How bad is your googling habit and what does it mean?

You boys need to keep in mind that we older people are closer to history than you are. Therefore we know more. Can you tell me, without consulting Lord Google Almighty, what you know about the Zuit Suit Riots or how the Silent Generation got its name? They explain everything from post-war pop fashion to roots of twentieth-century social rebellion.”HM

I use google may be once a week to look up something. I do use google news a lot though. I just click on the news button and read the articles that come up.

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I have news for you. Even if you told us to google to figure out what these things were, I would still not google. I'd just wait for someone to say something about it to learn what it is.But to answer your question directly, I don't have a clue what the hell those things are.

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Closer doesn't necessarily give you a better view. You can't see the forest for the trees, as they say. Ah, but roots have roots and those roots have roots and those roots have roots.... Don't jump into the middle of history and pretend that what you remember is the beginning of all.-------------As for Google, a wider variety of information should make us more selective, but does it?When we eat at a restuarant with forty items on the menu, we don't just pick the first one. The Google buffet might have forty million items, so it isn't practical to consider them all - but we should still make an effort to sample more than the specials that Google recommends.

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Yes. I don't need to consult google to know that I know absolutely nothing about the Zuit Suit Riots.

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Those who would sacrifice an essential liberty for a temporary security will lose both, and deserve neither. -- Benjamin FranklinWe see monsters where science shows us windmills. -- Phat

Just from memory of 8th-grade civics, without any verification via internet (as you request), and therefore extremely tentatively and almost certainly wrongly on many counts, the Zoot Suit Riots (I do remember that you've spelled it wrong) were a series of altercations between shore-leaved sailors and the local gangs, who dressed in striped, baggy suits called "Zoot suits", that arose amid the swing clubs of late 1950's San Francisco.Or something. Some city in California, some sailors, some guys in funny suits with big hats, switchblades, and swing music is all I remember. I imagine a fair bit of that is conflated with Zoot Suit Riot, the first album from Cherry Poppin' Daddies, back in 1997. The above was an attempt to fill in the blanks with guessing. (I'm usually pretty good at that, or at least convincing.)

You're pretty close to right on. (also without using Google)

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Gosh, you're right about the name. I don't know where I came up with "Zuit" instead of "Zoot." I shouldda googled it. But I think it took place in LA in the mid 40s. I equate it with the first wave of juvenile delinquency, which was setting into an incipient youth culture while all our fathers where away at war. By the time they got home the worms were out of the can, and even I, a corny Midwestern kid, was wearing peg pants by the late 40s.”HM

History is like Chinese Whispers. The closer you are to the source the more accurate the reporting.”HM

with an onion on my belt....which was the style at the time.TTFN,WK

As I said, The Source™ - of "juvenile delinquency", for example - goes back millennia, not decades. Effectively, you're no closer to the source than anybody else.Here's what I Googled:

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I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on
the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless
beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and
respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and
impatient of restraint.
--- Hesiod, Eighth Century B.C.

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"The world is passing through troublous times. The young people of
today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for
parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as
if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is
foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are forward, immodest
and unladylike in speech, behavior and dress."
--- Peter the Hermit, 1274

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We didn't have onions, but we had skinny, leather belts to hold up our pegged pants. My GI father and I had wars over it.”HM

Back to my point precisely!”HMEdited by Hoot Mon, : No reason given.

After I answered I Wiki'd it, and you're right. LA, 1942. And it was sailors and soldiers vs. Mexican-american gangs, I had thought they were Italians for some reason.Anyway I gave it the ol' college try, because you asked. Ah, so you're the Silent Generation.

I don't understand what "pegged pants" are.