This is true. I am doing uni now with zoomers and it feels a lot safer. I am far more at ease now even though I am ancient compared to them and have a long history of being bullied. Noticed this when I did substitute teaching as well.

They also call you out on things like putting yourself down for your work just in case, a very gen X thing. And have also informed me that dating apps aren’t really used anymore and people prefer in person connection more again, they are organizing a lot of get-togethers.

Also drinking. I am from a generation where getting shitfaced in a concert was supposedly “fun”. Or heavy drinking in general. My kid and his friends genuinely prefer going to events sober or with light drinking, same with uni stuff. I mean they still drink, but not nearly as much. And non-drinking stuff is popular too.

Also openness to vegan food. It’s a total non issue to make and eat vegan in an event. Go back ten years and even millenials I feel have far more brainwormy takes on “but muh meats!”.

Edit. Now that I got going with the praise a few more things came to mind that I admire genuinely:

Far more principled takes on politics. Even things like boycotting I have noticed they follow through long term.

Making value based choices and sticking to them. Like buying clothes second-hand. Far less treat brained paradoxically. Often buying one good thing that will last years.

I know people keep saying the youngest generation is always most progressive, but I disagree. I have seen my own youth and been told about my parents hippie youth and neither ever actually engaged with anything more than being libs about the things. Or knew anything.

The kids these days are in a fundamentally different position with all the crisis and late stage capitalism. And the internet has made them aware of things in ways no generation before has been.