Generational observations

[Joseph41]

Naturally, there are a number of differences from generation to generation. This is to be expected due to varying environments, and it can manifest in attitudes, beliefs, actions, whatever else.

What I'm interested in this thread is a list of those attitudes, believes, actions, whatever else. What have you noticed? Maybe something a family member does, maybe something a stranger does. We can work together to see which ones are solid, and which ones can't really be generalised in the same way.

Inspiration for the thread: I am strongly of the opinion that older people are more prone to be tea-slurpers. Somebody prove me wrong (or right haha).

[Calebark]

I apologise because this isn't tooottallllyyy answering your question as it's more of a change within a generation over time. If it's not relevant, feel free to split the thread!

So, I noticed that when about a decade ago, everything bad was 'gay'. Oh, your pencil broke? That's totally gay! After a few years, people caught on and realised that attaching a negative connotation is shit, so the trend of calling everything gay died out. Nowadays I've noticed there's a recent trend of calling things gay, but in a more positive manner -- kinda like reclaiming the term. Similar to how faggot used to be really horrible, but now it's (generally) been reclaimed and is frequently used as a term of endearment in the community.

Now for something a bit more on-topic. I've noticed that blind patriotism is just... not really a thing amongst youth nowdays, including me. I love Australia and all, but for me this goes hand-in-hand with being very critical of Australia. This is opposed to older generations where 'YEAH STRAYA' attitudes seemed to be more prevalent and accepted. Has anyone else noticed this?

[username2000]

i like the "YEAH STRAYA" part
does this link ...grandparents exaggerated swiping of their phone screens
and how much has changed since 'back in their days' in regards to communications etc.

[EEEEEEP]

Naturally, there are a number of differences from generation to generation. This is to be expected due to varying environments, and it can manifest in attitudes, beliefs, actions, whatever else.

What I'm interested in this thread is a list of those attitudes, believes, actions, whatever else. What have you noticed? Maybe something a family member does, maybe something a stranger does. We can work together to see which ones are solid, and which ones can't really be generalised in the same way.

Inspiration for the thread: I am strongly of the opinion that older people are more prone to be tea-slurpers. Somebody prove me wrong (or right haha).

My parents saw hitting as a good thing. Some call this Asian parenting, but this was also akin to old style parenting. I also noticed the older generation of Aussies saying "Kids these days need more discipline/corporal punishment, it's the reason why crime is higher and there's a lack of respect in the classroom."

My uni friends, also had old school parents that gave them corporal punishment (and the parent's parent gave them that too!)

They hit everyone for things ranging from stealing a cookie, stealing coins, breaking something or talking back. 
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With the older generation, there's also this prevalent attitude that "Kids these days don't know the value of hard work, back in our days of olden day China and .(INSERT COUNTRY)....... You know where I'm going

Ahem.. you know... how the milennials get the short end of the stick and a lot of criticism , AHAH

[michaeljacksonftw]

iphones have pretty much replaced tape-recorders in this generation