You're the one for me, Fatty!

In Korea, the older generation and the younger generation have opposing political views. As far as I know, all the younger generation have the same politics, and likewise with the older generation. One of my adult students told me this. He said that Korea was polarized. Another student replied that he thought polarized was an excellent word. We were talking about the generation gap, and he thought that the two generations were completely different and couldn't get along with each other, and that polarized expressed this because it brought in the idea of magnets. And this is how a metaphor helped me to think of the issue in a different way. I commented that actually the parts of magnets that are alike repel each other, and the opposites attract. So maybe, I said, the two generations are the same, both self-centered at heart.