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Gen X or Gen Z \u2013 it\u2019s time to start listening to each other, says Michael Hayman in his latest Country & Town House column<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Talking to Generation Z is like eaves-dropping on the future,\u2019 says generations expert, Dr Eliza Filby. The reason being that this group (b. 1995-2012) has grown up in an era of unparalleled technological change, their lives framed and forged by the three Cs of the 21st century: climate, Covid and conflict.<\/p>\n

\u2018We are all products of [our] time,\u2019\u00a0Eliza tells me, but as a self-declared \u2018geriatric millennial\u2019 herself (ie born in the ’80s), she clearly believes Gen Z are worth listening to. Not everyone is so open to dialogue. In the current wars of the ages, Baby boomers (b. 1940s-1960s) find themselves cast as the villains, since they are perceived as the \u2018privileged generation\u2019 who \u2018have had a very lucky run of it,\u2019 says Eliza.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This generational animosity runs both ways, of course. The frothy war on \u2018woke\u2019 is\u00a0a favourite source of millennial-bashing in the tabloids, where polarising front-line issues include Brexit, transgender rights, climate change and poverty.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing new in the so-called \u2018rupture in values\u2019 between generations, nor in youth\u2019s \u2018challenging of the status quo\u2019. It\u2019s what boomers did back in the Sixties, after all. But the internet has bitterly weaponised the generation gap.<\/p>\n

Fortunately it\u2019s not just a story of strife and loggerheads. Subtle shifts are taking place, which provide generational optimism. Eliza calls it the rise of \u2018the golden age of the family\u2019, no less.<\/p>\n

It turns out economic hardship and enforced lockdown \u2013 with remote working and homeschooling \u2013 are teaching layered families to function together at close quarters. Understanding each other\u2019s points of view strengthens the inter-generational dynamic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Indeed, for all the stories of warring couples sprinting to a solicitor as soon as lockdown lifted, Eliza cites historically low levels of divorce and teenage pregnancies. While the pandemic didn\u2019t invent these changed living conditions, it has certainly accelerated them, bringing with it the prospect of seismic social change, from the way we live to the way we work.<\/p>\n

For such change to be positive, Eliza says, all generations need to get better at listening to each other. It\u2019s a thought for this festive season, because, whatever age you are, we could all do with taking time to think about the future.<\/p>\n

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Listen to Dr Eliza Filby on Change Makers here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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