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New York magazine recently ran an extended profile of "Grups" (writer Adam Sternbergh lifted the name from a Star Trek episode in which Capt. Kirk and company visit a planet ruled by perpetual children, who refer to the crew as "grups," their shorthand for grown-ups) and touted them as vanquishers of the generation gap. According to the article, Grups reject the idea that adulthood should consist of wearing a suit and gleefully counting your money in a corner office. Instead, they revel in trendy music and fashion, build lives oriented around their passions, and mould their faux-hawked offspring into tots who eschew Sesame Street for the Strokes.
[Jamie Gruman] says this collective rebellion would never have taken root without the tech boom that created a new corporate culture in which it was acceptable to show up at the office in jeans and three days of stubble, and also to play foosball in the conference room if one needed to recharge between meetings. The Yupsters' apparent refusal to grow up should not be mistaken for a dysfunctional rejection of adult responsibilities, he says, because they are actually gainfully employed adults who have simply adopted the "relatively superficial" trappings of youth culture.See the full content of this document
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Yupsters: The New Breed
They're older, they're hipper and they can afford to be
By Shannon ProudfootOTTAWA -- A flashy new species has been identified in parks and on downtown streets.Their plumage doesn't quite cor...See the full content of this document
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