The only thing that changes is the change itself. All aspects of the world – way of living, living enablers like Technology has been witnessing the light of change every second. The result is a gap on the levels of acceptance and readiness to accept the change is very much evident among the various generations of people.
For e.g.: To get a contact number when parents flip on the yellow pages, while their children quick dial to tele help.
It is increasingly tougher for the youth to get away from the digital screen more often whether it is academics or socializing all is done in front of it. But this is neither appreciated nor entertained by the older generation as they believe in face-to-face interaction and practical experience is more important for survival in the society.
This results in various conflicts of interests and ideologies between Gen-Now and Gen-Next.
Apart from technology there are several other reasons that lead to this kind of conflicting problems. The people in different generations are brought up in entirely different ways, due to this upbringing every generation’s mental framework differs from other. The physiological and behavioral patterns are formed on the basis of circumstances and surrounding one undergoes. So when the people of different generations meet each other they are induced to differ in opinion, communication gap and conflict.
Further this difference lead to likes and dislikes that differ from each other and people cannot live in peace with each other and they are unable to respect the likes and opinion of each other.
Generation gap is something that has been taking place in the society for a long time, but recently it has become more acute. It is caused due to conflict in ideas and thoughts taking place between the parents and the children. When there is difference of opinion among the parties then feelings cannot be expressed even though it exists between them as there would be no proper channel to fill in the gap. To be frank there are is no quick solution to bridge the gap, other than the two generations realizing the situation and becoming the bridge themselves. Self-Realization is the key.
Steps that can be taken to reduce the friction:
• Realization and a high level of understanding.
• Sharing of childhood memories opens the door to understanding.
• Understanding the theory of limitation as both the generations cannot be satisfied as per their wants.
• Spend qualitative time with each other as it creates an emotional bondage.
• Develop the attribute of respecting each other.
For e.g.: To get a contact number when parents flip on the yellow pages, while their children quick dial to tele help.
It is increasingly tougher for the youth to get away from the digital screen more often whether it is academics or socializing all is done in front of it. But this is neither appreciated nor entertained by the older generation as they believe in face-to-face interaction and practical experience is more important for survival in the society.
This results in various conflicts of interests and ideologies between Gen-Now and Gen-Next.
Apart from technology there are several other reasons that lead to this kind of conflicting problems. The people in different generations are brought up in entirely different ways, due to this upbringing every generation’s mental framework differs from other. The physiological and behavioral patterns are formed on the basis of circumstances and surrounding one undergoes. So when the people of different generations meet each other they are induced to differ in opinion, communication gap and conflict.
Further this difference lead to likes and dislikes that differ from each other and people cannot live in peace with each other and they are unable to respect the likes and opinion of each other.
Generation gap is something that has been taking place in the society for a long time, but recently it has become more acute. It is caused due to conflict in ideas and thoughts taking place between the parents and the children. When there is difference of opinion among the parties then feelings cannot be expressed even though it exists between them as there would be no proper channel to fill in the gap. To be frank there are is no quick solution to bridge the gap, other than the two generations realizing the situation and becoming the bridge themselves. Self-Realization is the key.
Steps that can be taken to reduce the friction:
• Realization and a high level of understanding.
• Sharing of childhood memories opens the door to understanding.
• Understanding the theory of limitation as both the generations cannot be satisfied as per their wants.
• Spend qualitative time with each other as it creates an emotional bondage.
• Develop the attribute of respecting each other.
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