Coming into the class, I never really thought about generations too much. Rather, I just considered it a way to classify a large group of people around the same age. However, after spending time thinking about the concept of generations, it became clearer that while it is a decent way of referring to an age range, classifying individuals by generation is often problematic. It’s not uncommon to attribute the negative of a certain individual to the whole group who fall into the same generational classification. For example, anytime an older generation says “kids these days.” They normally have a negative connotation and are very easy to over-generalize.
If I were to retake this class, I think it would be interesting to focus on the rapidly changing environment and social norms of the younger generations. Considering, arguably younger generation lives in a completely different world since they often spend significantly more time online. This very often creates a large social disconnect between younger and older generations. This very often creates a lack of productive conversation.*Did not get to finish*