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• Cafe Minimalism: To espouse a philosophy of minimalism without actually putting into practice any of its tenets.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• McJob: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, low-benefit, no-future job in the service sector.
  Frequently considered a satisfying career choice by people who have never held one....
• Armanism: After Georgio Armani: an obsession with mimicking the seamless and (more importantly) *controlled* ethos of Italian couture.
  Lake Japanese Minimalism, Armanism reflects a profound inner need for control....
• Conspicuous Minimalism: A life-style tactic similar to Status Substitution.
  The nonownership of material goods flaunted as a token of moral and intellectual superiority....
• Homeowner Envy: Feelings of jealousy generated in the young and the disenfranchised when facing gruesome housing statistics.
  -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Ethnomagnetism: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhood
  You wouldn't understand it there, mother - they *hug* where I live now....
• Mental Ground Zero: The location where one visualizes oneself during the dropping of the atomic bomb
  frequently, a shopping mall. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X...
• Me-ism: A search by an individual, in the absence of training in the traditional religious tenets, to formulate a personally tailored religion by himself.
  Most frequently a mishmash of reincarnation, personal dialogue with a nebulously defined god figure, naturalism, and karmic eye-for-eye attitudes....
• Metaphasia: An inability to perceive metaphor. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X