who is the vice president?

I have a embarrassing story maybe proving how little some of us in the younger generation really know. My dad recently called me very upset saying I have a question I have to ask you. He said who is the vice president? Since I was caught off guard I ask what the heck are you talking about. He said he was watching something on TV and the camera crew was somewhere stopping young people on the streets asking them who the vice president was and then asking them who Angelina Jolie is dating. He was furious because hardly anybody knew that Joe Biden was the vice president but everyone knew that Brad Pitt was dating Angelina Jolie. I was amused myself by this so I went home and ask my roommates the same question. After a long time of ummmmm I know this wait wait finally they both were like I have no clue. Also I forgot to mention of course when my dad asked me I was stumped at first and only remember who it was because in my mind I pictured those Obama Biden signs that were in everyone's' yard. Why is this happening to our generation? So many people have completely wrong and negative thoughts of our generation because of situations like this. Is it selective memory, because honestly we have all heard Biden's name many many times or is it true that majority of us don't care about anything or anybody but ourselves (since we are known as more of a "me" generation). I think this could be a case similar to the "idea teen" seen through MTV that rarely exists but the media chooses to create that image of us young people. What I wonder most is why it doesn't bother us that people think of our generation so negatively?