The reason we at Truth Uncensored Afrika are informing you about Gen Z from different sources is so you can get a good understanding of why their different demonstrations come from and why.  As we see what is happening in Kenya right now, you may not have understood that these protests are funded and planned ahead of time just waiting for the right time to make their voice heard. Gen Zs don’t like all the high taxes capitalists impose to keep the government running so they opt for a more socialist government. “The government should do something.” is a favorite saying of socialists. There needs to be a balance, but ousting a duly elected government can make things worse.

 When people are very upset about the way the government is going, then it is time for them to stage a protest or demonstration. Perfect timing to push their agenda without the populace knowing what the hidden agenda is. The protesters may not even know. The aim is to get rid of capitalism and bring in a socialism/ communism government. But are they digging their own grave? We know that capitalism is a dog eat dog world so the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. The gap between the rich and poor gets larger all the time but is socialism or communism the answer?

The goal of Gen Z protests in Kenya is to be able to make a living in this kind of world. It is almost impossible to find jobs in some of these poorer countries. But killing people, burning down business and closing the economy is making it even worse.

The trend seems to be socialist capitalism like China.  Now the other trend is stakeholder companies that run the country rather than being shareholders who invest in companies but have to say.

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Gen Z activists protest in San Francisco as part of the School Strike for Climate movement, 2019.Part of a series onSocial generations of the Western world

• Lost Generation
• Greatest Generation
• Silent Generation
• Baby boomers
• Generation X
• Millennials
• Generation Z
• Generation Alpha

Generation Z (or Gen Z for short), colloquially also referred to as ‘zoomers’, is the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha. Researchers and popular media use the mid-to-late 1990s as starting birth years, while they use the early 2010s as the ending birth years.

Generation Z is generally alike to Millennials on political and social issues. Generation Z has been reported to be “progressive and pro-government”, though this narrative is challenged, particularly in Europe. The generation is largely in favor of LGBT rights, gender equality, and access to abortion. Economically, Gen Z has a more favorable view of socialism than previous generations. Gen Z varies largely by country on whether to make it easier for legal migrants to live and work in their countries.

Movements associated with Gen Z so far include School Strike for Climate and March for Our Lives, though the generation’s influence on such movements is disputed. Contrary to older generations, who mainly receive news from television news, Generation Z receives their information predominantly from social media.

Family values and abortion

A 2018 Pew Research Center survey studied various family values among generations. Among Generation Z, 67% were indifferent towards premarital cohabitation. 49% considered single motherhood to be neither a positive or a negative for society. 62% saw increased ethnic or racial diversity as good for society and 53% for interracial marriage. In the case of financial responsibility in a two-parent household, majorities from across the generations (79% of Generation Z) answered that it should be shared by both parents. Across all the generations surveyed, at least 84% thought that both parents ought to be responsible for rearing children. About 13% of Generation Z thought that mothers should be the primary caretaker of children, while very few thought that fathers should be the ones mainly responsible.

In 2016, the Varkey Foundation and Populus conducted an international study examining the attitudes of 20,000 people aged 15 to 21 in twenty countries.The survey showed that 66% of people aged 15 to 21 favored legal abortion, but there was significant variation among the countries surveyed: support for this procedure was strongest in France, the United Kingdom, and Canada, but lowest in Argentina, Brazil, and Nigeria. Gallup polls conducted in 2020 in the U.S. revealed that 61% of people aged 18 to 29—older members of Generation Z and younger Millennials—considered themselves pro-choice, while only 34% identified as pro-life. In general, the older someone was, the less likely that they supported access to abortion.^[36] Nevertheless, anti-abortion sentiments among American youths in the early 2020s were sufficiently strong to motivate them to participate in the annual March for Life in Washington D.C.

Gender equality and LGBT rights

The 2016 Varkey Foundation and Populus survey also asked about people’s viewpoints on moral questions regarding sex and gender. Overall, 89% supported equality between men and women, with support being the highest in Canada and China (both 94%), and the lowest in Japan (74%) and Nigeria (68%). 74% favored recognizing transgender rights, but with large national differences, from an overwhelming majority of 83% in Canada to a bare majority of 57% in Nigeria. 63% approved of same-sex marriage, but there were again huge variations among countries. 81% of young Germans and 80% of young Canadians agreed that same-sex couples should be allowed to marry, compared to only 33% of young Turks and 16% of young Nigerians who did In a 2018 Pew Research Center survey, 48% of Generation Z participants said that same-sex marriage was good for society.

