http://www.metafilter.com/tags/PeterPanSyndrome Posts tagged with 'PeterPanSyndrome' at MetaFilter. Fri, 19 Aug 2005 06:42:44 -0800 Fri, 19 Aug 2005 06:42:44 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/44407/Generation%2DWhy Remember the <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/38868" title="cringeworthy term for the current generation coined by Time magazine">Twixters</a>? Now meet the <a href="http://www.capetimes.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=332&fArticleId=2815839" title="Identified: the Yeppy - modern beast that aims for highest peaks of self-fulfillment (Independent)">Yeppies</a>: Young, Experimenting Perfection Seekers^{<a href="http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1539650,00.html" title="The Yeppies shop around for ideal life (Observer)">1</a>,<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1072-1722893,00.html" title="What are... 'Yeppies'? (Times UK)">2</a>,<a href="http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:YeXnkhNq4dUJ:www.thefridayproject.co.uk/hi/tft/culture_and_society/001798.php+yeppies&hl=en" title="The Abominable Yeppie (The Friday Thing)">3</a>}. <i>"Another survey, another invented tag for a group of young people. This survey was for eBay, carried out by Kate Fox, a social anthropologist at the <a href="http://www.sirc.org" title="Social Issues Research Center">Social Issues Research Centre</a>. It argues that young people are now shopping around and experimenting to find, as she puts it, 'the perfect job, the ideal relationship and the most fulfilling lifestyle.'"</i> - as <a href="http://www.worldwidewords.org/backissues/wbi050806.txt" title="6 August 2005 newsletter">noted</a> by <a href="http://www.worldwidewords.org/" title="World Wide Words">World Wide Words</a>. [See also: this <a href="http://photos22.flickr.com/28234847_264a67fc5a_o.jpg" title="findingyourplace6wl.jpg by unknown artist illustrates the predicament succinctly">Venn diagram</a>.] Will researchers ever tire of all this name-calling, though? If they really want to RTFM about this particular generation, they should just watch <a href="http://www.foxhome.com/wonderfalls/main.html" title="Wonderfalls [flash] - see episode guide">Wonderfalls</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.44407 Fri, 19 Aug 2005 06:42:44 -0800 culture generationalterms peterpansyndrome sociology targetmarket twentysomethings wonderfalls yeppies youth Lush http://www.metafilter.com/38868/New%2Dgreeting%2Dcard%2Didea%2DLife%2DBegins%2Dat%2D30 <a href="http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/covers/1101050124/story.html">Why haven't you settled down yet?</a> (<a href="http://www.timecanada.com/story.adp?storyid=001">impermanent no-login link</a>) Time has discovered that people are no longer graduated, married, and parenting by 22. <q>Twixters</q> are using their 20s to jump between jobs, apartments and cities instead of becoming adults. The reasons? Colleges <q>seriously out of step with the real world,</q> the ubiquity of choice, declining wages and plenty more. Personally, I blame the Toys-R-Us ad song for conditioning a generation to not <q>wanna grow up.</q> tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.38868 Sat, 22 Jan 2005 08:09:34 -0800 culture life PeterPanSyndrome twixters revgeorge