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• Cafe Minimalism: To espouse a philosophy of minimalism without actually putting into practice any of its tenets.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• The love of meat prevents any real change. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
• Nutritional Slumming: Food whose enjoyment stems not from flavor but from complex mixture of class connotations, nostalgia signals, and packaging semiotic
  Katie and I bought this tub of Multi-Whip instead of real whip cream because we thought petroleum distillate whip topping seemed like the sort of food that air force wives stationed in Pensacola back in the early sixties would feed their husbands to celebrate a career promotion....
• Ultra Short Term Nostalgia: Homesickness for the extremely recent pa
  Things seemed so much better in the world last week." -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Dorian Graying: The unwillingness to gracefully allow one's body to show signs of aging.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Ethnomagnetism: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhood
  You wouldn't understand it there, mother - they *hug* where I live now....
• QFM: Quelle Fashion Mistake. "It was really QFM, I mean painter pants?
  That's 1979 beyond belief!" -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Homeowner Envy: Feelings of jealousy generated in the young and the disenfranchised when facing gruesome housing statistics.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Native Aping: Pretending to be a native when visiting a foreign destination.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...