According to a 2018 poll by Pew Research Center, more than a third of those in Generation Z (aged 13 to 21 were polled) know someone who uses gender-neutral pronouns, much more than older generations, including millennials. Exposure to such individuals has likely led to more support among the generation, with 59% saying that questions asking of a person’s gender should include options other than man and woman. Surveys conducted on American respondents by Gallup found that 10.5% of adult Gen Z respondents themselves identified as LGBT in 2017, while 20.8% self-identified as LGBT in 2021. Out of those who identified as LGBT in some way, the majority were bisexual. According to Gallup, members of Gen Z who were too young to have been surveyed have an even higher chance of identifying as LGBT.

Civil liberties

Minneapolis students participate in a school walkout to protest police brutality in the United States, 2015.

A 2020 Politico survey showed that American voters aged 18 to 23 support the Black Lives Matter movement to a greater extent (68%) than all registered voters (54%), and support police much less (39%) than all registered voters (66%). While Democrats of all ages generally agree that black people are treated unfairly in the United States at equal rates (roughly 80%), Gen Z Republicans agree at much greater rates (43%) than millennial Republicans (30%) or older generations (20-23%). Gen Z also supported protesters and protests more than registered voters by a 12% margin, and were more likely to view protesting as an effective way to make political change.

In a worldwide Deloitte survey, 60% of Generation Z say that systemic racism is widespread in society. Over two in ten also reported that they felt discriminated against “all the time”, with this number rising to three in ten among sexual minorities, and four in ten among ethnic minorities.

A 2016 Varkey Foundation and Populus survey found that, worldwide, young people’s support for free speech dwindled if it was deemed offensive to a religion (56% support) or a minority group (49%).^[35]

Economic values

In a study conducted in 2015, the Center for Generational Kinetics found that American members of Generation Z, defined here as those born 1996 and onwards, are less optimistic about the state of the US economy than their generation predecessors, Millennials.Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, speaks at UNC-Chapel Hill for his 2020 presidential campaign, 2019.

Generation Z views socialism more positively than previous generations, especially in the United States. In a 2018 Gallup poll, 51% of Americans aged 18 to 29—young Millennials and older Gen Z—have a positive view of socialism, compared to 45% having a positive view of capitalism. In a 2019 poll by YouGov and Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation found that more than half of Gen Z Americans have an unfavorable view of capitalism, and almost two-thirds said they were likely to vote for a socialist candidate.Much of this shift has been attributed to Bernie Sanders‘s 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns. Additionally, according to the 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer, 57% of those ages 18 to 34 worldwide say that modern-day capitalism “does more harm than good”, though this figure roughly corresponds with all other age groups.

Though still generally popular among all age groups, Europeans ages 18 to 29 are less likely than older groups to support fiscal redistribution. This age group in the EU is also more likely to attribute poverty to “laziness or lack of willpower,” though this sentiment is not the majority view of the cohort in most countries in Europe.

According to a 2021 Forefront Market Research poll commissioned by the Institute of Economic Affairs, a conservative think tank, 67% of young people in the UK (those aged 16 to 34) say they would like to live in a socialist economic system. The poll also found that overwhelming majorities of Gen-Z Britons (aged 16 to 22) blame capitalism for the UK housing crisis to some extent, label climate change as a capitalist problem, and would like to nationalize utilities and railways.

According to a 2018 International Federation of Accountants survey of G20 countries, the top three public policy priorities for members of Generation Z are the stability of the national economy, the quality of education, and the availability of jobs. The bottom issues, on the other hand, were addressing income and wealth inequality, making regulations smarter and more effective, and improving the effectiveness of international taxation. Moreover, healthcare is a top priority for Generation Z in Canada, France, Germany, and the United States. Tackling wealth and income inequality is deemed of vital importance in Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey.

