![]() "It’s about someone who wants to sit around and whine and moan and complain about everything instead of actually shutting up, hustling and getting the job done.” "A 'Snowflake' to me isn’t about age, it’s about entitlement," said Reyes. We don’t run a daycare," said Reyes, with The Silent Partner Marketing. The tests included 30 questions, such as "What are your feeling about safe spaces" and "How do you feel about guns?" So let's go 360 for more views, starting with marketing CEO Kyle Reyes, who created a "Snowflake Test" to weed out entitled applicants before hiring. Ropp said "The Snowflake Generation" started as a disparaging description of young people supposedly ruined by helicopter parents and focused on self-esteem. Snowflakes are seen by some as entitled, oversensitive people, defined by "trigger warnings" and "safe spaces." "It simplifies the world to think of large groups of people in terms of one label.” We love stereotypes," said Anna Ropp, an MSU Denver Associate Professor of Psychology. The tough-guy taunt "snowflake" may have started with the novel and film "Fight Club" ("You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake"), but in the last two years, it has become the label of choice for an entire generation. ![]() So, we go 360 on "Generation Snowflake" with multiple perspectives on this insulte du jour. To comment on this or other 360 stories, email us at See more 360 stories here.ĭENVER - "Generation Snowflake." It's a label thrown around often lately, but what does it mean? ![]() Editor's Note: Denver7 360 stories explore multiple sides of the topics that matter most to Coloradans, bringing in different perspectives so you can make up your own mind about the issues.
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