Manners

In this day and age we find the youth of America becoming more and more rude. People rarely hear children saying, "Yes ma'am and no ma'am". In today's lingo it is more like, "yea or whatever". Where did manners go? They did no just vanish because I know I grew up with my parents teaching me to be polite and courteous, but what about all the other kids in America? What happened to this generation?
I believe the reason for the rudeness is that in the previous generation's people put more emphasis on being polite than they do now. Parents are too worried about making it in this capitalist nation to worry about teaching their kids manners. Most parents believe that is what school is for, but the sad thing is that the majority of kids do not pay attention to teachers when they are in school to learn any of that. So the kids just grow up without manners, and to worsen the problem no one corrects them on it.
That brings us to the next issue of why does the previous generation get away with it? I believe that they think we are degenerates incapable of being polite so they just do not bother correcting us on it. Because just like thrift and hard work has gone out the window so have manners. With the incorporation of a more liberal train of thought, (meaning there is room for interpretation on whether or not saying, "Yes ma'am and no ma'am" is polite or not) which the baby boomers were brought up in and further passed on to the current generation, it is not as important to people as it used to be. Although it should be just as important now as it was then.