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Defiant teens: Generational stereotyping

For me generational generalisations have always been overstated, as are others between genders, levels of education, national and regional cultures and elsewhere.

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By  Mike Eldon

Chairman of Management Consultancy

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The way people are examining Gen Z mindsets these days, one would imagine that the term “rebellious teenager” was coined just the other day.

But no. It came about in the Post World War II 1950s, when a new category between childhood and adulthood had already been identified.

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