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I think this ties back to the original question. Gen Z is way more exposed to social media and therefore world news including propaganda at levels millennials never saw until adulthood. In the 90s you needed to watch the news or read the newspaper to know what was happening and if you missed it you would only know about it if it was broadcasted again. Nowadays we’re bombarded 24/7 with all kinds of news in the same place where you watch funny dog videos.
Yup. Its nothing about "better" or "worse". Its about the technological differences of today's children vs myself as a child.
Here's a memory for yall who are too young to remember how dumb we were in the 90s. On 9/11, bullies were blaming China (and me, being a slanty-eye Asian) for bringing down the Twin Towers. I think people don't grasp how unfathomably ignorant pre-Internet and pre-9/11 people were. Such a mistake wouldn't happen today.
Nothing against those bullies. Everyone was that dumb back then.
9/11 was a big wakeup moment. Society collectively decided that paying attention to world events was important, and we got smarter. Technology improved as well, so it became easier to look up news events after that. But deep down within our collective psyche was a turning point in foreign-policy mindset. I'm seeing that Gen Z today is far more anxious and worried about world events (both good, and bad, associated with that). The 90s "peaceful" era of my youth was an illusion, it was created by my (and my peer's) collective ignorance about the world.
I look at my ignorant Youth vs what GenZ grows up with today, I see pros/cons with both. I think knowing more about the world is a better thing overall though.
Where did you live that has people who blamed East Asian people for 9/11?
The ignorant people here were blaming Indians and other South Asians, and that was the limit of ridiculousness where I grew up