How fast the life changes

Dayelineth: My grannies made their own clothes, teens of my family didn ’t have cellphones and used a public telephone to communicate with others, my grandparents worked in the fields since they were little and that kept them strong, they used to wash their clothes on a stone and tortillas were made handmade and cooked with firewood. Likewise, they had other stuff that were recently invented in those years and were popular and important for them. Ximena: I spoke with my parents about how their lifestyle was in the past, they agreed on the following points: ·Entertainment: Table games, cinema, theater ·Electronic devices: TV, turntable ·Sports: Basketball, football ·Junk food: Sabritas, popcorn ·Transport: Taxi, bus, bike ·Music: pop 90s, rock, rap, ranchera Guadalupe: My predecessors were from Hidalgo, on my dad’ s side, and on my mom ’ s were from Acambay. My dad moved to Acambay and then he met my mom. They liked to spend the time together playing video games on a PlayStation that they had, listening to music on the radio, going to dances or watching movies at the cinema. When the first mobile consoles started to be sold, they bought a PSP to play when they were bored. My dad played soccer with his friends and my mom accompanied him to his matches. One of their most usual activities was going out to have dinner together, they loved to eat pizza and hamburgers. The music they listened to on the radio or stereos were duranguense, banda, and cumbia. Finally, they had to transport to their works by taxi, but when they started to live together in Acambay they got by foot to their works.

Entertainment:

·Television was the most popular mean to entertain people. There were many types of T.V programs, but most watched ones by people were the soup operas, football matches, spectacles programs and the news. ·The most important forms of entertainment for people in the 1950s revolved around music. They spent time listening to music and going to dances. They met in squares of their towns to hang out with other people.

Electronic devices:

Disc phones began to be sold in mass around the year 1954. The red Numbers did not only contain digits, and before dialing you had to include the letter corresponding to the telephone exchange. In the event of a long-distance call, the operator had to be dialed and the zero had to be used to contact the help desk.

Sports:

·Normally, sports were played with the same regulation we have nowadays. Only the way you call strategies, your way of playing or ways that you can carry out changed drastically in different sports fields. ·In the way of dressing in any sport, especially sports such as soccer, basketball, baseball, billet, football; The narrowness of their type of clothing changed a lot since because of they had a very extroverted shape, their accessories were very large, and now they are a bit close to the body.

Junk food:

·They had a different diet because there were not so many fast-food chains. ·Also, because before the food used to be only prepared at home, although they bought fruit and vegetables from abroad, many families had their crops at home, taking advantage of their economy and better quality of products.

Music:

·Years ago, men started to make musical instruments, they made music by singing, clapping, or hitting objects. ·The first songs were made based on many repetitions or were made of a very limited melodic scope, very similar to the spoken language. Our ancestors made hieroglyphs as notes that indicated the sound through the movement of the hand with the index fingers.

Transport:

·Not long ago, horses or carriages were used as a means of transport ·A little later, the train arrived and although it still exists, it is no longer used to transport people but rather merchandise

Conclusion:

Some of us call it evolution, technological advancement, and others more suspicious believe that we are going backwards. The truth is that the human beings who inhabit the planet today live in a very different way from our parents or grandparents. Let’ s remember those moments when something highly technological was presented to us some time ago. Our parents always talk about the first time they saw a TV, even our grandparents are amazed when we present them with an electronic device, which for us are common objects because we are from this time, but probably the same will happen to us and our children they will teach us things that exceed the limits of our imagination. The world changes, sometimes evolving and sometimes regressing. The important thing is to adapt to each era and survive with dignity. Technology is something that increasingly encompasses our daily live; for example, before people went to the library, and they had to read encyclopedias or several books, to find the information, they needed, now, you go on the internet, type in the search engine what you need, and thousands of results appear.

One of the differences that are seen between adults and adolescents and that involves technology is our way playing with friends, before, we went out to the patio, to play hide and seek, among others, now it is played at home, already be it in a virtual reality game or online.

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