Back 'N The Days v. Nowadays

So I don't know many people other than my parents, that are comfortable enough with me to let me know what life was like 20 and 40 years ago. So instead, I interviewed my roommate's parents who satisfy the 40+ and her siblings(one boy and one girl) who satisfied the 20+. It was quite interesting to find out that their experiences were not that different. Her mother had started that they were expected to go to school, get good grades, participate in many activities as possible; college was not an option, it was an expectation. For the men, they had be "cool", no car means no ladies. No job, no ladies. For the women, their skirts were no where near as short as they are now. Tight clothes were frowned upon. The women had to "fit the image", they caked on make-up, shopped at the same popular outlets. I can tell that being a lady then is almost the exact opposite of what is excepted now. Her siblings info was pretty much the same which makes sense because after their generation was when the rebelling began. I can most definitely decipher the era change for men and women. The balance beam has switched up, one of my 20 year old male acquaintance stated that much is expected of him "the buffer the better, the smarter the more wealthier.." as for women, we grew into independency. My sister who is shy of 26 says that doesn't depend on any body because now everyone is for them selves. It has become a world of survival of the fittest now. I can only imagine what it's be like 20+ years from now, when we are the actual adults >:)