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Artist: Nirvana Song: Heart-Shaped Box [Embed For Use By Upgraded+]  Prompt via "Invalid Item"  : Prompt 3 - What do generations misunderstand about each other? Talk about your generation, the generation before you, and the generation after you. How were their experiences the same and how were they different? How do those different experiences shape our viewpoints? I was born in 1991, so my generation is the dreaded Millennials/Generation Y.  That means I'm sandwiched between Generation X (1965-1979) and Gen Z (late 90s to 2010s). Baby Boomers narrowly escaped my ranting.  Juuuust kidding.I honestly don't think there's much of a difference between generations. Like, they're all raised under different conditions and thus have different experiences and perspectives, but they're all still humans. There are assholes in every generation and I'm not buying at all that younger generations are more whiny/entitled. I've worked in retail. Older generations bought into that whole "the customer is always right" thing way more than the younger generations did. People of all ages have the capacity to be dicks. There are some notable differences between generations though. For example, the generation after mine grew up entirely with electronics in the home and don't remember a pre-9/11 world. I think they're more used to government security and a lack of privacy. Because they grew up without a lot of privacy, I think they're not as protective of it as previous generations. In fact, most of them use public social media to account for all their thoughts and actions, which is something that previous generations couldn't conceive of doing (although many people from the older generations have picked up on it now and choose to do the same). When I was a kid, common families were starting to get personal computers in the home and mobile phones. I think my family got their first PC when I was 8 or 9 years old. By the time I turned 18 in 2009, everyday people were starting to walk around with little computers in their pockets. Obviously with wearable technology and tablets, technology has only become more and more pervasive. There's a big difference between the generation before me where you'd need to find a payphone to call back to your family's house phone when you were out and the generation after me where you can press a button on your watch and speak to a robot voice that will type out what you've said and send the message to your mom's watch.  Generational differences are one of those things where everyone simultaneously claims that their generation had it worse but were somehow better. My generation is often accused of ruining things like tourism, the wedding industry, homeownership, and other things that we just straight up can't afford to participate in at the level of the generations before us. We've inherited an economic state where wage rates haven't even kept up with inflation. The cost of healthcare, student debt, and home prices have all increased at a higher rate than wage rates. Those things that other generations were able to do are just not feasible for my generation or Gen Z right below mine.The way each generation grows up is so unique and deeply part of their identity that I think people sometimes close their mind off to each other. Everyone thinks their way of doing things was the best or most pure way. The toys when you were a kid were the best toys. The music and movies were the best. The communication and connection with others was the best. The general day-to-day life was the best. It's nostalgia. We miss the times in our lives where we had less responsibility, less pessimism, and more time. Because we miss that, we can't imagine someone else feeling the same way about what we consider to be a completely different world. That's my take on generational differences, anyway. I think there are good and bad aspects to every decade. With rose-tinted glasses, we cherry pick the positives from our past and at the same time any of the negatives about the past were things our generation endured through excellent resilience and survival skills.  She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks |
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