Good life: A file picture showing students riding bicycles at a campus in Zhengzhou, China. Spoiled by parents and grandparents for being the only child in their families, these youngsters are living it up compared with their cautious, conservative peers in the West. — Reuters
AS we move deeper into the 21st century, a new generation has emerged today to take over. It’s Generation Z, which includes persons born between 1995 and 2002 – also termed iGen by US psychologist Jean Marie Twenge, author of the bestselling: “iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy – and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood – and What That Means for the Rest of Us.”
iGen is so named after the ubiquitous smart i-phones this generation grew up with. The new batch of Gen Zers is touted to be easier to manage than the Gen Yers (or Millennials) before them, as well as the Gen Xers earlier on.
