tasfia sohani
2 min readMay 11, 2023

WHY DO THE OLDER GENERATION FAIL TO CONNECT WITH GEN Z IN SOUTH ASIA?

Respecting elders and the older generation is an integral part of the brown culture. If you look into the growing trend in South Asia that has been enforced, ever since the end of our independence war and the division of the Indian subcontinent, All of the Rulers and dictators had strong charismatic leadership qualities and at certain phases in life extreme decision-making agendas. During wartime the crueler/Harsh and Bold radical decisions you would take lead to a more effective change, this looks like a firm political figure

1. Making bold decisions regarding mass population

-health lines

-political reformations

-left right-wing agendas

  • leading to mass radical change or to nothing
  • For most of these stakeholders the rash and immediate decision-making process during that particular time frame and context lead to an audience that ends up having trust issues and an inconsistent pattern of sovereignty.

Why does the older generation fail to cater to the newer e generations' mindset in South Asia?

  • The comparison I’d like to draw is that people with stronger amounts of power are often forced to make decisions that often put them in a place of criticism.

Are those decisions rational enough?

I often ask some questions regarding those stakeholders

-is it effective and is it necessary? eg kicking people out of a refugee situation? Launching missiles, banning goods

*If it comes at the cost of strong integrity, what good does this often bring?

-How does this collectivism manifold upon social scenes?

And if it comes at the cost of losing individualist approaches? Is it even worth it?

What’s the point of picking a fight against each other when it doesn't bring the minimum change you once reciprocated?

The concept of breeding respect often leads to demigod existence and godly unapproachable and fantastical figures, as perfect as the concept sounds and looks this leads to unhealthy worshipping figures which literally don’t do anything but also narratives in our lives that are of no use I’d like to call them “bad culture”

Now the question leads to, Oh if there’s always picture-perfect existence of everyone and everyone chooses to thrive and do good is it possible?

Why isn’t it possible?

Why countries going to war is a fun thing?

Why do people have to study IR and also understand other human minds, fine they should understand other human minds but why that comes at the cost of blood-shedding, racism, manifesting hate, expose culture, and differences that breed disrespect?

During this point of life standing here in GenZ, this shouldn’t really be a concern in today's world, Social reformation happens when both sides are down for an active social change together, the older generation is not keen on listening to the problems of newer and young gen neither they will be paid respect by massive audiences, and if the young generation is not willing to understand the contextual difficulties previous generation had the generational gap is hard to supersede

tasfia sohani

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