Comment on Anon tries to meet girls at college
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 day agoA boomer told me that he observes younger generations as being stand off-ish. I don’t disagree. I suppose having grown up with “stranger danger” message being drilled into us made us that way. I don’t want to start a generation fight and blame boomers, but who are the parents of millenials who taught us the message that made us hypervigilant? The stranger danger message has merit, but if older generations are complaining why we behave that way, you reap what you sow as the saying goes.
Another consideration is that if Anon is Gen Z, it is very likely that his peers grew up with constant attention to online and digital presence, which makes them socially awkward. It didn’t help either that much of Gen Z spent two years in the coop during the pandemic. It does not take a genius to figure out what those two phenomena does to an entire generation.
BenchpressMuyDebil@szmer.info 1 day ago
You may be interested in reading en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone
There’s a lot to blame - dual income households, suburbanization, religion declining in popularity (religious communities are communities)
Lightfire228@pawb.social 1 day ago
Decline in local communities sounds like a natural result of mass communication and globalization, imo
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Eh there are a lot of factors, including how your city is designed. Car centric cities usually have less sense of community than cities with good transit or walkability. This is because nobody chats with the person next to them in traffic but some people will chat on the street or on the train. But on the flip side, car centric small towns can have a lot of community, mostly because the place is so small everyone kinda knows everyone and most people rely on the same businesses.