I may be a pan-cultural youth vampire, but I think I’ll leave gen Z to their slang | Barbara Ellen

I wondered for some time if there is anything – anything at all – young people can only have for themselves, without the elderly trying to wander around the party?

A Tesco mobile survey The colloquial words and phrases used by the generation Z and which are revealed Confusion of their parents And the elderly in general. This is the traditional point in which one is supposed to blow, confusing the colloquial youth, and it may be in Orange hour-Esque strange From everything.

There is certainly some I do not know: “Poggers”; “Drip” (elegant clothes/accessories); “Touch the grass” (time outside). However, I heard others about: “Finsta” (fake Instagram account to deceive parents); “NPC” (not a player; no one); “Poster” (effect); “Cariesma); “My naughty” (confident, rebel). In fact, there are not a few in the list I already know. a lot.

First, it should be recognized as the right of the unusual modern human father to restore their children by publishing their two years. After picking the phrase from Love IslandI had more months of fun. I told my younger daughter that she was not “depth” (Overhink something). Good news: It seems that I am the twenty -first^–The equivalent of the twentieth century The judge who has not heard about the Beatles. Bad news: I can be much worse. Young youth in cultures, my old country drowned, greedy, elegant x generation in the depth of young people-their words, clothes, music, television, movies-refusal to give up. What’s more, look around, and it is clear that I am not alone.

You will have heard of cultural seizure: kidnapping the culture of others by a dominant people or society without recognition or permission. Perhaps there is a form of generations that include the elderly who lead the signature of young people, to the extent that they do not leave anything that actual young people can define as only.

What music you listen to? Is this different from young people? Do you feel that you have the full -term homogeneity of Spotify? What programs do you see? What food do you eat? Do you buy your clothes from adult stores accurately, or does it end up on the Internet given the jackets, shoes and peaks targeting young people, which justifies that they will not look like this, so this is good and completely natural?

If the urban myths are supposed to believe, young people can barely go to vehicles or festivals without their parents trying to put a sign of that (well, they had to buy tickets). They cannot get tattoos in the small ankle because their fathers made them uncomfortable in middle age. And so it continues. For some time now, the older generations did not notice only for young people, as they always did – they took from them, suspended him, absorbed him dry and nourished them.

It is not as if there was anything new in itself from the elderly who invade youth culture. As it dates back to the 1990s, the ski plates owned in the 1990s, professional women, and women who oppose the riotous shirts, were observed in the wilderness. And after all, where is the damage – why do people have to keep quietly to their age arches, or to feel aging before their time?

Moreover, it is understood that people fascinated by young generations, as well as sometimes, feel anxious and sad. All of these reports about young people who wander in sex and alcohol (praise and intelligent, in many ways). The malicious effect of porn phones and mobile phones online (only last week, Denmark banned them Of the classrooms and post -school clubs). Periodic anxiety Mental health (Last year, one in three out of 18 to 24 arcs reported mental health problems such as anxiety or depression). He has The general is struggling with More than previous groups, or just refuse to be deaf and silent about it?

With Gen Z, it happened to me before their young people had stopped, or maybe the youth were postponed – as if they could be young later, at a less pressure and stress time. This is not surprising, given all other factors that make young people dark and difficult: climate change; The epidemic. The tuition fees that drown them in debt basins; war; Injustice … the list extends over.

However, the elderly who are concerned about young generations is one thing; Gatecrashing is completely other culture. In all discussions that ignite it periodically about Gen Z, amid continuous and guessing, are we guilty of forgetting that they have been forbidden throughout the thing that most elderly people can take as a Muslim command: the youth tape to contact them? As for “Where is the damage?” Do we sweep ourselves?

In the world of music alone, the older generations may have inadvertently helped raise costs and pricing youth. If the elderly do not participate in the concerts of pop festivals and music festivals (paying the price of their children, or actually attending them), there will be any justifications (or market) for them Cost cost Hundreds of pounds? Besides only students ’discounts, should there be selected official tickets so that the actual young people can withstand their costs?

Likewise, anxiety about mobile phones in the classroom is reasonable, but perhaps one of the few spaces in which young people achieve a set of privacy and the agency for generations. What is colloquial if it is not an attempt to obtain a special and confidential language (such as Bulri It was when it was illegal and dangerous to be gay). Is this the reason that adolescents often update him – they only want to keep them for themselves, and stop curious fog like me?

At this late stage of what the osmosis might be called, there is no filling again in the bottle, but we can be at least familiar. Listen, Fam, no need to blind it. Only sometimes, retreat, and let young people have some cultural space for themselves.

Barbara Eileen Writer Written

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