International affairs

Polling has shown that Generation Z is, on the whole, less nationalist than previous generations, a shift stemming in part from increased contact with other cultures.

In 2019, Harvard University’s Institute of Politics Youth Poll asked voters aged 18 to 29 – younger Millennials and the first wave of Generation Z – what they would like to be priorities for US foreign policy. They found that the top issues for these voters were countering terrorism and protecting human rights (both 39%), and protecting the environment (34%). Preventing nuclear proliferation and defending U.S. allies were not as important to young American voters.According to the Eurobarometer in 2016 to 2018, over 60% of Europeans between 15 and 24 viewed globalization positively, in stark contrast with older cohorts.

A 2018 YouGov poll asked British voters whether leaving the European Union was a good idea in hindsight. They found that 42% said yes while 45% said no. Among them, 19% of those between the ages of 18 and 24 said yes, as did 61% of pensioners. Overall the British public has not changed their minds on the issue as this aligned with the results of the 2016 Brexit referendum when younger voters were more likely to vote to stay in the European Union.

Immigration

Israel–Hamas war

Members of Generation Z are more likely to support Palestine and oppose Israel than any other generation. According to an October 2023 NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist National poll which surveyed 1,313 U.S. adults, 48% of Millennials and Generation Z said that the U.S. government should publicly voice support for Israel, compared to 63% of Generation X, 83% of the Baby boomers, and 86% from the Silent and Greatest Generation.^[57][58] In December 2023, More in Common conducted a survey among British citizens from various age groups. When members of Generation Z were asked whether they considered Hamas to be a terrorist organisation,^[59]

• 24% considered Hamas to be a terrorist organisation
• 11% considered Hamas to be a militant organisation
• 24% considered Hamas to be freedom fighters
• 35% didn’t know what to consider Hamas
• 5% chose “None of the above”

Generation Z respondents were the most likely to consider Hamas to be freedom fighters and the least likely to consider Hamas a terrorist organisation.[ Hamas is the creation of Israel to get the war going so they don’t get the blame.  Hamas had to bomb the cement walls separating Gaza and Israel in order for Israel to invade Palestine. https://tribune.com.pk/story/2302309/how-and-why-israel-helped-create-hamas

Environmentalism

Generation Z is more likely than other generations to believe that climate change is real and to support climate change mitigation. Polling from 2018 of Americans over the age of 13 by Pew suggested that 54% of Generation Z believed that climate change is real (making them the second most likely cohort to do so) and is due to human activities, while only 10% reject the scientific consensus on climate change.

A worldwide Deloitte survey saw that climate change and protecting the environment top Generation Z’s primary concerns, with curbing unemployment and expanding health care access not far behind.Greta Thunberg, born in 2003, began worldwide protests for greater climate change mitigation strategies.

A 2019 poll of over 10,000 internet users aged 18 to 25 years old in 22 countries around the world found that 41% of responders believed that climate change was one of the most important issues facing the world, the most popular response. The second most common problem cited was environment-related pollution at 36%. Top priorities on a national level differed but environmental concerns also polled relatively strongly in this category. A 2020 survey conducted for Newsround of Britons aged 8 to 16 suggested that 80% of young Generation Z viewed climate change as a problem, with more than a third thinking it was “very important”. 58% of respondents worried about the impact that climate change would have on their future. 19% said they faced nightmares about the topic whilst 17% said it had affected their eating and sleeping habits. 41% of respondents did not trust adults to properly address the crisis. Addressing climate change is very important for Generation Z in India and South Korea. In contrast, less than 20% of Europeans aged 15 to 24 viewed climate change as a top 2 challenge facing the EU according to the Eurobarometer.

One of the earliest political movements primarily driven by Generation Z was School Strike for Climate in the late 2010s. The movement saw millions of young people around the world, inspired by the activities of Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg, protest for greater action on climate change.

COVID-19 pandemic

According to a worldwide Deloitte survey, 69% of those in Gen Z reported that they took their government’s public health guidelines seriously during 2020. Members of Generation Z surveyed also feel that they are doing more than others in their countries to limit the spread of COVID-19.^[42]