Is There a Snowflaked Generation?

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i think a lot of that sense that we have a snowflaked generation is driven by a particular supset of a particular type university in the us. And my experience, particularly on the it being based in a university and seeing lots of young people come through, is not of a scared or cowed generation. It's just an incredibly small thing that would happen throughout history. We're always tempting to say, this is the uniquely weird and wrong generation coming through now. And more so than any time in history, s we're playing to that type of thing. And all that does is separate people. And that's what i worry about. Wa is winter.

Boomers are narcissists. Millennials are spoiled. Gen Zers are lazy. We assume people born around the same time have basically the same values. But, do they? Michael Shermer speaks with social researcher Bobby Duffy who has spent years studying generational distinctions. In The Generation Myth, he argues that our generational identities are not fixed but fluid, reforming throughout our lives. Based on an analysis of what over three million people really think about homeownership, sex, well-being, and more, Duffy offers a new model for understanding how generations form, how they shape societies, and why generational differences aren’t as sharp as we think.