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What matters to Generation Z? What does life hold for Generation Alpha? - Misc and chat

mrs.snooks

So.

We had a discussion last night in our house: my husband, myself and my 16 year old daughter.

It was on the back of one of the discussions on here about cultural norms.

It struck me that I didn't really know how life was viewed by folk: Generation Z from 1995 to 2009

You know I thought I knew. I thought it would be Climate Change, WW3. That sort of thing. But I wonder if that is infact just what is important to me. Being in my 50s, I am moulded by my youth experiences and how life has changed around me: feminism, 1980s poverty, Gen X culture. Thinking that we were going to change the world for the better. My parents grew up during the 60s. My grandparents through the War - and we didn't need a number to know which one we were talking about. 

I misquoted There is no such thing as society 

https://iea.org.uk/blog/there-is-no-such-thing-as-society

It was a long discussion. And I wanted to put it out there. What matters to Generation Z? What does life hold for Generation Alpha?

My daughter's answer, was totally unexpected. She said financial security (I paraphrase). I know that she is only n=1, but I wonder what you think the answer to this question is? 

xx Mrs Snooks

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  • I found this article provided good context for considering the environment of development of generation z and generation alpha:

    www.britannica.com/.../Generation-Alpha

  • in reply to DormouseAtRest_25

    Who's generation alpha?

    I can't get my head around all these generations being labled, I did look it up once and got fed up, I'm apparently at the tail end of being a boomer, we're supposed to be a well off generation, who got the best of the post war stuff. I didn't by the time I needed a council house there were none left and a long waiting list, unemployment was growing and it was hard to get a job, Thatcherism was rife and many people my age were rioting. I feel I got the worst of both the generations either side of me and that I fell down the cracks between the generations.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    I can't get my head around all these generations being labled

    Clearly you'd have liked to make Thatcher go boom, but let's not go there !  

  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    making her a martyr would have been worse

    If my reading of history is correct, the IRA did this because they viewed them as the Establishment, and would likely have done the same no matter who formed the Government at the time, because they had a cause.  

    I've never seen another British political leader inspire street parties, bonfires and renditions of 'ding dong the witch is dead' when they died though.  

  • in reply to overwhelmed & underwhelmed

    I did read a bit of ArchaeC link, I had heard most of it before, I thik me and my school friends were aware of the changes that were coming due to tech, but our teachers ignored it.

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    I remember when the IRA tried to blow up the cabinet and many memebers at thier conference in Brighton and although I hated Thatcher with a passion, I think making her a martyr would have been worse.

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  • in reply to overwhelmed & underwhelmed

    I did read a bit of ArchaeC link, I had heard most of it before, I thik me and my school friends were aware of the changes that were coming due to tech, but our teachers ignored it.

    ***************************

    I remember when the IRA tried to blow up the cabinet and many memebers at thier conference in Brighton and although I hated Thatcher with a passion, I think making her a martyr would have been worse.

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  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    making her a martyr would have been worse

    If my reading of history is correct, the IRA did this because they viewed them as the Establishment, and would likely have done the same no matter who formed the Government at the time, because they had a cause.  

    I've never seen another British political leader inspire street parties, bonfires and renditions of 'ding dong the witch is dead' when they died though.