a bitch about grown ups

here goes a bitch about grown ups (but not all grown ups, cos some grown ups are awesome;)).
so. i can't believe how close minded some grown ups can be. i told my family (which consists of my mother, father and grandmother. only. ..becausei have no siblings) at dinner this evening about how cambell live is coming to film at our school to interview about chinese sub-cultures and the free-trade agreement blah blah blah and while we're talking about this the news was on and they have all this latest news about china vs tibet and my mum, being the patriotic chinese she is, says that if i HAPPEN to be put in front of the camera tomorrow i have to point out strongly to the whole freakin nation that the chinese government is right in their actions in every single way, thus ruining my reputation towards EVERYONE in new zealand for something i don't even believe in or, frankly, know anything about. i also have to tell them that ALL chinese people living in New Zealand LOVE living in New Zealand and would do ANYTHING to join in with the Kiwi culture. you and i KNOW this isn't true at the slightest. my GRANDMA is a GREAT example of this. one day she was boasting to me about how much money she has and was asking me where i think she got it from. i KNOW she gets it from the government but she starts cussing about the government says they don't do shit for her. and she even thinks she's still living in china for most of the time. anyway, i didn't want to protest to my mum at first but i couldn't help it and she starts going on about "how could a teenager like you know anything about complicated issues between people? you're just going to embarrass yourself." and then my grandma starts saying "people like you at your level know nothing. we know more than your 'kind of people' beyond comparison" in such a demoralising way and i'm just bubbling with anger. HOW could a grown up victorise over a kid about knowledge and maturity just because they're older?! it's not like they've worked harder than us to earn it, they were just born earlier. maybe they survived all those years of growing up but we're going to as well. sure, they know more about life and have more life experiences but that's just because they were BORN earlier. and there's another thing i'd like to add, i think people born in later generations will understand the world in a wider perception because they grow up in a world that is more developed than when people from earlier generations had. a more developed world means a longer history of understanding and knowledge contributed by people in THAT history. we might not have as much life experience as our elders but that does NOT mean we only know a small part of what they already know. there are heaps of things that we understand more than our elders and that's NOTHING for them to boast about.