Why Is Gen Z Being Called the “Christopher Columbus Generation”?

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Why Is Gen Z Being Called the “Christopher Columbus Generation”?

Have you heard of Gen Z being called the “Christopher Columbus Generation”? It’s because they keep “discovering” things that already existed.

The newest one is “silent walking” . . . which is just walking without your phone.  And “quiet quitting” is a big thing nowadays.  But that’s just doing the minimum at work.  And people have been doing that for YEARS.

And they also just discovered “Coke floats” . . . which have been around since the 1800s. But to be fair, every generation repackages old ideas.  Millennials had “life hacks” and “adulting.”  And Gen X had “slacker culture.” The difference now is TikTok blasts these trends everywhere instantly. One expert summed it up nicely, saying Gen Z isn’t inventing things . . . they’re just “making them their own.”

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Courtesy of Newsweek