This “Gen Z is special” nonsense reminds me of the “Millennials are special” nonsense that I’d come across while growing up. Generational categories are arbitrary at best.
Every generation seems rebellious, naïve, “creative” etc when in fact it is just a product of youth.
Every generation seems rebellious, naïve, “creative” etc when in fact it is just a product of youth.
So useless is the discourse about the “generations”, that you could look up stories about previous “generations”, when they were younger, and those descriptors would equally apply to the youth of today.
Such discourse is always (predictably) talked about in the same breath as – and misattributed to the influences of – the information technologies, media, and culture of the times.
Looking at fashion (which is an obsession of the youth) and trying to infer the bottom layers, seems like backward reasoning to me.
If fashions change at a pace of 15-20 years, one can imagine a generational shift.
If fashions change at a pace of 15-20 years, one can imagine a generational shift.
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