Gen Z is currently quite the "in" term, right? Slightly dreaded, too, I suppose, what with whatever happened in Bangladesh, and the storm that is brewing, nay, spilling over in Nepal right now. Though everybody knows whose is the very long (and quite strong) arm stirring such pots (-n-shots), the rebellious face locally is the Gen Z!
Who exactly are the Gen Z's? Well, it has been agreed upon that they are all born in the 1997--2012 span. In a way, they have seen it all, a millenium changing when they were in their knickerbockers, the 2008 meltdown of the economy, especially in the West, which started the rise of the multi-polar world, the COVID years, too. Most of them must have graduated as the COVID batch!
Why do they have this rather funky n crazy moniker? Well, sheer fact of fate! They came after the Gen X, Gen Y, you see. So the Gen Z! Apparently, they are known as "digital natives". Once upon a time, people used to be born with a silver spoon. This unique b(r)and was born with a smartphone in hand, I suppose.
Excellent they are at managing the inter-netted wor(l)ds, just like they do the smartphone, the logo, brand, tagline, call what you will, of this generation. No wonder, Nepal apparently exploded because of the ban on the internet!!! Of course, we do know that the 'plot' lies somewhere else, though Gen Z gave it "a face and a name" as Shakespeare would put it.
Much more puzzling than the in-group kinda slang that they use is their attitude to work. Work has to be fun for them. So the informal Friday dress, hence the first name address of each one, the big boss being included! Work is for man, not the other way round, is their belief. They prefer a "cool" work ethic. They party hard as they believe that they work hard. They would make money, and retire by mid-thirties.
They are horribly climate conscious, and are in to all sorts of action groups to make it sustainable. Yet they are not exactly conscientious like the erstwhile middle class. Hence, even as revolutionaries, they "are in their limits", the realists!
Sure, they are the children of the laissez-faire consumerist, capitalist, and hence cruel world which has echoes in the Gen Z behaviour patterns, too. Their "could not care less" bravura suits the "I, me, my" space obsession. Hence they are not exactly committed or conscientious, like their parents' generation. Well, welcome to the Gen Z world!
Pratima@As they ushered in the emoji's, et al, let us end this piece with," d r G8, 🤣🤣🤣, u no!" Translated in to normal language, it means, "They are great, ha, ha, ha, you know!"
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