Generation Z is on-track to become more liberal and progressive than Millennials - Polidicks

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2019/01/17/generation-z-looks-a-lot-like-millennials-on-key-social-and-political-issues/ http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/01/17/where-millennials-end-and-generation-z-begins/ https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/17/politics/gen-z-politics/index.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/01/17/next-generation-voters-are-more-liberal-more-inclusive-believe-government/?utm_term=.442109ee60c8 Gen Z Continues Millennial Progressive Streak, Poll Finds Generation Z, defined as those born after 1996, is on the cusp of adulthood. The oldest are graduating college. By 2020, almost half will be eligible to vote in the presidential election, which means their values and opinions could soon help shape national politics. According to the survey, released Thursday, Gen Z teens and young adults have overwhelmingly adopted left-leaning beliefs similar to those of the millennials before them. They overwhelmingly disapprove of President Trump, believe the government should do more and reject American exceptionalism. http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/01/PSDT_1.17.19_generations-04.png http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/01/PSDT_1.17.19_generations-05.png http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/01/PSDT_1.17.19_generations-09.png http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/01/PSDT_1.17.19_generations-01.png

oh god

I wonder what it's going to be like in ten years when Z is much older and more influential. What pandering and stereotyping they're going to see. I'm also curious how they're going to handle the sociocultural nightmare of the internet. Because fucking hell most people in the generations that came before weren't ready. As a millennial we have struggled to make it work and handle it, and boomers and gen x are just completely fucked up by it.

You know, looking at kids who grew up having way too much access to the internet... I'm not hopeful that they'll be any better at it

possibly higher cases of thinning of the cortex from use of tablets and other screens. V 60 minutes link V Screen time kids study expect more dementia if it's shown to be a causation.

1996 is millenial/zoomer hybrid, too old to be high school cohorts with deep zoomers and too young to be the same with millennials.

I hate graphs like this because even when they highlight improvements, it's still depressing to see where we were to begin with. 10% of Gen Zs believe the earth is not getting warmer. What the fuck is the USA? Also I find it hard to be optimistic. The world kind of just seems like this now, like it probably seems almost natural to people under 16. The internet... exists. Plus, from what I hear education is getting even more systemised and status quoey every day.

I would really encourage people to read "The Coddling of the American Mind" by Jonathan Haidt. Yes, they're more liberal and progressive. That's a good thing. There are negative elements to how these generations have been raised and it's a conversation that's really only had in extremes and sarcasm. The book is an honest look at the positives and negatives of how the "Xoom" generation has been raised.

I think Millennials have a huge advantage over Gen Z due to the fact that they were around to see more changes.

Didn't they say they where more conservative than the previous generation last time?

One can hope that as gen z grows older the disenchantment leads to another cultural revolution like we had in the 60s, but more extreme

Was born and raised just in time where schools taught us the ideals and values of this country which people fought for throughout history including civil rights, just to see most of them shot down in one fell swoop right after 9/11. I miss the 90s...

The 90s are trying to make a comeback. I'm starting to see a bunch of gen z people in grunge style and that kind of music making a resurgence.

It's true, people getting angry at violence in video games already returned, it's the 90s all over again.

I always find grouping people into generations really odd and extremely divisive. Its like a team sports nowadays. But we're all tribalistic by nature. There are varying figures on when someone is born is considered a millennial or Gen Z Can you imagine the Gen Z kids arguing that the next generation are spoiled and by in their days they had memes and fortnite

"All these damn kids do now is spend all their time walking around with AR headsets". Back in my day, you have to actually hold a device and type with your FINGERS.

Generational divides are a real thing though, I think it's important to make the distinction so we can see what the effect of previous generations was on the latest. Just look how childhood has changed in the last 30 years, not to mention massive events that they just plainly haven't experienced. Someone born in 1998 will most likely not remember the impact 9/11 had on the world as a whole.

Yeah. Consider that there will be people coming of voting age this year who were born after 9/11, they'll have no memories of society from before that, of how different things were. In fact many first time voters in 2020 will be post-9/11. Since many of us on here are millennials, that is hard to fathom, and we have no real idea what they expect from society or what kind of adults and leaders they will be. They've grown up in such a different world than we did and their expectations and world views are going to be a lot different. From an anthropological standpoint its going to be absolutely fascinating to see.

Fuck off, I want my 80s metal back before grunge takes a double barrel shotgun to it again.

Oh come on, you've had more than enough time with both an early start to it and a delayed end. We already spent all of the 2000s, a decent chunk of the 2010s, and even some of the '90s with too many people slobbering over the '80s. We couldn't even have our own decade to ourselves before GenX-ers started loudly pining for eternal reissues of Transformers G1 and setting up Skeletor shrines in their closets. If we're going by the normal "20-year retro cycle", we barely have any time left now to get off of '80s nostalgia and into '90s nostalgia before we get to the period of the '90s where '80s nostalgia started.

God I fucking hope it doesn't. Nothing good came out of the 90s unless you like "grunge" or rap, whereas at least in the other decades you had a decent mix of things other than the popular stuff (80s metal or 70s punk for instance). 90s were a good time for a lot of things, but they deserve to stay where they are. I much prefer the revival of rock and electronic music, as well as most other genres, that we've been with for the past two decades because of the internet.

Based on the metrics in that study ('96 being the cutoff for "millennial" and the starting point for "gen z"), I guess I'm a zoomer now even though I'm 21?

Who do you think you are, MovieBob?

That's mostly because once again the 90s sucked ass for people who have any sense of style or good music. While it would be nice to go back to the 90s for video games or like childrens shows, I'll pass on the 90s retro please.

I've always been under the impression that I was a millenial but today I have been christened Gen Z. I'm born in '97 which is always on the cusp of either.

Yeah its different people saying different things its all bull shit really just follow your own dreams

Well when you make broad generalizations about people as much as 15 years apart in age, things of course get blurry in the middle. I know people older than me who act like the zoomer stereotype and people younger than me that are more like millennials.

What are you talking about! The 90s were great! It was summer EVERY DAY!

Ok, I'm sorry, but I'm not buying and reading an entire book to understand the point you're trying to make in this post.

Okay. I didn't ask you to buy it but it does go over a lot more than you would read in a post that I made about it. Like many books that I suggest, they contain a shit ton of facts, figures, stats, and graphs that help make their points based off of data. The book itself is fully titled "The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation For Failure". It goes over many, many different aspects of how the world we live in has changed, the changes many of our parents and the parents of today have made to their parenting styles, the positives of this, and the negatives of this. He was on Joe Rogan's Podcast and talked in great detail about the book, I made a thread about it that died quietly. The point i'm trying to make is that while we can celebrate them being more liberal and progressive because that's not a bad thing, there are negatives to how the this generation was raised, what they're going to expect/demand from the world, and what it can actually give them.