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Originally Posted by ArchAficionado
I must confess, I sometime stoop to the low of thinly veiled boomerphobia when my real intention is to unmask our various levels of governments' woeful inadequacy in preparing for demographic change / collapse. I look at the many issues rattling through our economy right now and that seems to be the common denominator.
In the longer run we would expect many of the younger immigrants who have recently arrived will have kids who need schooling ... but depending how well they assimilate we may be surprised. Very few of my peers now almost 30 are having kids or even thinking about kids on the near horizon, and few realize that means they'll likely miss the window to have kids at all. It's a real problem in my book.
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I must admit, I was looking for an opportunity to use this word that I recently invented (or didn’t invent in case someone else somewhere on the internet had already created it … I didn’t check).
I don’t think that anger and resentment towards older generations is anything new, in fact young boomers were famous for it. I do find it amusing how the internet loves to generalize the boomer poster child who is wealthy and stealing the future from all other generations and is thus the lightning rod for all problems that exist in society today, and thus the term I came up with (or stole if it already exists).
Honestly, I would just like to have conversations that aren’t loaded with angst towards any generalized target group, and am disappointed whenever the boomer card gets played. Call it a pet peeve, that wouldn’t be far off. Just like the “cycling zealot”, the suburbanite, any negative indication about any group takes away from the conversation, though I understand that we are all human and thus can’t avoid or may not even be aware that we are projecting our biases. Lord knows I’m not perfect. Anyhow…
You are probably correct about immigrant families adopting the “lack of fertility” of Canadian culture once they assimilate and are subjected to the same pressures and conditions of their Canadian cohorts. My thoughts were based upon data that I had heard in the news reports but I do not have context or nuances for that data. It was at the level of being anecdotal for me.
So you are suggesting that maybe additional schools are not necessary?
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