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“Even very recently, the elders could say: 'You know, I have been young and you never have been old.' But today's young people can reply: 'You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be.' ... the older generation will never see repeated in the lives of young people their own unprecedented experience of sequentially emerging change. This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal.”

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Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist known for her groundbreaking fieldwork and theoretical contributions. She is renowned for her studies of the Samoan, Arapesh, and Australian Aboriginal peoples, which had a profound impact on the fields of anthropology and sociology. more

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