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Gen Z: A Generation or Just a Phase?
<p><span style="background-color: transparent;">With the recurring flight delay announcements coming off from the speaker close to my desk, and passengers multiplying, I got into a friendly argument with one of the waiting passengers at the airport.. quite an elderly man. Started off at assisting him with his phone then few talks on how work was going when suddenly he dropped this statement: “Gen Z is just an age group everyone passes through.” </span></p><p><br/></p><p>That stopped me.</p><p>In my head, Gen Z was a generation, like Millennials.. They are people born in a specific window with shared culture, technology, and attitude. But from his point of view, “Gen Z” sounded more like “teenage years”.. a phase every individual grows out of.</p><p>His point being teenagers are impulsive and act without thinking of the consequences until later in life around their twenties that they realise they have responsibilities and goals to achieve..</p><p><br/></p><p>Telling him I was part of the Gen Z he claims are impulsive had him disagreeing with me.. said I didn't talk like one..</p><p><img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/Screenshot_20260702-184140_WhatsApp.jpg"/></p><p>Seriously?!!</p><p> Never knew there was a certain way we talk.. I personally think that yes, every one under the Gen Z category has a certain way of behaviour that's quite linked one way or another, but at the end of the day, we are our own individual person. We know what we want, just that getting to it could be the task or challenge.. whichever one.</p><p><br/></p><p>But as the conversation went on, I started seeing his reasons.. from his own point of view.. </p><p>From his thoughts I would say he believes the current teenagers are Gen Z because he said from 12 to 19.. Yes that age group is under the same category but that's not where it ends.. I checked later, turns out Gen Z spans more years than just 12 to 19.. some of us are already well past 19 truth be told.</p><p><img alt="" src="/media/inline_insight_image/Screenshot_20260702-184038_WhatsApp.jpg"/></p><p>The argument stayed friendly, but it got me thinking..</p><p>Is Gen Z really every individual around teenage age?</p><p>Or is it a distinct generation with its own markers, the way Millennial is?</p>
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