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“How dare you!” speaks for a generation

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“How dare you!” speaks for a generation

10 November 2021
By Steven Staples
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It may come as a shock, but many youth are not very impressed by their elders’ track record and accomplishments. “How dare you!” Greta Thunberg says, challenging leaders at the United Nations. “Ok Boomer,” tweet countless millennials on the Internet, responding to their constant disparaging by the older generation.

The PeaceQuest Leadership and Education Initiative wants to foster a new generation of peace activists. We have imagined that this goal might require connecting youth with older, more experienced activists. But then again, maybe not…?

A recent poll will disappoint older people hoping that a new generation will want to take up their parent’s generation’s work.

For many young Canadian leaders, starting over is preferred to building on the foundations provided by previous generations. 

A new study from the non-profit Angus Reid Institute finds a plurality of leaders aged 18-29 (47%) and 30-40 (40%) believe that the future development of Canadian society requires beginning a new and restructuring differently.

This preference for structural change is reflected in a generational divide on existing, and potential, legacies. When asked about the legacy of the Baby Boomers, over half of those between the ages of 18 and 40 qualified it as negative – with a quarter of younger leaders saying it was very negative.

  • You can read more about the poll at https://angusreid.org/
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  1. Janet Hudgins 13 November 2021

    Young people are right. We must find a very different kind of politician to govern than we have for the last 40 years as they have betrayed their oath and their constituents and they are leaving a legacy of devastation for our children.

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