17 ways Baby Boomers changed the world

Provides, the "worst generation" is not so bad after all!


TheBaby Boomer Generation-The 76.4 million of usBorn between 1946 and 1964"Do not always know the respect we deserve. Especially in recent years, we have become the generational emissary goat for almost all the cultural problems of the planet. The main magazines claim us "broken America"and are"The worst generation. "But it's high time to define the strand hetero.Baby boomers May not have created a utopian society, but we have not left the world in terms we found it. In fact, we are responsible for rather remarkable developments that subsequent generations have largely acquired. Here are some of these things that would not exist without baby boomers, proving that we made the world better.

1
We made driving safer.

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Although the seat belts wereinvented All the way back in 1885, most baby boomers remember young people in which no one wore them. But all this has changed when the baby boomers started arriving from the first time in 1968, with anew law requiring all vehicles are equipped with working seat belts, then in 1984, when the boomer legislators didwearing a seat belt a legal requirement. It is estimated that seat belts have saved more than 255,000 lives between 1975 and 2008, according to theNational Administration on Road Road Safety.

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We have immortalized road trips and travel in general.

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The baby boomers were the first to rush road trips. Of the traveling family of our young - Nothing makes us more nostalgic than the memory of the father who studies aRand McNally Atlas-For road travel poets likeJack KerouacWe were the first generation to prove that it was really the trip, not the destination. In fact, a year 2012AARP study found that baby boomers in general travel more miles a day than people in other age groups.

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We have been rock pioneers 'n' roll.

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Rock pioneers likeElvis Presley andChuck Baime Were not technically baby boomers, but the hearings that kissed them and turned their music into a cultural revolution absolutely. We took a very simple kind of pop music and raised it to a form of art. Go see a boomer artist likeBruce Springsteen Concert does not just concern the excitement of live music; For us, it looks like a spiritual experience.

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We have invented the internet.

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Internet did not take place during the night. It started as the World Wide Web, a system of organization, link and browse the web pages. And he came thanks to a boomer. No, we do not talk aboutAl Gore. We want to say that computer scienceTim Berners-Lee, born in 1955, which created the language of software that as possible web pages in 1989. Young generations can sneer when their parents of boomer or grandparents try to use social media, but without us, they do not would not even behave TWITTER!

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We have created personal computers.

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Computers have become so ubiquitous that it is now considered strange if someonenot own one. But you probably do not understand that eachcomputer You have already owned or Ironiera is thanks to baby boomers likeSteve Wozniak,Steve Jobsand the "father of the personal computer"Ed Roberts, which introduced the very first computer marketed for home use, the Altair 8800 in 1975.

6
We inaugurated in the era of the screen.

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You thinkmillennium are addicted to their phones? Ha, boomersinvented Addiction on the screen! During our young people, we were hypnotized by all that appeared on the small screen, making us feel more connected to the outside world. According toNewsweek, It is estimated that baby boomers watched an average of 12,000 hours of television before you get 16 years old.

7
We launchedSaturday Night Live.

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WhenSaturday Night Live Premiered in 1975 - Straighing Comedy Legends (and Boomers) asJohn Belushi,Bill Murray, andGilda Radner-It was the most important thing on television. And still, 44 years later, it's one of the most discussed comedy shows in the world. Think of the fact that public boomer looked (and debated)SNLfirst sketch aboutPresident Richard Nixonthe same way we look at (and debate)Alec Baldwin's impressions ofDonald Trump Today is actually quite incredible.

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We turned films into cultural events.

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Before filmmakers likeGeorge Lucas andSteven Spielberg-Two boomers-movies were only movies. Ticket lines that have seduced the streets to enter a opening night screening were unthinkable in the 50s and the 60s. But then came the first film "Event" legitimate: Epic de Spielberg from 1975,Jaws.He made a terrified entire nation to go in the water (and possibly titled$ 470 million at International Box Office) And it was not just a fun weekend diversion, either; movies likeJaws andStars warsbecame real cultural events.

