Stop Stereotyping People Into Generational Drawers
Generation Z, Millenials, Boomer — I refuse to think in these categories.
To be honest, I don’t even know the definition of these buzzwords. I have no idea in which year you have to be born to belong to one of these generations.
Why does it seem so important today? Do young people really care about how to categorise people who are ten, twenty or thirty years older than themselves?
I don’t believe for a second that that is the case.
Whenever there is talk of a certain generation and certain characteristics are attributed to this generation, one can assume that it is an artificial debate.
It is sociologists, advertisers and journalists who need such divisions. The respective generation does not need them.
The viral stories sloshing through the social media channels about Generation Z attacking the boomers, or vice versa, are nothing but hot air.
The statements of single individuals or small groups are taken up and inflated by the media to generate clicks and comments.
I have never had to justify myself to young people for being of a certain age. No one has ever accused me of my generation destroying the earth, although young people would certainly have every right to think that way. But the majority of them does not, because they are as capable of differentiated judgement as any other generation before them.
Whoever wants to give the impression that the generations are at war with each other, wants to divide society.
In contrast to what the media would have us believe, I have the impression that the young and old generations have never been so peaceful and tolerant with each other as they are today. Conflicts between generations used to be fought much more bitterly, for example in the sixties and seventies. But at that time there were no fancy names for the generations. At that time it was just called The Young and the Old.
We all know how harmful and unfair it is to divide people into groups on the basis of random characteristics and to take them into kin custody for this.
So we should stop talking about Generation Z, Millenials and Boomers and instead focus on hearing the reasonable voices from all ages and making them heard.
The artificially fueled generation debate is a sham battle to divide society and prevent it from challenging the status quo. No generation can exist without the other. All are inextricably linked.
Let us not be convinced of the opposite by the thoughtless use of hip buzzwords.
René Junge a published author writing on ILLUMINATION.
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