Youth and Generational change

Question 1

Name reasons for why the fractures along generational lines began to show after 1980 in the region.

Answer 1

1. Globalization
2. Disillusionment
3. Younger gen. felt excluded from politics - corrupt leaders.
4. 2/3rds of the Algerian population were too young to remember colonialism - wanted change from their elder’s traditions as they no longer understood where they came from.
5. Advances in technology.
6. Not enough housing or jobs - felt let down.
7. Wanted to belong to something as they did not belong to what they elders once did - led to mass joining of groups/extremist groups.