It seems that younger generations everywhere will always react against the values of older generations.
The folk music of black America, the blues and gospel, evolved into Rock'n'Roll and provided the excitement the youth were looking for.
What was best of all, their parents hated it.
When I started to learn English at the age of ten, I wanted to pick up as much basic vocabulary as possible and created what might be called a simple bilingual "dictionary" for myself.
黒人の民族音楽、ブルースやゴスペルはロックンロールに形を変え、若者が求めてきた刺激を与えた。
何よりもまず、彼らの親はそれを嫌った。
10歳で英語を学び始めた頃、私はできるだけ基礎となる語彙を選び、自分にとっての簡単な2か国語の「辞書」と呼ばれるであろうものを造り上げた。