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Oh, it is pronounced "Dem-Locke."

Monday, April 3, 2017

Snowflake (Generation)

Demolocke’s Agenda Article/Post Caveat (Read First Please: Click the Link)

Heard this term used for the first time over the last weekend of April 1 & 2. It was given in regard to how one views today’s modern college/university students but it seems upon some checking that it spans all young adults of our modern times, i.e., I quote wikipedia, “Generation Snowflake, or Snowflake Generation, is a term used to characterize people who became adults in the 2000s and 2010s as being more prone to taking offense and less resilient than previous generations, or as being too emotionally vulnerable to cope with views that challenge their own. The term is considered derogatory.”

It adds in, “The term ‘snowflake’ has been used to refer to parents raising their children in ways that give them an inflated sense of their own uniqueness.” This seems to fit pretty good to how things seem to be in regard to current social affairs. 

It is not unique to this phenomena today but was used over the last forty or so years to describe similar states of society where perceptions were such that it too was a derogatory way to describe certain attitudes and ramifications of said attitudes. The following quotes are about that history.

“This usage of ‘snowflake’ may originate from Chuck Palahniuk's 1996 novel Fight Club, and its 1999 film adaptation. Both the novel and the film include the line ‘You are not special. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.’ In January 2017, Palahniuk claimed credit for coining this usage of ‘snowflake’, adding ‘Every generation gets offended by different things but my friends who teach in high school tell me that their students are very easily offended.’”

You can read more HERE on the subject and how it is used to describe such socially immature lack of coping skills, etc., that have lead to the current state of affairs that is not exactly, “Positive.” 

Personal Theory: What makes generation snowflake so wrong is not the lack of emotional maturity but the total lack of proper training in social coping skills. All humans have to leave the nest at one time sooner or later in life so having the social coping skills become critical because if not then becoming a snowflake is unavoidable and chips away at our very social fabric. Just sayin!

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