglosphere. So, I doubt "no country as much as America" is true.

      1. speedstyle · · focus · HN ↗
        I'm British and I think it's quite different.
        1. skissane · · focus · HN ↗
          I’m Australian and I’m not sure it is

          In some ways Australia is more US-influenced than the UK is though

          It also wouldn’t surprise me if one’s experiences of the topic depend on factors such as which generation you belong to, your subculture, etc

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