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07/21/2009 1:40 PM
coboardgirl wrote: the lakes slave wrote: As for the comment about that generation being the most self entitled...wrong, that's the current generation. The one that most of us are in. Today's generation is too busy yapping on cell phones and worrying about me, me, me, to care about anything important. Wrong. Today's generation (that would be Gen Y, born around 1983) are more involved in public and community service and charity than any other generation, ever. I'm going to have to ask where you got that information, because everything I've ever seen says the contrary or that there really isn't much of a difference between the generations and how much time or money they dedicate to charity. And I think that when they talk about self entitlement they're more talking about how kids of our generation demand a lot more of their parents than kids of other generations ever did. I mean, think about it. Nowadays we often EXPECT our parents to pay for college. I don't believe our parents generation expected that. A lot of the kids I grew up with EXPECTED their parents to buy the latest fashions, help buy their first car (if not just give them one outright), etc. These were things our parents did not expect of their parents. We also expected (up until the last few years) to get a great job right out of college that paid really well and had great benefits. I don't know if that was something our parents expected. From what I've seen of my parents, that was never something they expected - even with college degrees. It was something they worked for. And I think that our parents ARE to blame for making our generation feel so entitled to these things so they definitely have their own part in it, but so do we.
the lakes slave wrote: As for the comment about that generation being the most self entitled...wrong, that's the current generation. The one that most of us are in. Today's generation is too busy yapping on cell phones and worrying about me, me, me, to care about anything important. Wrong. Today's generation (that would be Gen Y, born around 1983) are more involved in public and community service and charity than any other generation, ever.
As for the comment about that generation being the most self entitled...wrong, that's the current generation. The one that most of us are in. Today's generation is too busy yapping on cell phones and worrying about me, me, me, to care about anything important.
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