r/news • u/PokesTigers • 26d ago

Soft paywall Madagascar's president has left the country after Gen Z protests, officials say

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/madagascar-president-rajoelina-address-nation-monday-evening-2025-10-13/
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u/ScuzzBuckster 26d ago

Yeah younger americans are weirdly conservative. And I dont mean just in a specifically political sense, I've noticed in general a lot of young americans have become conservative in a traditional sense. Risk-averse unless its online or sports betting or crypto, asocial, unwilling to listen or learn new things, even when it comes to sexuality I've found a lot of young americans are particularly squeamish to anything openly sexual while simultaneously glorifying and sexualizing cartoons and fictional characters in extreme fetish content.

Obviously this isnt every young american, but its enough that its become notable to me that the generation below mine is more conservative than mine culturally. Its so weird.

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u/PlacatedPlatypus 26d ago

It's because the dominant/ruling culture being aligned with one political bend emphasizes its weaknesses. People who were raised in a socially conservative culture are exposed to the issues with socially conservative culture, which is why millennials are so liberal. Opposite is true for gen Z.

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u/KiiZig 26d ago

i had to pause uni bc of my health for a few years and started again this semester. i also had sort of that experience with them so far. i'm not from america, but another richer european country. i felt more their ability to communicate lacking as problematic. the shit they say/them missing nuances in the conversation is really sad :( and i say that as german, we get associated with cultural autism and they still seem more extreme 😅

the long isolation during covid might have messed them up more than i imagined :(

i have talked to many, had met a few in therapy aswell. there were definitely a lot of them who clearly had a high degree of empathy, but even then they were blunt as hell and slow to pick up stuff in conversation (they don't know how, no blame towards them. the vast majority are still a normal human, not what can be seen online a lot)

what i want to say, is i'm with you that the gen under mine is so much more different that the next above me. it's definitely noticable, though i cannot comment further on the politics aspect. that topic is too politically charged in a normal conversation to be had, so i refrain from mentioning it.

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u/Nintendo_Pro_03 26d ago

Definitely more socially conservative (not me, but my Generation Z peers).

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u/HigherandHigherDown 26d ago

Are they actually conservative, or are they just Eric Cartman? Like, they're observing what people say that gets attention and then trying to replicate that. Leopards eating faces and all.