It seems as if
one generation wants to constantly do
battle with the next. There is
a constant struggle to prove one mindset over the other, the older
seeing themselves as more superior to the younger. Each is dogged with
the conundrum of why the other acts the way they act or do the way they do,
seemingly absurd to each other.
This goes beyond the classes of
understanding that exist between the sexes, the social classes, and the
ethnic/cultures. This generational divide is a boundary between
world-views of one of the largest groups of human
beings, discriminated on a temporal basis. It’s not
like sexism and racism whereby we move in progress to understand one
another and quell discrimination over time. You literally have only a
defined period of time to understand two unique groups of people before
the elder one dies out and is replaced by the previous subordinate
one, the cycle continuing.
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This lack of understanding
seems so prevalent that people describe it as just a way of
life. "You’ll grow out of most of it and become like the
predecessors." This isn't exactly the case, as each
generation retains the core qualities that characterize
it, regardless of where they are in their lives. The Baby
Boomers have their thing, the Xers, Yers and Zers all have unique characteristics to
them. And when two generations confront
one another, there is always a clash of not
being able to understand where one comes from.
Do you feel
a great divide with people of the other generation?
