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Our flawed memory
Sometimes older people mistakenly remember kids in the past as more accomplished.
And todays youth will likely consider the generation after them to be deficient.
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Complaining about the youth has been going on for millennia, where the older generation finds fault with the younger generation's behavior and shortcomings.
Even Aristotle said of Greece's youth: "They think they know everything, and are always quite sure about it."
Research observed while people may believe in a general decline, they also believe that children are particularly deficient in the traits where they happen to excel.
Authoritarian people are more likely to believe that today's youth lack respect for authority. Intelligent people are m...
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What separates Baby Boomers from Gen X and Y, and what distinguish Gen Y from X? And hey Gen Z, welcome to the party! What’s the cutoff? How old is each generation? Are they really that different?
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From the moment we are born, we are ready to learn. We pick up the language around us and learn the rules of our society, what behaviour is allowed, what’s considered good or bad. We’re absolutely built that way: to learn norms and to comply with them.
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Millennials were born between 1981 and 1996.
Similar to how baby boomers were named after an increase in birth rate after World War II, millennials were named because their upbringing took place at the turn of the millennium - a time known for digital adv...
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