Does it seem like the difference between the generations is huge? They used to call it a gap, but now?

Question

it seems more like a giant gorge. Are there any bridges?

Answer 1

You are absolutely right. The gap has widened to a chasm. Part of it might stem from the fact that the generations themselves have changed so much. Kids were kids until into their late teens. They were expected to remain at home and do as they were told. Today, kids learn to think independently as soon as they learn to walk, and they are no longer regarded as 'kids' once they reach puberty. They are refered to as 'young adults', not kids, and have freedom that earlier generations of teens never had. They also have far more disposable income.
Meanwhile, the parents, instead of settling down to being mom and pop are often involved in a two-career marriage, which involves a lot of baby sitting and day care, so the influence they have on their children is diluted, right from the start.
Then we move up to the grandparents. They've given up the rocking chair and traded it in on a jet ski, and trips to Vaile and Hawaii. So they aren't a benign presence constantly in the background, reinforcing the parents attitudes and outlooks.
Then we throw in television, and the current generation's tastes in music, which often seems designed solely to offend an older generation. Kids have their own way of dressing, their own way of talking, their own way of hanging out. And none of it matches what either their parents or their grandparents did at the same age.
So the gap continues to widen.
Are there any bridges? Yes. But they don't seem to open until the kids reach 40 or so, and are having problems with the next generation.
This isn't meant to be a downer. Some of the things that happen today are very exciting, and would have been welcomed by earlier generations. But life IS different!!~

Answer 2

The pace of living and learning is increasing all the time. Technology doesn't help either. The generations grow ever more apart because they are increasing estranged from one another for there is less and less common ground on which to interact.
If you think, the gap is large now, wait until the kindergartners that enter as you graduate are graduating from high school. You'll think you came from different universes!

Answer 3

The gap is gradually increasing. A major factor is the rate at which technology is becoming more sophisticated. Young people grow up in a world that depends on their knowledge of technology. Older people have been brought up in a simpler, less technologically oriented society, and they are reluctant to learn new ways of doing things.

Answer 4

The more we separate within family activities the more separate our lives and interest are. Does your family eat dinner together-at a table? Is ther only one TV that you all watch together-or does everyone have their own separate? Does everyone share a computer in a public area of the house or is everyone in their rooms? Do you spend weekends and holidays together? Get reconnected with your loved ones and you will understand each other on a deeper level.

Answer 5

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers."
- Socrates 415 B.C.

The gap has been the same for 2400 years. Only the perception has grown, usually in direct correlation with one's age.

Answer 6

Age is the new apartheid. But - do you mind if I go all heavy and political on you - in the media led trashing of the young by the old and of the old by the young there is a sinister undercurrent. The easiest community to govern is one that has abandoned the idea of community.
So the more fragmented society becomes the more controllable we are.

Now in my day..... :-)

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Answer 7

the generation gap has never changed!!

its the people within these gaps that maybe are so stuck in there own history past that makes what you call you "gap" so big

EXAMPLE....... my aunty knows music from now and gets involed in issues of today , is passionate about not wearing comfortable slacks!

She is young at heart so no gap.

can all of us say the same

Answer 8

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Answer 9

I don't think it is any larger than it was than I was a kid in the 50's Kids learn technology faster than there parents. Parents want the things they know and the kids want the new. The more the chang the harder it is.

Answer 10

I used to agree with you but just recently I have met some amazing older people who thoroughlly embrace communication and fun with us youngsters so it is all down to perception