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[reiki604]

I really don’t see the point of demeaning and degrading people according to their age on either end of the spectrum. It is just another mechanism for turning people into an “Other” in order to self validate and justify one’s own discriminatory attitudes.

[proudlyfromNJ]

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@reiki604 wrote:

I really don’t see the point of demeaning and degrading people according to their age on either end of the spectrum. It is just another mechanism for turning people into an “Other” in order to self validate and justify one’s own discriminatory attitudes.

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@reiki604   IMO, you hit the nail on the head!

[ann1989]

To understand the boomers you have to understand the generation that came before it. That generation was called the Silent Generation and demographers and researchers use mid-to-late 1920s as starting birth years and early-to-mid 1940s as ending birth years, with 1945 a widely accepted ending birth year. According to this definition, the oldest member of the Silent Generation is 91 years old and the youngest is, or is turning, 74 years old in 2019. 

Please read Silent Generation on Wikipedia and other websites and be ready to cry for your parents or grandparents after you understand what they went through.

[Porcelain]

"Oh fiddlesticks! Flappers these days! With their racoon coats and their Auto-Mobiles and their bobbed hair!"

And then the younger generation always continues on anyway. And nothing particularly awful happens.

[sfnative]

This is nothing more than opinion - and bologna.

To compare Millennials to Boomers in such a manner..

I have no words...

Oh, yes, I do:  garbage.

[hckynut]

From my life experiences this/these studies are a bunch of poop. How exactly to they find enough elders, life myself, that have close to perfect long term memory?  In my decades of meeting many(more men) from all walks of life and educational backgrounds, I have met very few that fall into the "snowflake" category.

Most of these men served in some branch of our United States Military, many as a career or to fulfill their draft duty. From Buck Private up to and including several Full Bird Colonels. "Snowflakes"? Hardly. Now we have safe offended by a comment enough to use it.

These studies are, in my opinion, are not worth the paper or hard drive space used to create them.

hckynut

[jubilant]

I agree. Some of these studies are ridiculous.  Each generation had and has it's own pro's and con's.  That's the way it's always been and that's the way it always will be. People are people.

[SilleeMee]

Comparing ourselves to others is and always will be a natural thing that we do. It drives certain aspects of our behavior. But when comparisons come or lead to negative things like envy, jealousy or blame then that's when comparing ourselves with others becomes problematic. I was taught to never compare myself with others and that I am who I am and not better or worse than anyone else.