They say we cannot understand our elders and vice versa due to the "so-called" generation gap. Things they had in their childhood, we got extremely different than those.
When my parents were kids they used to play with wooden toys carved out of the bark of trees. They used to wear clothes, not ready made, but stitched by their mother out of plain clothes. They could just go to a government school because of unavailability and un-affordability of private high-class schools. They were totally unaware of the "lingo" that we use today. We are being called the "SMS" generation and I have seen my Mom not even understanding the SMSs I write to her due to "you" written as "u" and "I have" written as "I've". And what to talk about Television! Our knowledge store is enhanced a lot compared to our parents, although our gained knowledge can be categorised into both positive and negative aspects.
Talking about the compatibility between the two generations, I can bet that till adolescence its only our parents who try to come on terms with us learning our language of conversation, and we remain so much self-centered that we don't care and call it a Generation Gap.
From the side of elders the phrases like "When I was your age I used to do this and that" are really irritating statements which can tear apart your relations.
So there is a certain age when parents need to cooperate and afterwards their kids also need to care about understanding what their parents actually want and why.
Going a bit further if I talk about my cousins just 10 years younger than me I find a greater gap in between our thought process. I can say that the generation gap is becoming broader when the age gap is narrowing down. Now-a-days kids are exposed to internet as early as 6-7 years of age. And you can very well imagine the extent and variety of knowledge they get out of internet making them sharper and shrewder that they can beat you anytime in various tasks of life. Seventh and eighth standard children are seen having relationships (boyfriend - girlfriend as they say), thinking that they look cool if they would have one.
Even though these people are just 8-9 years younger than me but still the difference between our thinking looks like nothing less than a Generation Gap. The Gap has become too short to be ca;led a Generation Gap but it do exist. Its the same. We have a vacuum in between us and our parents and in the same way we feel a vacuum between us and the 12-13 years old school going children.
As you can see how it has narrowed down, from ~28 years to ~8 years now.
Even the new laws like "You cannot fail kids till 8th standard has given students license to avoid studies, avoid teachers and avoid their parents too, if they speak anything against these kids, And I cannot identify with this behaviour.
I don't even know whether the Gen Y is going to the advanced stage or its a depreciation in their personality and thought process due to they being over-exposed to a lot of things.
