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Problems with the younger generation

pietro_21

I had a bit of a strange experience the other day it kind of reminded me of school. I'm riding my bike along a track, I slow to let two people pass.two young ish girls 18 one of whom started waving their arms about, pulling faces and making mental disability sounds at me. Although it didn't affect me much I still stop every time this happens to consider how people can be so ignorant. And how people make these judgements (to behave that way) on sight.

I've been thinking a lot about the internet lately and particularly those people who were born after it was created. I have encountered a lot of young adults around that generation, some I have spoken to seem plain rude and seem to think they know everything. I'm thinking those born in ai now will have even bigger problems and be even more complacent.

The correct terms are Digital Natives (those born after the internet was created) and AI Natives (those born after AI was born).

Maybe this sounds like I'm a bit out of touch.

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  • I do think you are right, and it is awful to see your politeness being met with such horrid behaviour. 

    I would say there are some people that are like that their whole lives though, and it can be the other way round. When I was 20, me and my youngest sibling had an older women sit on our bags and pull a knife on us on a bus because she decided she didn't like us. She spat on my little brothers hair and said he liked l looked like a boy, which he was, and only 12. I think some people enjoy being nasty to others.

  • in reply to Cinnabar_wing

    There is a part of me that thinks a lot of this is to do with values, those past on from parents to children. But it may harder for some people to prevent themselves from displaying intolerance(?).

  • in reply to pietro_21

    Yeah, I don't really understand it to be honest, it'll be complex to each, but you see it so often. I mean, why be nasty to another person? I hope those girls feel like idiots later on when they look back on their silly behaviour towards you.

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