Xueer Pan by https://padlet.com/s17027282/catomaprwxk1 Youth as a Generation. Young people in the world have experienced problems and obstacles more than ever. They confront fierce international competition, misunderstanding by the old and pressure from physical and psychological world. en-us 2018-02-13 17:28:00 UTC 2025-12-08 08:58:13 UTC hello@padlet.com How to narrow the gap between Generation Y and the Baby Boomer generation? s17027282 https://padlet.com/s17027282/catomaprwxk1/wish/234152066 Communication is fundamental to human existence (p. 497).  Human beings need to contact with each other to keep close with the world. Past decades have witnessed the rapid development of technology and science, and as the generation who was born during this period, Generation Y has been tremendously influenced by this very lifestyle. They have grown up experiencing digital technology and have known it all their lives (p. 500). Members of Generation Y are considered as the web generation (Hartmann, 2003) or the Google generation (Helsper & Enyon, 2009, p. 1). They normally are raised up by overprotective parents who constantly assure that they are special and unique, which enables the young people to challenge the authority when they do not get the recognition they deserve. Generation Y prefers to conduct communications through cell phones, computers and social media all of their lives. 
Baby boomers mostly communicate by face-to-face communication, telephone conversations and e-mail (p. 500). They are competitive and respect authority, but sometimes they obtain pressure because of the inadequate knowledge of technology. Different methods to communicate may rise isolation for both two generations. How to bridge the gap becomes to an attention. The solution to effective communication is that both generations form an open mind to learn from each other, enhancing meaningful relations between generations. 
]]> 2018-02-22 11:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/s17027282/catomaprwxk1/wish/234152066 Young people are regarded as the lost generation s17027282 https://padlet.com/s17027282/catomaprwxk1/wish/234906002 A 24-year-old Danish female left her school with few qualifications. Instead of entering universities like her friends, she is confident about her future and feels no fear about her career, thus she decides to work to gain more experience. Influenced by the economic crisis, Britain, France, Spain and Greece regularly refer to their 15-25 year-olds as the Lost Generation, who face the bleak future. The young people confront poor job prospects and severe debts, complaining that they find it difficult to live their own life in the society. Different from other Europe counterparts, the government in Denmark upholds positive attitude towards young people’s future. They establish apprenticeships to decrease unemployed rate and offer free higher education to the public. Apart from that, Danish people enjoy the sense of social responsibility, which means they may not be socially engaged and political active, but they feel powerful as a part in society. They feel anything but lost.]]> 2018-02-23 20:51:32 UTC https://padlet.com/s17027282/catomaprwxk1/wish/234906002 Unemployment in Scotland s17027282 https://padlet.com/s17027282/catomaprwxk1/wish/234921212 Recently released figures demonstrate that the youth unemployment remains a serious social problem in Scotland and the government adopts a series of approaches to relieve the pressure, such as providing apprenticeships for young people to learn specific skills. The government sets up departments to guide the youth to analyze their expectations and tries to inform them to be realistic, evaluating themselves properly. Professors points out that the job creation did not meet the needs of the increasing world population, which means creating suitable jobs matching for the youth is important.]]> 2018-02-23 21:48:43 UTC https://padlet.com/s17027282/catomaprwxk1/wish/234921212 Chinese youth s17027282 https://padlet.com/s17027282/catomaprwxk1/wish/235038152 From the Cultural Revolution to the present, each decade of Chinese youth has its own characteristics, and represents social trend at that time (p. 264). As the 1990s, China’s youth generation has a large population, over 300 million people generally aged from 14 to 25 years old. Compared to their parent generation, who were taught to sacrifice themselves to the nation and common people, today’s young people are more independent and open-minded. They are living in the period of tremendous change, which affected by the globalization, bringing international youth culture to them. What they concerned are more about personal development, like acquiring educational qualifications, competing in the job market and experiencing social change. 
In the essay, the author depicts the change of China’s youth generations from Tiananmen Square, claiming that Chinese students gradually decrease their expectations to the local universities and reluctantly study further. He attributes the declining enthusiasm to the particular students cheating on the national exams as the main reason, which I personally suppose that it is negative. The declining rate of students entering in country’s universities is because Chinese students have more choices to their future. The improvement of people’s living standard provides the possibility to students to finish their education abroad, and most parents encourage young people to study in overseas institutions if family’s financial condition is available. Apart from that, the input and influence of western culture as well as the pressure form economic market indeed create a social phenomenon that loads of young people prefer to drop out of school to start their own business, in order to obtain more money. Some of them especially in rural areas do not complete their education because of disadvantaged backgrounds, and others may be prompted by the lure of gold (p. 265). 
Chinese parents, officials and governments have concentrated more on youth generation. They believe that the youth issue has become an important problem needed our attention. Also, the constantly independence and openness to the western world will increase economic, social and cultural aspirations to the young people, which could be a potential challenge for Chinese society.
]]> 2018-02-25 00:49:36 UTC https://padlet.com/s17027282/catomaprwxk1/wish/235038152 Chinese youth suicide rate s17027282 https://padlet.com/s17027282/catomaprwxk1/wish/235038564 In some other countries, most young people are died caused by accidents such as road traffic, but in China, especially female in rural areas chose to suicide to end their lives. An astonishing figure illustrates that China has one of the highest rates of female suicide in the world. Some of them do not tolerate arguments of marriage, and others may be disappointed by the enormous financial pressure. Living in the extreme poverty leads young rural females feel no meaning to live in the world. Although China has been a rapid development, the increasing gap between the rich and poor has already caused a series of social issues. ]]> 2018-02-25 00:56:37 UTC https://padlet.com/s17027282/catomaprwxk1/wish/235038564 References s17027282 https://padlet.com/s17027282/catomaprwxk1/wish/235157449 BBC. (2011). 'Lost generation' fear for youth. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-15288210/lost-generation-fear-for-youth
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