Why Is Generation Snowflake Wrong
Generation Snowflake as defined by Collins Dictionary is the generation of people who became adults in the 2010s, viewed as being less resilient and more prone to taking offence. Since Generation Snowflake takes offense to literally everything this has ushered in the dreaded age of “Political Correctness”. For instance, “last year, students at the University of East Anglia banned a Mexican restaurant from giving out sombreros because of racist stereotyping” (Crowder). In my opinion this is going to far, to the best of my knowledge this restaurant was making fun of mexican culture or anything near that so how is that racist? If I celebrate my culture does that make me a racist for playing into “racist stereotypes”. To analyze the problems within
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Heaven forbid that children get their energy out and exercise in a fun manner. It gets worse. “a National Union of Students conference banned clapping as it might trigger trauma (‘please use jazz hands’, delegates were told)” (Tam). It isn’t only physical protection either. Parents want to shelter their kids from any kind of verbal conflict. I would like to provide an analogy for this. Turtles are born with soft shells and they develop through life experiences, however, if a mama turtle protects that baby turtle from everything the shell will stay soft. I believe this is what happened to Generation Snowflake and has resulted in their hypersensitivity. The second characteristic of Generation Snowflake is a sense of entitlement. This comes from the self-esteem culture that has developed over the year. Everyone is a special and unique snowflake, everyone gets a participation award, and there are never any “bad questions”. I hate to be a cold sense of reality, but there are bad questions, people shouldn’t get a award for just trying, and not everyone is special and unique. Howard Schwartz, professor emeritus of Oakland University, said that “political correctness and microaggressions, all stem from this idea that people operating under the notion of
Heaven forbid that children get their energy out and exercise in a fun manner. It gets worse. “a National Union of Students conference banned clapping as it might trigger trauma (‘please use jazz hands’, delegates were told)” (Tam). It isn’t only physical protection either. Parents want to shelter their kids from any kind of verbal conflict. I would like to provide an analogy for this. Turtles are born with soft shells and they develop through life experiences, however, if a mama turtle protects that baby turtle from everything the shell will stay soft. I believe this is what happened to Generation Snowflake and has resulted in their hypersensitivity. The second characteristic of Generation Snowflake is a sense of entitlement. This comes from the self-esteem culture that has developed over the year. Everyone is a special and unique snowflake, everyone gets a participation award, and there are never any “bad questions”. I hate to be a cold sense of reality, but there are bad questions, people shouldn’t get a award for just trying, and not everyone is special and unique. Howard Schwartz, professor emeritus of Oakland University, said that “political correctness and microaggressions, all stem from this idea that people operating under the notion of