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deonte9109

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AT my job, I overheard some of the more older employees more or less expressing their distaste in the attitude and mannerisms of young adults (16-25). Now in the context of this particular discussion, they were talking about how apparently young adults these days look much older than they really are (personally I believe in the exact opposite but thats a different post). My point is that these people had a high level of disgust and contempt with our generation more or less saying that alcohol, late night, video games and smoking was the numerous problems that plagued our generation and that we were nothing more than a mass of delinquents. This had me thinking, is there such a cultural gap between our generation and our parents that they just look down at us as nothing but screw ups. I understand that the older generations always tend to look down on the younger generations but do you feel that we are the most distant generation to ever come along.
 

BlindMessiah94

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Our generation is very different than the one that fathered us. We are being born into a society full of technology - computers, video, music, information - all at your fingertips. They were not born into this, they have been having to learn it. They look at the percentage of youth that are delinquents, and brand us all as being so, and blame it on the media of the moment - video games. I'm sure their parents said the same of Rock and Roll for them?

It's what every generation does. We don't understand the next. I do believe that this generation there is a much more distinct divide because of the information revolution and how it affects the way we live our lives day to day. Remember just 10-15 years ago there was Dialup modems.

Look how much has changed in our lifetime. I don't think changes happened as quickly as often 50-100 years ago, not to even begin mentioning the time period (wars, depression, etc).

I could go on...
 

Toasty Virus

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Personally, I think they're just looking at their years as a young adult through rose tinted glasses, from what my mums told me, they were just as bad XD
 

Chemical Alia

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I'm almost 30 and my age group did the same exact things, and my parents' did as well. But I never was fond of younger people, even when I was one. So I can understand where your coworkers are coming from. :)