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In other words, Generation X may be neglected. But the pop culture we grew up on? You couldn’t ignore it if you tried.
It’s 2016. Why Are We Still Obsessed With the ’80s?”
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No, baby boomers, millennials aren’t poor because they eat smashed avocado
“I have seen young people order smashed avocado with crumbled feta on five-grain toasted bread at $22 a pop and more. I can afford to eat this for lunch because I am middle aged and have raised my family. But how can young people afford to eat like this? Shouldn’t they be economising by eating at home? How often are they eating out? Twenty-two dollars several times a week could go towards a deposit on a house,”
Middle-aged, own a house (ok, apt), would not pay $22 for avocado toast, don’t care if others do, but no one asked me…
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Kids These Days
Like the darts Zink tosses in conversation and in writing (a friend’s novel “has weaknesses you could drive a truck through”), her life story feels exhilaratingly reckless: a childhood in tidewater Virginia with unspecified traumas; college at William & Mary followed by stints as a bricklayer, secretary, musician, and zine publisher; two doomed marriages, one to a poet in Tel Aviv; 16 unwed years in Germany; a Ph.D. in media studies from Tübingen; and a correspondence with fellow bird-watcher Jonathan Franzen that led circuitously to her current and possibly strangest phase: middle-aged enfant terrible.
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The Food Industry (And All Of Retail) May Be Paying Too Much Attention To Millennials
The focus on Millennials seem to take up most of the marketing, advertising and retailing news these days. From this generation’s demanding increased transparency to more cooking at home, their desires are changing the food, nutrition and retail landscape. But what about our beloved Boomers? You know those 76 million Americans who changed the world forever and now are heading into retirement!
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At-Home Craft Coffee Brewing Embraced by Young Urban Consumers, Reports NPD
The new NPD report, based on an in-depth survey developed with NPD partner, CivicScience, found that Millennials are twice as likely as their Boomer parents to use craft brewers at home.
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Survey shows how generations differ in food thoughts
The survey found that boomers are looking carefully at the health benefits of food compared to other generations. Millennials are more likely to be interested in benefits such as mental health, muscle health and immunity associated with foods.
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happy #WomensEqualityDay ? pic.twitter.com/nIIaiYt5Ek
— Emma Gray (@emmaladyrose) August 26, 2016
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Being Into Middle-Aged People Is Probably a Sexual Orientation
If you haven’t heard the above term “mesophilia” before, that’s because Seto created it to to refer to people who are attracted to middle-aged individuals. “I think nobody has studied mesophilia yet because it’s not seen as a pressing need clinically,” Seto explained. In other words — and this is a point he makes in his paper as well — if a mesophile goes about searching for sexual gratification by casing the local Target for dads who are down, it doesn’t put anyone at risk of harm (homewrecking aside) or lead to lawbreaking in the way a pedophile searching for victims does. So because of the lack of research interest in mesophilia, Seto is inferring the existence of this orientation rather than pointing to an established literature on it.
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There’s a whole segment of people from the ages 24 to 35 who don’t even want to buy a house,” he continues. “They want to rent an apartment, and then they have more money to spend on taking trips and having experiences. They have a different lifestyle than the Boomers. We’re about setting our roots and having stuff. God knows we all collected lots of stuff.
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Friedman said the “millennials’ shopping habits are completely different from the baby boomers’ ” who traditionally shopped at a Nordstrom store. “Nordstrom is finally getting caught up in it.”