'The Generation Myth' Calls for Ceasefire on the Generation Wars
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🗓️ 22 November 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:42.8 | From KQED. |
| 0:59.3 | From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Leslie McClurg. |
| 1:03.4 | We make a lot of assumptions about people born around the same time. |
| 1:05.6 | Like boomers don't care about climate change. |
| 1:07.3 | Millennials are all about me. |
| 1:12.7 | Gen Zers are digitalites who can't really make eye contact. These stereotypes make great headlines, but they're not necessarily true. In fact, they might get history all wrong. |
| 1:17.8 | We'll dig into what really shapes people born around the same time, and we will separate |
| 1:21.5 | generational cliches from reality. That's coming up next after this news. |
| 1:49.9 | Music reality. That's coming up next after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Leslie McClurg. As families come together this week for Thanksgiving, |
| 1:59.3 | it's timely to talk about the assumptions we have about different generations, like boomers have all the money or millennials or just fragile snowflakes. |
| 2:02.2 | Social researcher Bobby Duffy explores the science or the potentially fake science behind these stereotypes in his new book, The Generation Myth, Why When |
| 2:08.3 | You're Born Matters Less Than You Think. Duffy joins us now to debunk labels and to dig into |
| 2:13.9 | what really challenges different generations. Welcome Bobby Duffy. Great to be here. |
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