The average age in Boston in the early 1770s was 14. More than half the population of Boston was under 21 in the events leading up to the American Revolution.
It really puts everything into a completely different context, doesn’t it?
#England: YOU DO YOUR CHORES LIKE I ASKED YOU #America: YOU’RE NOT MY REAL MOM #*slams door* #England: OOOHH YOU’RE GONNA GET IT #America: EAT MY SHORTS (beggars-opera)
oh, and they complain about millennials shutting down a few colleges and highways
get some perspective!
EAT MY SHORTS I’m crying
Honestly this explains like… All of medieval Europe too. Everybody acted like a jerk with no impulse control because they were all TEENAGERS, and in fact DID NOT HAVE impulse control because what frontal lobes?
Kimchi and Justice 