Your Generation

[Darlene_Ihnfsa]

I'm in a thinkful mood today...

 

1. Do you feel identified with your generation whatever yours is? (which one is yours?)

 

2. Do you think your generation has, is on the way to or had had a clear objective of what to do?

 

3. Do you agree with that objective?

 

4. Do you take part actively on it?

 

5. What do you think that you have in common with your generation?

 

6. what would you highlight as the most interesting thing of your generation? (common historical event, artistical innovations...). So why would yours will be remembered for.

 

7. what do you think that had influenced more to your generation about the previous one?

 

8. what do you think that yours will influence on the next generation?

 

9. who would you say that was, is or will be the leader of your generation?

10. do you think that your generation has been, is or will be critic about events and their own behave, acts by themselves or they just will follow some flow?

 

 

feel free to discuss about it and to leave more questions.

 

i leave you this song, may it inspires you to discuss that topic.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0XknwXqLDo

[Space Cadet]

Interesting questions I've been thinking about them myself a lot lately.

 

1. Do you feel identified with your generation whatever yours is? (which one is yours?) Yes, very much, and no at the same time. I'm part of the handful of birth years that fall into the crack between generations X and Y. So I share my contemporaries feelings of confusion and aimlessness. I've grown up identifying with generation X, get to the point of being told I'm gen Y and realizing I have a lot of gen Y traits, and yet like most people my age (26) not feeling like I really belong to either.

 

2. Do you think your generation has, is on the way to or had had a clear objective of what to do? No, not at all. We sort of just want to do our own things, and hope some greater purpose comes along and smacks us in the head some day.

 

3. Do you agree with that objective? I don't see an alternative.

 

4. Do you take part actively on it? What the searching? Sort of. I think things are going to change drastically in the next 10 years to be honest, once all the boomers retire and their stranglehold on culture relaxes a bit. Maybe then things will be a lot clearer.

 

5. What do you think that you have in common with your generation? Restlessnes, searching, hope and enthusiasm balanced with selfishness and entitlement, a head full of pop culture and no idea what to do with it, the timidity that comes from being part of the bubblewrapped generation, a healthy dose of cynicism, love of personal time rather than money... it goes on.

 

6. what would you highlight as the most interesting thing of your generation? (common historical event, artistical innovations...). So why would yours will be remembered for. I think our time is yet to come. Sept. 11th is our equivalent of the Kennedy assassination, I think- the first time I'd ever experienced anything BIG and world-changing; the proverbial loss of innocence. I don't think the Y's will ever really be unified, it's too much about finding your own thing. I think any random big things we do come up with have yet to come.

 

7. what do you think that had influenced more to your generation about the previous one? Sorry, I'm not sure what this one is asking?

 

8. what do you think that yours will influence on the next generation?

We're more embracing of the past than those who went before us. I think that's going to open a lot of doors to the past sooner for the next ones than they were opened for us.

 

9. who would you say that was, is or will be the leader of your generation?

I don't really think we trust leaders like that. Just look at the tabloids, even the gods of the pop world are being torn down these days. Leaders mess up, and we seem to revel in that.

10. do you think that your generation has been, is or will be critic about events and their own behave, acts by themselves or they just will follow some flow? Sorry, I'm not sure about what this means either...

[Darlene_Ihnfsa]

you are welcome Erin, if you have more questions about it, feel free to post them ;)

 

1. Do you feel identified with your generation whatever yours is? (which one is yours?)

Not that much, may be because i don't like to be labeled of follow the newest fashion about whatever.. not that tech dependant (had a car at home when i was 14, had a mobile phone when i was 15, well is not the same about computers because when i was born my dad had those old 'amstrad' ones) btw i am suppoused to be a Generation Y person.

 

2. Do you think your generation has, is on the way to or had had a clear objective of what to do?

Not, they clearly don't know what to do, they are lost, most them had grown up alone, 'cause their parents are always busy working so they (parents) feel guilty for that and then they buy them whatever they want to, so them are very poshy (they don't use to realise about how lucky they use to be), that's why they had become tech dependent and can't stop buying things, to fill a natural behaviour that help use to grow up as a person, as they feel void for this lack of communitation they have to kill time doing many useless things.

 

3. Do you agree with that objective?

as i've said i think that they have not objetive at least a worthy one... i think that an innovation must come soon. i feel as we are doing the same stuff since a century ago (i mean artistically and cultural).

 

4. Do you take part actively on it?

depends... i mean in a cultural way i try to (few interesting things to follow i fear, as i find most of them politically poluted in some way :thinking: ), but as i said i think they have no objective so... just follow a fashion because is a cool thing to do... i don't like most of their messages.

