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I agree with you; especially your last statement. I believe that the arguing between generations spawns from the differences in the challenges each has faced. T
by scobar 12y ago
I agree with you; especially your last statement. I believe that the arguing between generations spawns from the differences in the challenges each has faced. Those challenges may be nearly equal in difficulty, but the difference is great enough that each generation has a difficult time empathizing with the others. We should restore hope in those (of any generation) who are struggling against terrible adversity rather than assure them that everyone else had it just as hard.
- Dewie 12y agoMaybe we argue cross generations because of cultures that have clear divides between generations - what they do, what they are interested in, etc. We are so adamant about it that we shame each other for being "age inappropriate" when we step out of those molds. In turn, maybe there is relatively little bonding and friendship between the generations. Everyone who is 20 years or older than you is either your parent, your teacher, your boss, your counselor, your mailman, or he's a noone to you. You meet some of them and, unless you see them every day for some reason (parent, relative, boss, coworker), they have nothing more to say to you than "are you still in school, what are you studying?", and the like, and you have nothing interesting to say to them, either. (I'm talking about myself here, not anyone else in particular.)