Might just be an age thing. In the United States those above the age of 50 tend to look down upon later generations. It doesn’t come across as classist, because

Might just be an age thing. In the United States those above the age of 50 tend to look down upon later generations. It doesn’t come across as classist, because we abandoned our formal class system a while ago, but ageist is probably the right word for it.