Jewish caller: "[Our parents] had a gentle way of reminding us that "whatever we went through it wasn't as bad as what they had gone through."

And don't forget that we were the softer generation, in contrast to our WW2-generation parents, so it wasn't just annoying, it was threatening to our spoilt selves, threatening and superior and bragadocious and demanding of sympathy (which we didn't want to give) and fifty other horrible things.