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#290591 21-Nov-2021 22:44

Interesting new book about Gen Z by an author who presents a very different view of Gen Z than we're used to. In particular she trained Gen Z'ers to carry out the research to avoid looking at the issues through an older-person lens. Can't wait for the book to appear in the Auckland libraries.

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#2816857 22-Nov-2021 09:16

This is an interesting take:

What are the biggest misconceptions older people have about Gen Zers?
They might judge them as narcissistic individualists. Which of course is false because they actually love to collaborate, and they really care about other people.

But...I have to ask - how are they not narcissistic, when at the beach, all you see is teenaged girls standing in the water (clearly not there for the enjoyment), with pouted lips taking selfies for 'The Gram'?

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#2816867 22-Nov-2021 09:30

Handsomedan:

But...I have to ask - how are they not narcissistic, when at the beach, all you see is teenaged girls standing in the water (clearly not there for the enjoyment), with pouted lips taking selfies for 'The Gram'?

Because that is what "the gram" and social media in general has trained them to do...

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#2816929 22-Nov-2021 09:50

Handsomedan:

This is an interesting take:

What are the biggest misconceptions older people have about Gen Zers?
They might judge them as narcissistic individualists. Which of course is false because they actually love to collaborate, and they really care about other people.

But...I have to ask - how are they not narcissistic, when at the beach, all you see is teenaged girls standing in the water (clearly not there for the enjoyment), with pouted lips taking selfies for 'The Gram'?

Not sure if you're being sarcastic, but do you genuinely believe the youth of any/every generation has never before placed themselves in provocative positions in order to attempt to be noticed by the other sex?

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#2817216 22-Nov-2021 17:18

Handsomedan:
But...I have to ask - how are they not narcissistic, when at the beach, all you see is teenaged girls standing in the water (clearly not there for the enjoyment), with pouted lips taking selfies for 'The Gram'?

Availability heuristic: You're seeing and remembering the 0.1% who have both the looks, or possibly the filters, and the desire to do that. You're not seeing the 99.9% who are upset they don't have artificially-perfect faces/bodies or, more likely, who simply don't care about that sort of thing in the first place.

This is why I liked the fact that they got Gen-Z's to interview Gen-Z's, if we were to do it we'd just see the stereotypes we were expecting while their peers are (hopefully) less likely to do that.