Kersten Brown Source 2

How is Gen Z different from Millennials? How is Gen Z already impacting the world?

Elmore, Tim. “Seven Shifts As Generation Y Becomes Generation Z.“ Psychology Today. 21 Sept. 2015. Web.

           This was a short article. It’s been a bit hard finding articles because this topic is fairly new so there aren’t too many opinions on it. As I am reading these articles, though, I am realizing that everyone is kind of having the same general opinions on Gen Z. I am doing my best to find as much as I can on this topic but I am finding it a bit hard. But I will keep pushing. The title of this article basically explains what it is about; seven ways Generation Z is different from Generation Y (or the Millennials).

           The biggest point that got my attention is how Generation Z is becoming more realists than optimists like Gen Y. This seems to be a continuing thought in many of the articles that I read and I do agree with it. Gen Z has came into the world facing debt, discrimination, terrorism, and environmental issues. This generation has been trained to grow up fast and to think practically. I also agree with Elmore’s point on confidence morphing into caution because of these factors that gen z has grown up with. But I may disagree with the confidence part, as gen z is pretty self-confident in the ways that they live their life. I think the term careless would be more fitting; carelessness morphing into caution. I do disagree when Elmore says, “Attaining an education is morphing into hacking one.” Many of gen z does realize that they can self-educate themselves but they also realize that going to college is what is going to help them on their way to success. As seen, the percentage of people going to college has gone up significantly because many of us want that higher education. I do agree with his point that, “spending money is morphing into saving money”. As we have seen debt and the economy being absolute crap (sorry for the non-scholarly term) we have come to the realization that we do need to be saving money as much as possible.

           Elmore would agree with Williams (1^st source) on all, if not, many of Williams’ views, especially Williams’ comment on how Gen Z has many parallels to the Silent Generation and how Gen Z is going to be richer than the generations before them. I find myself in agreement with Williams more than I do with Elmore and that may be because Williams’ views are a bit more descriptive and backed up with evidence.

New Questions:

·      Why has Generation Z become more realist/cautious?

·      What events have happened during years gen z has been born and what environment did they grow up in?

·      How had their parents’ generation influenced them?

It’s time to start looking at history and previous generations to find how they have influenced this generation.

Answers:

·      Gen z is far more tech savvy than any other generation

·      Gen z aims big but knows how to determine reality from a dream

·      Gen z wants to fix everything that’s wrong with the world

Gen z is kind of lazy...