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Originally Posted by tcxr750
I think what has changed in the past several decades has been the cultural change from all about US to all about ME. This has been aided by the advancement in technology which allows people the ability to spend hours focusing on the their own narcissistic interests without distraction from the world and people around them. Smart Phone?!!
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WE......POSTERS are the only thing that has changed. We got older.
I add this link from BBC in Oct discussing this issue where we generalize so much, ESPECIALLY in the USA.
BBC - Capital - What everyone gets wrong about 'millennial snowflakes'
Did you realize that children living with their parents peaked in the 1940's, and is
NOT a phenom of the current age ?
The author ends this with this.....
"So basically, millennials are the same as other generations were at their age. Only a little different. More global, maybe. More diverse. More progressive. Definitely poorer. But a unique group of monsters, the entitled wrath of which the world has ever seen before? I’m not so sure."
This is not a serious study but simple an observation that I agree with. To make ourselves feel good, we tend to make any other generation the bad guys, the worst ever.
Changes happen and we are quick to judge, but somehow we always are the best ever and the young folks are the worst. THAT does not seem to change ever.
Personally, I think it would be great if we stopped judging based on the dumbest things and started listening to each other, helping each other, and learning from each other