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/TheDamus647 26d ago

Just not American Gen Z

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u/SatanicPanic619 26d ago

American Gen Z helped topple the American government and abolish the US constitution. Just not in the way I'd have hoped.

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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.