Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 11/18/2024
I think this election showed the fallacy of homogeneity (the quality or state of being all the same or all of the same kind). I’m weary of the labeling of “boomers,” “the greatest generation,” “millennials,” “GENX,” and whatever.
I know a lot of people in their 20s who share values and viewpoints with me (and I know many who don’t, of course). I know a great many of my fellow boomers with whom I disagree mightily (from politics to retirement, from food to optimism). When we “label” people by age, gender, education, geography, race, religion, ethnicity, ableness, sexual orientation, or whatever, we are not trying to understand them better, we are dismissing them as though they are the polyps in some coral formation.
What’s even worse is using the results of invalid behavioral “tests” that sort people into “expressives,” or “high D,” or “green,” or “INTJ,” or “prolapsed introverts” (all right, I made the last one up, but not all of you knew that). Fifty years ago you could say, “What do you expect from a woman?” without getting arrested, but you can’t today, nor should you. So why is it we can say, “What do you expect from an ENTP?”
This polemic is toxic.
Moreover, the people we mindlessly place in those drawers and compartments feel the normative pressure to conform to their stereotypes. “Oh, I’m a “convoluted excessive,” or a member of the “coddled generation” so I should be acting like this….”
Despite your politics, it’s an objective reality that the Democrats relied on groupings (Latinos, Blacks, highly educated, women, unions, etc.) to vote a certain way homogenously. They did not.
The barrista in my coffee shop this morning is 40 years younger than I, less educated, female, and has tattoos. We chatted while she made the cappuccino about colleges and her brother’s major. We both learned a few things.
That’s the way of the world. Two kinds of people have made big mistakes trying to influence me: Those who “typed” me and those who underestimated me—which go hand-in-hand.
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Be who you are. Don’t be afraid to show your uniqueness. —Hidilyn Diaz
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