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[quote=Anonymous]I'm GenX and almost 49 so I started working in the 90's in NY. Babysitting and then working as a cashier at a  grocery store, clothing store, shoe store, ice cream shop, camp, etc. I did a lot of customer service jobs as a teen so know exactly how hard/easy it is.

Culturally I think the music was crossing diversity lines in a different way. White people loving R&B, rap that was easy to hear and understand (Naughty By Nature's OPP was huge when I was in 9th grade, for example, then Tupac had great hits). Then grunge and flannel - being depressed and edgy became cool in a new way. But race relations were tense. Rodney King, the Crown Heights riots in '91 and Yankel Rosenbaum, OJ Simpson, etc. I recall my dad getting told to get out of the city one day during riots (white jewish man) and he shoved his way on a packed train and his coat was outside the door for the hour-long ride home.

Politically Clinton was president most of the 90's and we as a society completely threw Monica under the bus - the jokes about her were relentless.

My dad got laid off in '92. So for my family, there was a big economic downturn. He got a new job but it didn't pay as much.  By the time I was 14 I no longer got allowance, we no longer went out to eat, got bagels, vacations, no extras.

In terms of LGBTQ, nobody at my 1000+ HS was gay outwardly, but we hurled the F word around. At the same time nobody where I lived would EVER do what was done to Matthew Sheppard ('98) or use the F word at anyone who was gay or lesbian. We used the R word liberally, but our school had a special ed program for kids with down's and we were all very kind to them. [/quote]

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