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Culture Spotlight On Indonesia

... gaining notoriety nationally: the arthouse scene is rising with works exploring politics and gender (a new wave taking on the lack of LGBTQ portrayal in Indonesian media) in gritty styles, such as Siti (2014) and Solo Solitude (2016), as is horror, with the remake of Satan's Slaves (2017) achieving praise among critics. The country's cinematic success is due in part to the government taking significant steps to empower the movie industry. For instance, The ...

Welcome To The Club

... only 69% of UK Trendsetters. Additionally, among U.S. Trendsetters, 79% feel they are part of more than one community and 75% agree their community is a good reflection of who they are, compared to 71% and 59% of UK Trendsetters, respectively. Politics is no exception, as 71% of U.S. Trendsetters lead the charge in wanting to be involved in their local political scene and causes, compared to only 58% of UK Trendsetters.How strongly do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements ...

Know It Alls

... ; tech, politics, and sports for example don’t exist in their own individual vacuums. The 2018 Golden Globes proved that it wasn’t enough to be knowledgeable of the movies and TV shows being honored, viewers had to be appraised of the current social and political climate surrounding the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements to understand the jokes and the speeches, even though it was an award show for entertainment. Although it used to provide social currency and stature to be an expert in one field&mdash ...

Free For All

... energy, as well as provide an opportunity to enrich their mind and spirit, especially if they lack this in their job or their school work. This especially appeals to Ys, who prefer their free time to be productive; they’re able to create on their own terms in an environment that is free of the politics that can make corporate environments feel toxic. It matters little whether or not youth are good at the creative endeavor at hand; even if they’re terrible, such projects are good for their mental ...

All The Feels

... the availability of global news creates a more global outlook than previous generations, inspiring Zs not only to know about more people, politics, and issues around the world but also to care about them. Rather than growing up sheltered from the drama and trauma of the world, exposure to school shootings, immigration rallies, LGBTQ+ protests, and more are affecting them now. Among Trendsetters, half in the U.S. and 44% in the UK worry about immigration issues, 49% in the U.S. and 56% in the UK ...

Breaking Bad

... % of Xers and 16% of Boomers agree, as they see this as something young generations are doing today that was never done, nor possible, in the past. Not only is the format in which modern youth conduct friendships different from that of previous generations, but what they feel more comfortable discussing has changed too. Ys and Zs are more open about topics concerning politics and money/spending with their peers, but consequently they’re more likely than Xers and Boomers to call this out as a stigma ...

The Hive Mind

... resulted in the formation of differing echo chambers, or hives. And these hives, which garner public attention and rally opinions, have become unignorable and drive culture at large—from entertainment to politics to pop culture. This collective of decentralized hive minds (because there are MANY that proliferate on the internet) encompasses many ideologies, opinions, and grassroots Internet movements, and can be a volatile, unpredictable, and sometimes unreasonable force that characterizes the ...

Fear Factors

... worried about society’s trajectory. To wit, four in 10 Zs in both countries say that they worry about the government/politics, and the governmental instability Zs are living through is having a ripple effect, exacerbating their stress over related social and global issues.For youth in both the U.S. and UK, they’re seeing their forward march of social progress stalling amidst social and political controversy. Over half of Zs in the U.S. and 43% of Zs in the UK worry about racism, and among U.S. Zs ...

Gen Z Micro Trends

... politics, social justice, and the environment. Clover  Clover is a newsletter for teen girls that was developed in the hopes of creating a highly informed community that transcends social media. The newsletter curates thoughtful and hard-hitting articles from publications like the The New York Times and The Atlantic and aims to eliminate clickbait, which teen girls hate, as Cassandra and Clover discovered in a joint study. Newsela Newsela is helping improve literacy and exposure to news in K ...

Global Food & Beverage Trends

... and reduce the potential for illness and disease.FASHIONABLE FOODPopular culture is not just spreading across countries, but also across categories. Nearly four in 10 global youth (39%) believe different categories of popular culture are becoming more intertwined (e.g., politics and sports, food and art) and young people in China (52%), South Africa (48%), and Indonesia (47%) believe this more strongly. Fashion and food—from low end to high end and fast food to dessert—is experiencing ...