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A Brief History of Kids Today Are Too Rude

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2022 SIRI STATE OF AFFAIRS Voice assistants Siri and Alexa are ma
2014 Compared with when they were students, Americans today belie
2001 Going to church these days is like going to a park or a picn
1997 About 70 percent of the country believes kids today are rude
1982 CHILDREN ARE 'RUDER AND NASTIER' SCHOOLCHILDREN are becoming
1978 "Kids are disrespectful. It's a sign of the times. We c
1964 "There was no problem maintaining law and order in the
1954 It is true that kids are less respectful than they used to ?
1946 Young Folks Often Rude By EMILY POST Behavior such as descri
1930 Those who remember the politeness of the late Victorian peri
1921 SAYS YOUTH TODAY IS RUDE CHARLES W. ELIOT HOPES TREND IS ONL
1911 Sequence of Bad Mannered Children, Ill-Mannered Youths (From
1906 OLD FASHIONED STYLE DROPPED "No sir", "Yes ma
1896 CHILDREN'S MANNERS In the English press a discussion has ari
1881 MORAL TEACHING TO THE EDITOR Sir--Having noticed of late sev
1877 Disrespectful Children. The question is often asked in these
1868 Alas! what do we see with a frequency painfully significant
1853 It seems to us -- perhaps we are mistaken -- that the spirit
1829 From my childhood I always delighted to collect the fragment

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This clipping about jazz making us have elephantine ears one day quotes Dr. P.O. Pfuffer, Viennese aurist.

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