Just realized I’m just a bit older than the fictional age of the youngest character in Stranger Things, Erica (9 in 1984, so b 1975). The main characters would be a couple of years older. No wonder the show feels so spot on, despite me growing up on the other side of the planet.
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Besides the obvious cosmetic nostalgia, the show captures the sense of childhood as a small local bubble of friends kinda cut off from both the broader world and the adult world.
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A great deal of tween culture was about borrowing books, comics, video games, vhs tapes, and music from each other. And tv was neither good enough, nor abundant enough to be the core.
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Met some kids that age recently. Total aliens.
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Do you think the "good range" of family sizes in terms of number of children has changed substantially due to technology and social dynamics? Or are "good" sibling counts in previous decades still good themselves, just under pressure from other forces (income, house size)?
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