9
We volunteered to new heights.

JFK Meets Peace Corp Volunteers
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Baby boomers are often criticized to be the "Me" generation, but we are not as selfish as our reputations would suggest. WhenPresident John F. Kennedy established the body of peace in 1961, creating opportunities for American citizens every day to go abroad and help "Break the obligations of mass misery, "Thousands of letters" paid young Americans to Washington in the hope of volunteering, "according to theHistorical chain. It's a commitment to help others continues to date. "Americans of all ages express their desire to exercise a kind of service to their communities and their nation. But those who have aged in the 1960s lead the charge", note theHarvard Business Review.

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We are lifted for LGBTQIA + rights.

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The fight forLGBTQIA + Rights In many ways, started in 1969 in Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York, where boomer guests, got tired of being harassed by the police, starting to fight. The following year, at the anniversary of theRiots, boomers walked in the streets of New York, in what is considered the countryfirst gay pride Mars. Today, cities and cities throughout the country and the world are organizing their ownCelebrations of prideAnd the younger generations barely realize that they follow in traces of boomers.

11
We fought for gender equality.

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The baby boomers have little invented feminism, but we have definitely directed it to popular culture with the women's release movement that started in the late 1960s. Baby boomers "were the first group to have gained mainly their own money for most of their lives, never arrived before "Jane Caro, author of the bookAccidental feminists,RecountDaily edition. "Before that, the poorest women had to work to make a living, but they were from having to do that. For my generation, he became an aspiration."

12
We protested the war.

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You can not think of the Vietnam War without remembering the protests and burns of fog card. The boomers popularized the idea that you could be a patriot and not to disagree with the way your government is leading the war. Protest in Vietnam "did not make us bums without-trades, selfish and impatriotic," wrotePost of New YorkcolumnistSteve Cuozzo. "By legally avoiding the project was a rational and morally defunished reprimand in the hypocritical way of the government to make war."

13
We launched an environmental activism.

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The boomers were called "theGeneration of the day of the original land"For good reason. People like to criticize the boomers of not doing enough, and that's right, we could have gone bigger tosave the planet. But we care absolutely. We were the first generation to take full out of the force, demanding that we stop polluting the world. And there is science to prove it: a 2012 study onSan Diego State University found that the boomers of their youth were considerablyFollowingcommitted to environmental activism thatGen Xers or Millennials.

14
We made waves in medico-legal analysis.

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Baby boomers lived in a world where serial killers loveTed Bundy,Richard Ramirez, andJohn Wayne Gacy were a horrible reality. But then, a British boomère namedSir Alec Jeffreys, Professor of Genetics at the University of Leicester, discovered sequences in DNA strands that were also distinct and unique as fingerprints. "We could immediately see the potential for forensic investigations," recalled JeffreysAn interview of 2012. Needless to say, discovery had a huge effect on murder investigations. TheRadford Serial Killer database project Found that the 1980s were a height of all times for serial killers in the United States, with 235 separate serial killers operating every year on average over the decade. Over the current decade, there are only 65 serial killers identified at the US each year on average, which is largely thanks to these advances in forensic investigations.

15
We finished the cold war.

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Although political leaders likeRonald Reagan andMikhail Gorbachev Tend to get all the credit to put an end to the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union, in reality, it was the generation of boomer that pushed the most difficult to detect the relationship between these two global superpowers . Like boomer humoristP.J.ROURKE simply indicated in an article forAARP magazine"We shot down the Berlin Wall."

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We have reduced stigma around the divorce.

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For a long time, the divorce came with a social stigma that made an unthinkable option seems. But the boomers have changed all that. According toPEW Research Center, 70% of baby boomers believe that marriage should be on mutual happiness and accomplishment, not just the lifting of a child together. In other words, staying in a marriage for children is not their plan. "Asked to choose between divorce and an unfortunate marriage, baby boomers are more likely than millennia to say that the divorce is preferable," notes the researchers.

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We have increased life expectancy.

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Life expectancy in the United States jumped by almost 30 years over the last century and baby boomers should live much longer than their parents. But it's not just a quantity; This is the quality of these years that really matters. "Boomers are the first generation on the planet to reach 60 years and see another long track upcoming"Thornhill Mate, The President of Think Tank Reflection GenerationsAtlantic. They always wanted to accomplish something, "he added, noting that they concern things like" what is your inheritance is and how are you going to have left the world a better place? " And if you want to live to see 100, here's100 ways of living at 100.

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