Generation Gap
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Firstly, we have to understand what exactly ‘Generation Gap’ is.
Generation Gap is defined as “a difference of attitudes between people of different generations, leading to a lack ofunderstanding”. What it means is the difference between the age and birth of two different sets of people and the differences between personality, ability and thought process. A person born in 1980 is different than a person born in 2000. This is because they saw and got influenced by different things. Like the person born in 1980 must have listened to rap and urban music growing up, while the person born in 2000 must have listened to pop and heavy metal growing up. This creates a difference in taste of music between the 1980 born person and the 2000 born person.
Generation Gap is this but on a larger scale; difference between the generation for people born in 1980 and 2000 have different tastes in food, in lifestyle, in technology etc. Different experiences lead to different mindsets and attitudes. This is why two different generations of people are almost never the same.
You may think that Generation Gap is bad because of the differences it creates between people but it is not like that. You see Generation Gap can only happen if there is difference between the lifestyle of the two generations. If there is a difference in lifestyle between the two generations being compared then it can be said that there is growth in society, technology and education. That is why Generation Gap is not entirely a bad thing.
Madhav Desai
Class: VIII
Green Valley High School, Vadodara, Gujarat
