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Age Bashing (why it goes on and why it will continue)

What I'm about to talk about is really not something new but is still relevant. Older people don't get the younger generation and the  younger generation doesn't get the older generation. Age Bashing is pretty rough. I feel it is due really to common misconceptions with people and age groups. People have a tendency to STEREOTYPE age groups of people. The baby boomer generation is kinda on its way out. They hate the way the younger generation seems to not care about anything. Well the reader needs to understand that people are always going to relate something to something. Its just the way the human mind works. If i mention a noun (Person, place, or thing) You're going to relate it to something ....you already know of. That's how people LEARN things. Now lets examine this Age Bashing thing. I am 30 years old...meaning i have 3 decades of life on this planet. Now a decade is only 10 years. So if someone is born in 1994, just add 2 decades to that and get ...