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This generation is full with kids who don’t know them self and think it’s appropriate to do things that are truly just not right it doesn’t help that adults are just as confused things are changing by the day with electronics and people perspective on life everything has a good and bad and some sa it has changed for the good but good and bad are even on the score board to me

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Now that we aren't dying of Polio and live longer than ripe old age of "Died in childbirth", this generation will be known for being depressed and memes.

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I think that there are benefits and downfalls regarding living in this day and age. I feel that with new freedoms for groups of people, there are also more prejudices. Same with new policies in government and changes in what is socially acceptable today. Although we face these issues, I feel a benefit of living in today's society is that we are more able to talk about certain things and address them. A downside is the divisions that we currently have and our want to constantly put people in categories based on race, gender, sexuality and more. This leads to certain treatment for and against certain groups that we categorize ourselves in. I feel the world is infinitely more connected than ever before, and that is changing how we interact with each other. This can be a good and a bad thing. I feel there is an upside and a downside to any topic you approach to what it is like to live here and now.

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I feel like I have a wide range of careers I can work in if I just work hard enough. To me, it couldn’t get much better.

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For a person growing up at this time of being and  place, you feel more connected to the people and society. You can interact with people different of you're gender and ethnicity, interact through social media and can express yourselves more. My life would have been much different if I had lived in a different state or country or if I had been brought up in a different time. Not only that, but you are also open to multiple education paths and have the freedom to choose your careers.

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I think the benefits of living in this time is we are surrounded different people and religions which gives us more access and opportunity to learn about it but on the other hand because of social media many racial tension rise and it can become a negative and hateful thing instead of a learning thing.

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i just moved here like 3 months ago and here in cary its really diverse. where i used to live it was diverse but i felt more at home because most kids there were Hispanic and black whereas here its a lot of other races. But i have not really seen any Hispanics in my perspective.

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The fact that we live in Cary, a very diverse community, we are open to the concept of neodiversity more than other many other places. This gives us tools for better interpersonal relations with people from all walks of life. We are also living in a place where food, clean water, shelter, education, and many other necessities are easily accessible. Because of this, we are very privileged and "blessed". We are given all these tools that our parents, grandparents, or any other previous generation in our family didn't have, without us having to do any work for it. Challenge-wise, we are now given standards to apply these tools we were given. We are expected to do more, and perhaps some of us were groomed in such a comfortable way that this is too difficult. Since we are used to so many things being provided to us, we are afraid to venture out for more, because we aren't used to stepping out in order to do so. We are also succumb to ignorance of situations going on elsewhere in the world, blinded by the fact that everything here is almost perfect.

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Although we have less physical problems such as walking 10 km to school, we have a lot more emotional issues. The world is much more diverse nowadays than it ever has been but that could also cause issues like bigotry.

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We live in a very diverse area and there a lot of people moving here and its it's kind of sad because so many forrest's are being destroyed to build homes and more shoppingand schools are becoming overpopulated as well.

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It's hard to grow up now when there is so much technology because I feel like we live our entire lives online. Technology is handy but I feel like people try really hard to put up a certain image of themselves online and on social media when in reality their life is nothing like that

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It’s a time where we take many things for granted, as they’ve always been constants for us. Diversity is pretty much a given, conflict is through the roof, and there’s a distinct lack of secrets. The opinion and outlook someone has is constantly being tested with how easy it is for people to say anything nowadays. Even the smallest mouse of a voice can blow the most insignificant thing out of per portion, and when you say something, how you say something, and what you say is constantly up for misinterpretation.

Honestly, it’s a little frightening.

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We are very privileged to grow up right now, but we face the challenge of living unto expectations that are set for us. It's very hard to live in a world where we have so much readily available to us, but we may never be, "good enough." People can take any insecurity someone has that they shouldn't know about and use it as a way to hurt you.

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we are growing up in a more accepting era compared to my parents generation. we are allowed more freedom and space to be creative and allow for more connections to people and places

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It’s pretty normal since we don’t really know anything else but I guess compared to other generations it’s drastically different because of things like technolgy. I would say we’re also growing up in a world with a lot more judgement and hate and I feel like that affects our perspective on the world and it’s problems.

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Growing up here in Cary means we are privileged, we have access to a lot of things some people don't have, we have great education and so much technology to keep us connected to the world.

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It is kind of depressing because of the circulating negativity online but uplifting at the same time because there are people in the world working for better change for everyone. The advancements in health and technology are cool too but at the same time everything is so expensive.

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It's kind of stressful to grow up in this time period. Students have more pressure than ever to perform well in school and go to college because walking into the world with a high school degree will get you a 1 way trip to a job at fast food. We also need to be careful of what we say because saying the wrong thing can offend someone easily. We also see a lot more about mental health and how many people are more stressed than ever and the number of people with depression keeps going up. Today's world is a lot more complex than the world 10 - 15 years ago.

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Growing up in this time means instant information. Anyone in any little trailer park or gated community can google the same thinks. I think this makes us more informed, but also makes us more likely to interpret the information how we please, and more able to pick our facts and news sources to fit our agenda. This wealth of information is doing for our Democracy what webMD does for doctors. It puts information in the hands of people who do not know how to use it. Sometimes people don't know what they want until it is given to them. We are growing up in the greatest intellectual and social revolution since the renaissance. Increased social interaction and information sharing are a double edged sword. Growing up in this day and age means less direct democracy to protect our freedom to choose. A paradox with no clear answer.

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We have access to and incredible amount of information, but along with technology we loose our privacy (with corporations knowing everything about us) and we loose our human connection. Social media can bring us into these bubbles (social AND political) where we are surrounded by these opinions that we agree with  and we loose our real connections with people and why others may think differently than us.

Geographically, Cary is a very diverse community, and a rapidly growing one. In the 1980 census, Cary had only 25,000 citizens. That number is over 130,000. There are lots of construction projects, mowing down trees to build more townhomes for more people. I fear that Cary is loosing the natural charm and is becoming more urban, but without the benefits of urban living (public transportation, being ale to walk places, etc.) More cars means more traffic and more pollution. But that is a symptom of growth, I suppose.

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What it means to me to grow up in here and now is to grow up in a world where I am allowed to get an education but be restricted to the certain privileges that come with it.

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its makes us live lives where we are rely on technology and there is a lot of pressure on us to succeed in life and there’re lots of expectations

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Growing up here and now at this specific time is very difficult because of school, work, and events. The benefits of growing up now is more technology and it's peaceful there.The challenges would be more freedom to lay back in work and school, stressful, and difficult to communicate with others.

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Now at this time it is very controversial and judgmental. we are growing up in a tech savy time period where social media and phones limit our conversations with other people. But we can also travel easier and make new scientific discoveries.

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Growing up here and now, I think that society is more judgmental and sensitive in this time period than any other. Technology is a plus though because it makes our lives a lot easier compared to the earlier times.

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It is interesting to grow up in such an emotionally volatile time. Everything you say and do can be interpreted as offensive to another to the point where they will attack you for it. To society, someone is guilty until proven innocent and will still receive harassment afterwards. Thankfully it isn't like that here, people here in this technology center are more open minded because of the people coming from other countries.

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People are very accepting and open minded. It is amazing living in a place with so many kindhearted, wonderful people. While there is still room for improvement, we are still fortunate to live today instead of decades ago.