By Zakia Carpenter | Unending Conversations of Hope blog
This article appeared in the April 20-26, 2008 issue of the
Michigan Citizen and is reproduced here with the author's permission. Please
post your comments here.
I have noticed a breakdown in youth-adult functionality that I'm
just beginning to articulate. From what I have read about the
Millennial Generation (youth, like me, born between 1977 and 1998),
experts predict it will be more separate from previous generations due
to the technological divide. However, this is just one factor dividing us. Every generation has
ideas and values differentiating it from prior generations. Our
histories shape us differently. Essentially we are our own entity,
separate from those who gave birth to us.
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I had a great conversation this past weekend with my son Clarke. We
were talking about the differences between ‘his generation’ and ‘my
generation’ (the Boomers), and he shared a perspective I thought was
extraordinary and which made me realize our two age groups advocate two
very different interpretations of reality.
He believes that one of the biggest problems his generation faces is
themselves—because they have grown up in a time in which they have been
constantly bombarded with the marketing machine’s message that
the world is custom-made to fulfill whatever you want.
He and his peers have grown up in an era of customized everything—from
their local Starbucks experience to designing their desktop and
personalizing their clothing to match current fads and their own
tastes. The message is always, “How do you want it to be?”. This
proliferation of choices and possibilities is wonderful and convenient
(and obviously good for businesses and marketers). But is it good to
believe that your personal whims and preferences should be the
organizing principle for your life?
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