Times Do Change

Ever since I was little I noticed that my Grandparents always said, “yes sir and yes ma’am”. I guess this rubbed off on my Father because he tends to do the same. This way of communicating never rubbed off on my brother or I.  As times has gone by social interaction has changed greatly. I know that the way I speak to my Mother, by saying “sup Mom”, she would never even dare to say to her Mother. Also, over time addressing people by their last names has diminished as well. We tend now to address a vast majority of those we know by their first names. Even my professor, for example, want my classmates and me to call them by their first name.  To my mother, this is a foreign concept.  She insists that she would never be able to call her professor or authority figures by their first names out of respect. Over the years, the way that people socially interact with each other has changed greatly. Some may see the way we interact now as rude and disrespectful.  While others would say that this interaction is the way of the future.

Changing gears completely, there has also been a major transition in civil rights, specifically Women’s right. We’ve come a long way since the 1900’s when women weren't able to vote. Truly if you think about it back then Women weren’t able to do much of anything besides be wives and homemakers for their families. Their role in society has done a complete 360. Nowadays, Women are CEO of companies, members of congress. In addition many votes in political elections, work on Wall Street and in the World Trade Centers like my Mother once did. Some own their own business, teach at top institutions across the country. They do all this and still have time to be a Mother as well as a  homemaker. In the 1900’s many would have never expected that Women would have made such tremendous gains.  The role of a Women and the rights that they currently obtain have come very far since the 1900’s after all they are now the pioneers in our society today.