Does the generation we belong to GEN-erate changes in the way we see the world?

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Does the generation we belong to GEN-erate changes in the way we see the world?

by Javi

How many times have we heard that Generation Z was born with a screen in our hand, that we don't care about serious issues like politics or climate change, and that we just want to party, get high and flirt? If you've ever suffered from popular misconceptions, regardless of what generation you belong to, congratulations, you're not alone!

If we think about it, changes in society from year to the next are almost imperceptible, and yet it’s curious how something so small conditions us to belong to one generation or another, and therefore to the culture and context that characterise it. Although gradual, however, it is true that as the years go by people's mentality changes. Think for a moment about your grandmother, how she thinks, how she lives…? Now compare that to your own case - it changes, doesn't it? 

Let me give you a clear example from my own experience. One day I went to my grandmother's, who is 98 years old. As we all know, at that age it is normal that our memory lapses, and when she saw me and we started to talk she noticed that I had an earring, rings, a ponytail... And I recall she said to me: "In my time men didn't dress like that, that's for girls."  I remember that I didn't get angry, and that we both laughed out loud, because it's not her fault that she saw it that way - although NOW we see this gender stereotyping as something narrow-minded and reprehensible, it was just the normal perception of these things as she and her generation were growing up. 

Ultimately, each generation perceives the world differently based on what was instilled in them, particularly in their upbringing - but it is entirely up to us to distinguish the veracity of things before falling into lazy and vague stereotypes that do not represent reality.