Thursday, August 02, 2018

Generation Z: America’s Most Intolerant Generation | Intellectual Takeout

Generation Z: America’s Most Intolerant Generation | Intellectual Takeout
"The post-millennials have arrived.
As the oldest millennials turn 37, demographers have designated a new generation for those born after 1996, Generation Z. 
The oldest members of this cohort just graduated from college and had their first (legal) alcoholic beverages.
How Generation Z Became America’s Most Intolerant GenerationAs they wind their way through college, post-millennials will change higher education, just as previous generations did.
Generation Z is racially diverse, increasingly secular, and very much online.
Non-Hispanic whites make up just over half of this cohort, compared with 72 percent of Baby Boomers.
...The members of this generation have different problems: they’re less prone to criminality and substance abuse but more susceptible to depression and suicide. 
And one thing that has especially emerged as a defining characteristic—of at least some large portion of them—is their tendency to be intolerant and to wish authority to make others behave as they wish..."
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