Generational Gaps: The Lost Generation

Generation or generational gap is the difference in opinions, beliefs and interests that exists between individuals from different generations. If you are born in the fifties or earlier your idea of how to get the news, keeping in touch with friends and reading literature is very difficult from someone born in the eighties and nineties. It is often quoted that it is the youths that droves change, and it is the youth that pushes technology. But today change has become so rapid, it is becoming increasingly more difficult for the older generation to embrace the constant change. Some factors to blame for generation gaps includes technology, the different attitudes adopted by different generations, the self-righteous attitude of the older people

Generation gap has always been between the current generation and the one before it. There are many types of generations, the lost generation born between 1883 and 1900. The greatest generation born between 1900 and 1924, the silent generation born approximately 1925 to 1942, the generation following world war 2 the baby boomers which was generally from 1946 to 1964. Generation X, commonly pruned to Generation X from the 1980’s to the early 2000’s. Generation Z, which started mid-2000’s and should be ending around the 2025’s. One of the factors that has greatly influenced generation gaps is the rapid change in society today. During the Lost Generation, improvements to society was very slow. The outcome of this caused about three generations to have the same style of living. The Lost Generation were a group of young persons who grew up ang lived during World War 1. Because of World War 1, this generation lacked purpose. They gave up hope after seeing countless deaths during the war. They gave up hope in traditional values such as nationalism, virility and courage. During the Greatest Generation, there was a tremendous change in society. It is said of the Greatest Generation that they created modern American from sheer force of will and decades of hard

The best comparison for Generation Z is the Silent Generation. Both generations grew up in the difficulties and aftermath of economic and political turmoil. The racial make-up of America, from the Greatest Generation to Generation Alpha has become increasingly diverse. According to Wikipedia, by 2042, so-called racial minority groups will make- up most of the US population. 77-83% Whites, 6-7% Hispanics, 7-12% Blacks, 3-4% Asians and 0-1% mixed as of 2015. 76-83% Whites, 6-9% Hispanics, 7-9% Blacks, 3-4% Asians, 1% Mixed Race. In 2011, most of the US Babies were non-white minorities. 54-58% were Whites, 20-23% Hispanics, 13-15% Blacks, 4-7% Asians and 2-3% Mixed Race. The interracial marriages in the past decades has led to a 50% increase in multiracial youth. The Greatest Generation had the most veterans. Returning World War 2 soldiers dealt with the aftermath of the war. No member of the Silent Generation has ever served as President. Drinking, marijuana and illicit drugs were used more by Baby Boomers that any other generations in their