Why the divide between Gen Z and Boomers is growing

A widening gap in wealth, mental health, and cultural norms is fueling a quiet but consequential clash between Gen Z and Boomers that is reshaping work, identity, and power in real time .

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These high school students and seniors are bridging gaps with high tea
Students at John Rennie High School in Montreal’s West Island got to know local seniors over a cup of tea and finger sandwiches. Organizers behind the event say it was created after the Covid-19 pandemic, when they noticed a generational divide in the community.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/9.7175263?cmp=rss
North Korean high schoolers are dining out multiple times a week — and splitting the bill evenly. Elders are baffled. "How can they call each other comrades after that?"
#NorthKorea #DPRK #Marketization #GenerationalDivide https://www.dailynk.com/english/north-korean-youth-ditch-tradition-as-going-dutch-becomes-the-norm-at-restaurants/
North Korea youth embrace “going Dutch”

North Korean students are increasingly splitting restaurant bills, a shift that older generations say upends traditional notions of collective generosity.

Daily NK English
In a Congo village, presidential campaign deepens generational divide http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TRWXDH #Congo #PresidentialCampaign #GenerationalDivide #Politics #Elections

Gen Z loves AI for homework, hates it in their headphones

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/03/gen-z-ai-music-study/

Kent Pitman live on generational divides in computing with screwlisp on the #lispyGopherClimate #NewYears #commonLisp

https://communitymedia.video/w/khYLxfJchsANRyB8tckwpn

Kent Pitman live on generational divides in computing with screwlisp on the #lispyGopherClimate #NewYears #commonLisp

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@QasimRashid

When you ignore the #GenerationalDivide you are ageist. Your statement is, as you can see from the ongoing thread, worryingly prejudiced. 

The reality is that I am a victim of old vs. young ageism and like white claims of racism, the racists love to try to play the #Ageist card against me. 

The culture has to accept that we don't owe the Baby #Boomers anything anymore. We are better off helping young poor and middle class citizens because they have something to give back to civilization. 

Was there a woke war on white millennial men?

In 'Compact,' Jacob Savage exhaustively documents discrimination in the name of equity.

Reason.com
Africa: Africa's Gen Z Unrest Shows 'Generational Divide' Between People and Politicians: [RFI] Africa's rising Gen Z movements are putting governments under pressure. Young people on the continent say they want a real place in shaping their countries' futures, yet many feel excluded by leaders far older than them. Their frustration is spilling into streets from Madagascar to Morocco, and new… http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TPf1sn #GenZ #YouthActivism #AfricaRising #PoliticalEngagement #GenerationalDivide