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• Conversational Slumming: The self-conscious enjoyment of a given conversation precisely for its lack of intellectual rigor.
  A major spin-off of Recreational Slumming. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Occupational Slumming: Taking a job well beneath one's skill or education level as a means of retreat from adult responsibilities and/or avoiding possible failure in one's true occupation.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Earth Tones: A youthful subgroup interested in vegetarianism, tie-dyed outfits, mild recreational drugs, and good stereo equipment.
  Earnest, frequently lacking in humor. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Rebellion Postponement: The tendency in one's youth to avoid traditionally youthful activities and artistic experiences in order to obtainserious career experience.
  Sometimes results in the mourning for lost youth at about age thirty, followed by silly haircuts and expensive joke-inducing wardrobes....
• Historical Slumming: The act of visiting locations such as dine
  mokestack industrial sites, rural villages - locations where time appears to have been frozen many years back - so as to experience relief when one returns "back to the present....
• Clique Maintenance: The need of one generation to see the generaton following it as deficient so as to bolster its own collective ego
  Kids today do nothing. They're so apathetic. We used to go out and protest....
• Emallgration: Migration toward lower-tech, lower-information environments containing a lessened emphasis on consumerism.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Ozmosis: The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Poor Buoyancy: The realization that one was a better person when one had less money.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...