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Ethnomagnetism: The Tendency Of Young People To Live In Emotionally Demonstrative, More Unrestrained Ethnic Neighborhood
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Ethnomagnetism:
The tendency of young people to live in emotionally
demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: "You wouldn't
understand it there, mother - they *hug* where I live now."
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Related:
Ozmosis: The inability of one's job to live up to one's self-image.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
Power Mist: The tendency of hierarchies in office environments to be diffuse and preclude crisp articulation.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
Japanese Minimalism: The most frequently offered interior design aesthetic used by rootless career-hopping young people.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
You might not count in the New Order. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X
Black Dens: Where Black Holes live; often unheated warehouses with Day'Glo spray painting
mutilated mannequins, Elvis references, dozens of overflowing ashtrays, broken mirror sculptures, and Velvet Underground music playing in the background....
Homeowner Envy: Feelings of jealousy generated in the young and the disenfranchised when facing gruesome housing statistics.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
Historical Underdosing: To live in a period of time when nothing seems to happen.
Major symptomes include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts....
Historical Overdosing: To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen.
Major symptomes include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts....
101-ism: The tendency to pick apart, often in minute detail, all aspects of life using half-understood pop psychology as a tool.
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...