DOES THE GENERATIONAL DIVIDE FEEL DEEPER?

Rasyamond: “There’s always going to be divides between each generation, and it’s definitely more noticeable or prevalent now, because of social media, especially when we have a platform that connects a whole generation.”

Brown: “Millennials have been through a lot — as well as Gen Z — right now, and they’re not even 40, which is crazy. Because really no other generation before that has dealt with some of the world-changing and world-shaping events.” Argueta: “The systems that be, they can be reformed, instead of reconstructed. … That’s like the millennial ideology, the millennial political ideology. And it’s liberal, which is fine. But it doesn’t — it forms a girl boss, rainbow capitalism culture. And then we get into Gen Z, and we see this happening, and it just doesn’t make sense to us.”

García: “The reason that this ‘culture war’ is being hyped is because Gen Z is not afraid to tell it like it is. And I think, in that, we’re also not afraid to talk about and share what we feel like older generations failed us on. Whether that’s things like environment, whether that is things like voting rights, whether that’s things like LGBTQ rights. I think that we are feeling the pressure, and we are feeling the failures, in real time.”

Vazquez: “Sometimes when you do form your opinions, you’re not taken seriously because of your age. Even though, like Greta Thunberg, she had these really great ideas about the environment, which is something really important, but at first she was just dismissed because, ‘She’s just a young girl. What’s she gonna know?’ So it definitely requires a lot of confidence to go out into society and be yourself.”