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Author Topic: loving old people looking down on teens.  (Read 9485 times)

Hi, Im this four year old friend named Nick4t who thinks everyone who disagrees with my opinion is wrong.
I can see why they probably don't like you

"my" elders, are very different then just any other old person.

I dont give up my seat for a pregnant chick, i wouldn't do it for an old person.

loving teens.

Thinking they're all hip and stuff listening to JB and playing KH.
Smoking to be rebel, as if that makes them 'cool' somehow.
Bunch of immature ingrates if you ask an adult like me.






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Let's mosey on down to the community club and play some bingo.

/mygrandma

Let's mosey on down to the community club and play some bingo.

/mygrandma
You have to take into account that elderly people get a lot of enjoyment out of the small things in life.

I wish I had that ability. :(

You have to take into account that elderly people get a lot of enjoyment out of the small things in life.

I wish I had that ability. :(

not to mention all the money they can haul out of a bingo game..

not to mention all the money they can haul out of a bingo game..
Elderly people grew up in a time when the American dollar was actually worth something.


I agree with Thorax on all counts.

People of older generations look down on your (and I suppose my generation) because of the way we behave.  [From hereon, understand that when I say "we," I mean the majority of individuals aged 13-24, who all supposedly fall into generation Z].  Due to the fact that as children we had most comforts in life handed to us by our parents (thanklessly at that) and the fact that we belong to the "everyone is special/a winner" upbringing, we act as though everything should be provided for us.  We are extremely self-entitled and self-centric.  Our generation has not yet had to grasp with societal or historical shifts that events like WWII, Vietnam, or Cold War tension inflicted on our elders.  These events served to develop them characteristically and make them, for the most part, a more steadfast group.

Let's face it.  We are spoiled.  We are demanding.  And in your case, we expect respect to be given to us without having to earn it.  If someone disagrees with us, rather than seeing it as an opportunity to understand a different perspective, we consider it an attack and react with bratty behavior and rebellion.  You clearly showed this in your reaction to Thorax's comment where you called him "loving dense" and claimed he didn't make any sense.  Who are you to determine that?  You are 15.  You have not experienced very much yet.  You do not have a vast collection of experiences, traumas, successes, failures, and character building events to reference.  Yet you insist that you are more intelligent and more deserving of fair treatment than your elders. 

It is a very arrogant viewpoint.  Understand that there is always another perspective contrary to yours which is valid.  Also understand that it is not just you and your generation that are being looked down upon.  Human behavior is constant.  Every generation has gone through a period of self-important behavior and been knocked down a couple pegs to realize how much of a little stuff they were being.  Eventually you will grow to hold distaste for your subordinate generation and be thankful that you no longer behave in such a manner.

TL;DR - Old people look at you this way because you act like a spoiled brat.  Eventually you will grow out of it.

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sounds like a lot of excuses for them to be angry and arrogant about themselves. however, it dont give them any bit credit to do so.
experiences dont earn you squat. this isn't some fairy tale world we live in.

Try applying for a job with no experience.

sounds like a lot of excuses for them to be angry and arrogant about themselves. however, it dont give them any bit credit to do so.
experiences dont earn you squat. this isn't some fairy tale world we live in.

I don't necessarily disagree with you, but understand that just because one thinks he knows all there is to know does not mean that he even knows anything at all.  Yes, older adults shouldn't act as though they are the final authority on life and scoff at other age groups, but then again neither should teenagers.

I can see both sides of the argument.  I am frustrated by older adults at times because they hold the mentality that "just because I had it rough growing up means that you should too."  At the same time, teenagers tend to think along the lines of "forget how you grew up old guy.  My generation is better than yours and I already know as much as you do."

If nothing else, a person can do a lot of help themselves by simply acting humble.  Arrogance and self-entitlement are negative personality traits by any measure of social interaction.

loving old people.


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