Being different

The really strange thing about our country's youth is that every single one of them wants to be different, doing exactly what everyone is doing (which is, trying to be different). Every college goer I meet dresses pretty much the same way, talks in pretty much the same accent, aspires to be pretty much the same rich person, likes pretty much the same music/films, dislikes, or atleast claims to dislike, pretty much the same things, is pretty much the same in terms of intelligence if you grade them on a scale of 1-10 and have pretty much the same opinions about issues. To cut a very long story very short, most of the young people are pretty much the same, in almost all aspects. What this means is, most of the people running our country in some years to come, will behave pretty much the same way. Does this mean we'll have little diversity left? The answer in my humble opinion is yes.

I think we're reducing our diversity every generation. Assimilation of thoughts borne out of our differences is reducing every generation. Why? I don't know why but it could be linked with our attitude to emulate the same people, follow the same school of thought, play the game by the rules others are following and walking at a pace so that we are not left behind nor are we too ahead. We're one large herd of similar people who think and respond to similar stimuli similarly. What this in turn means is we have very few things left to which we will respond differently. Things like faith, demographics, conversions, reservations. Ever wondered why politics is so defined in our country by these terms?

we're all copies of copies of copies..