GenXers, Millennials, and Zoomers Have More in Common Than What Divides Us
How Generations X, Y, & Z can unite to support our common interests
“Kids these days!” goes the clichéd mantra. All of us have been the young whippersnappers dismissed by authority figures. Those of us who live long enough will eventually be in the position where we can end these toxic cycles…or keep them alive.
Personally, I’d prefer to do the former.
In an article from November of 2021, Medium’s Will Leitch writes about how generational tensions between young and old have always been cyclical.
When they were kids, Traditionalists (“the Silent Generation”) and Baby Boomers were undoubtedly scapegoated and demeaned by their GI-Gen (“the Greatest Generation”) and Hemingrebel (“the Lost Generation”) parents — who, in previous decades, had endured such scorn from their own parents.
And, as The Kasasa Exchange blog reminds us, any given generation’s priorities may change over time. None of us will be immune from this flux.
If you’re Gen X, Gen Y, or Gen Z — my plea to you, today, is to remember how we are stronger when working in tandem…rather than being at each other’s throats.
