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ELITE ISSUE 29, MARCH 2021

- Emphasis on personal identity and self-expression through
different styles and interests
I believe that decades ago, styles and tastes were expressive of
the generation as a whole, they were more or less part of the
setting people lived in. Certainly, there might have been some
diversity and different choices in that regard yet not of the
importance they have now.Nowadays, we carefully choose our
looks, music tastes, and interests to reflect our personal
identities. Even concepts like “simplicity” and “minimalism”
have been developed into styles or more precisely “trends” that
we follow.

A Trend or a Generation's Mark!!
On the other hand, People from previous generations didn’t give So, what are your thoughts on this, is it just a trend that sooner
it much thought although each generation left iconic marks or later will be gone and replaced or is it a persistent
whether with its fashion, art, or lifestyle. Yet among each of characteristic of our generation that might even be what
them, diversity wasn’t much emphasized, people usually dressed defines us to future generations? Are we the generation that
the same, did similar activities and when something became old- combines 90s, 80s and even 60s trends -seeing little
fashioned, it was long forgone by all. In fact, I believe that the difference among them- to make up our own mark or will we
general trend in older generations was an attempt to head for the fail to ever leave one?
future rather than dive in the past. This is –in my opinion- what
sets us apart from them, they knew the past too well to be
willing to further live in it while we witnessed too much change
and different settings that we feel like the past exists in another
dimension.

- Integration with the previous generations
Be it the internet effect, increased or encouragement of social
networking, they might have lead to the integration of all
generations nowadays. And by previous generations I don’t
mean our families and relatives but even strangers. You can now
easily hear stories from people all over the world from different
backgrounds and origins yet you always hear: "Life was better
back then". The constant hearing about the beauty of each
generation’s life amid the difficulty to identify the beauty within
ours certainly fed our longing for the past, a past we didn’t even
live.

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