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Originally Posted by polak
Also, the greatest generation is far from perfect as people seem to think. They might have fought in a war but outside of that? They committed some of the most embarrassing moments of the last century. Racism, Paranoia, Bigotry, Enviromental carelessness, all of these things are qualities of the "greatest" generation. Also remember that personal credit is a relitively recent creation so who knows what the spending habits of earlier generations would have been like had it existed.
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Just to add to this, are we calling the soldiers who fought for the Nazi's part of the greatest generation too?