The article says that trends are contradicting the saying “If you are not a liberal at 25, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at 35 you have no brain.” The article predicts the death of conservatism in the UK as Gen Y and Gen Z will outnumber boomers n the next election.
I have mixed views on this. I don't think Gen Y and Gen Z are allies. Both quite dislike one another. There are a lot of Gen Y people who were Congress supporters in law school, but are now firmly BJP supporters. However, I feel Gen Z will remain loyal to the left, as this generation is very, very different.
As for the UK, let's also not forget that the immigrant population, especially from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Africa has increased sharply and these communities traditionally vote Labour. I think a separate analysis is needed to see if English/white Gen Y-ers are becoming more liberal.
Saw that, was quite interesting, thanks for sharing.
It would be interesting for the same research to be done in India and whether Gen Y or even Z has similar outlooks or definitions here as in the UK / US.
I would suspect that if you were to look at most gen Z in India purely in terms of numbers, a larger number is supporting the BJP or leaning conservative - particularly in the Northern states - than compared to the US and UK. End of the day, a large number of gen Z in India obviously do NOT go to NLUs or top universities, so there is danger in anecdotally extrapolating from perceptions of NLU gen Z'ers to the wider country.
I would say that at NLUs and Jindal most Gen Z-ers support AAP, a few Congress and then the BJP comes a distant third, possibly even enjoying less support than the Communist parties. Regional parties have negligible support( I suspect the posts shilling for the TMC on LI come from a solitary troll).
As for Gen Y, I would say that most support the BJP, even if they may have earlier supported Congress (Jaiveer Shergill being a classic example). Then comes Congress and then AAP.
There are things that both unite and divide Gen Y and Gen Z.
Things that divide:
- Gen Y dislikes the cancel culture and wokeness of Gen Z
- Gen Y dislikes Gen Z music
- Gen Y don't like that Gen Z shits on things/people that are dear to Gen Y and formed a part of their childhood, such as JK Rowling, Friends, Tom & Jerry cartoons etc.
Things that unite:
- Gen Y and Gen Z are fundamentally not racist
- Gen Y and Gen Z both want a work-life balance and find law firms exploitative
1. The article you cite carries two charts based on data from the UK and the USA. Therefore, neither is applicable to India prima facie.
2. Further, I would argue that the charts themselves demonstrate that one can't draw on them to infer anything about voting patterns in India given the immense variance they already show between the UK and the USA. For the former, millennials vote almost 20% less for conservatives than national average, while in the latter this number stands less than 10%.
3. Finally, the data in these charts compare millennials to the Silent generation, Boomers and GeN-X. It gives us on indication re:Gen-Z. I don't know where you extrapolated thoughts about them.
While it is great to draw attention to the article, none of the connections you drew from it to India or NLUs, is based on science. You were merely giving us your opinion. If so, why try to couch it to be anything more. I hope you take a thing or two about rigour that is needed when carrying out an analysis something which is sorely lacking in the NLUs (I am not even going to say these days).
I don't think the saying works. It should be "If you're a conservative at 25 you have no brain, if you're still a conservative at 35, you have a remarkable ability to not undergo personal growth"
The article says that trends are contradicting the saying “If you are not a liberal at 25, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative at 35 you have no brain.” The article predicts the death of conservatism in the UK as Gen Y and Gen Z will outnumber boomers n the next election.
I have mixed views on this. I don't think Gen Y and Gen Z are allies. Both quite dislike one another. There are a lot of Gen Y people who were Congress supporters in law school, but are now firmly BJP supporters. However, I feel Gen Z will remain loyal to the left, as this generation is very, very different.
As for the UK, let's also not forget that the immigrant population, especially from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Africa has increased sharply and these communities traditionally vote Labour. I think a separate analysis is needed to see if English/white Gen Y-ers are becoming more liberal.
It would be interesting for the same research to be done in India and whether Gen Y or even Z has similar outlooks or definitions here as in the UK / US.
I would suspect that if you were to look at most gen Z in India purely in terms of numbers, a larger number is supporting the BJP or leaning conservative - particularly in the Northern states - than compared to the US and UK. End of the day, a large number of gen Z in India obviously do NOT go to NLUs or top universities, so there is danger in anecdotally extrapolating from perceptions of NLU gen Z'ers to the wider country.
As for Gen Y, I would say that most support the BJP, even if they may have earlier supported Congress (Jaiveer Shergill being a classic example). Then comes Congress and then AAP.
Things that divide:
- Gen Y dislikes the cancel culture and wokeness of Gen Z
- Gen Y dislikes Gen Z music
- Gen Y don't like that Gen Z shits on things/people that are dear to Gen Y and formed a part of their childhood, such as JK Rowling, Friends, Tom & Jerry cartoons etc.
Things that unite:
- Gen Y and Gen Z are fundamentally not racist
- Gen Y and Gen Z both want a work-life balance and find law firms exploitative
- Gen Y and Gen Z support individual freedoms
2. Further, I would argue that the charts themselves demonstrate that one can't draw on them to infer anything about voting patterns in India given the immense variance they already show between the UK and the USA. For the former, millennials vote almost 20% less for conservatives than national average, while in the latter this number stands less than 10%.
3. Finally, the data in these charts compare millennials to the Silent generation, Boomers and GeN-X. It gives us on indication re:Gen-Z. I don't know where you extrapolated thoughts about them.
While it is great to draw attention to the article, none of the connections you drew from it to India or NLUs, is based on science. You were merely giving us your opinion. If so, why try to couch it to be anything more. I hope you take a thing or two about rigour that is needed when carrying out an analysis something which is sorely lacking in the NLUs (I am not even going to say these days).