 

5. What do you think that you have in common with your generation?

very few things... i'm not that technologic, i've been lucky to had been grown up in a 'tradiotional' family.

i don't agree with their ideas at all (my generation), may be partially with some of them, but the way they 'promote' them :\

 

6. what would you highlight as the most interesting thing of your generation? (common historical event, artistical innovations...). So why would yours will be remembered for.

11S has shocked many people, and for me 11M too. But the end of 'Cold War' i think is what had 'caused' all that, and was the begining of my generation, also the Chernobyl nuclear accident. (was just the year i was born if i am not mistaken).

 

7. what do you think that had influenced more to your generation about the previous one?

The music and so their messages, (i think that had been mistaken many times but well...) as my generation is meant to be a tech one i think that what had influenced them most are sounds and visuals, i mean tv too, and videoclips, realities shows and mainstream tv and radio.

 

8. what do you think that yours will influence on the next generation?

I hope that next generation will learn of my generation's mistakes, but seen as mine hadn't learn from the previous one mistaks... :uhoh: I hope that we get to have an objective and so to make things be better, but honestly i doubt it.

 

9. who would you say that was, is or will be the leader of your generation?

traditionally leaders were 'politicians', now are 'artists': musicians, actors... not other people like writers, painters... that is a lack in my opinion. I think that arts should keep making people think about things, being critics and that but i see nobody being really critic about our present.

 

10. do you think that your generation has been, is or will be critic about events and their own behave, acts by themselves or they just will follow some flow?

not, they aren't, they are just fashion followers, so the same goes with opinions and ideas, if is cool now to say i am an ecologist they become one 'by heart' from one day to next day, but if next week what is cool is to be a robber, they will become one.

so in that way how they can be critics about their behaviour and stuff?.. i think it all came from what i've said at the first point. society today has skipped an important basic thing, communication with who you have closer: your family.

[Darlene_Ihnfsa]

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[Tnspieler1012]

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[lndnsky]

I feel boring so....

 

1. Do you feel identified with your generation whatever yours is? (which one is yours?)

Well not really. But I think in my case its more about the place where I am. I listen to different music, I think different. But I do like some stuff that my generation like. So Im somewhere in between. And Im almost 21, but my generation in my country is called "The War kids", cause we grew up in time of war so we are kind of problematic generation. I am suppoused to be a Generation Y person.

2. Do you think your generation has, is on the way to or had had a clear objective of what to do?

Well most people I know do know what to do in life, but there are many that don't or they just don't care.

3. Do you agree with that objective?

Not really... I think we need a change.

4. Do you take part actively on it?

Not really. Maybe because I think that nothing can be changed (at least in my country). People are still very old-fashion. New stuff frighten them a lot.

5. What do you think that you have in common with your generation?

The opinion that we can't change much.

6. what would you highlight as the most interesting thing of your generation? (common historical event, artistical innovations...). So why would yours will be remembered for.

As I said, in my country my generation is often called "The War kids", we grew up in time of war.

7. what do you think that had influenced more to your generation about the previous one?

What I said in question before. We grew up in time of huge stress. Afraid that we won't see our dads anymore, that they will be killed in action, the fact that most of us still get crazy when he here fireworks cause somewhere deep inside we remember awful times.

8. what do you think that yours will influence on the next generation?

They will learn on our mistakes.

9. who would you say that was, is or will be the leader of your generation?

I hope it will be artists, smart people in technology. Anyone but politicians (and I study political science:D), they just screw things up.

10. do you think that your generation has been, is or will be critic about events and their own behave, acts by themselves or they just will follow some flow?

There will be people who will be critic, but as a mass we will follow some flow.

[The Mad Hatter]

1. Do you feel identified with your generation whatever yours is? (which one is yours?)

I feel completely fine in Generation Y, but I do not identify with many of my peers. Many of us have been "babied," I guess you could call it. Most of us seek gratification and reward without doing any work. Most people seem to beg for praise without deserving it. I don't know if that's just my generation, or if people have always done that. Everybody is more worried about doing something that gets them noticed rather than doing the things that are right.

 

2. Do you think your generation has, is on the way to or had had a clear objective of what to do?

It seems that one person comes along every once in a while, attempting to give us direction (like Barack Obama). We don't really work together to achieve one objective; we are all separated and busy doing our own things. Hopefully, all of these major world-changing events will wake us up to the things that we'll have to confront when it is our turn to run the world. Maybe we don't have a clear objective now, but we will soon.

 

3. Do you agree with that objective?

I just think everybody should do what they have to do to survive and succeed.

 

4. Do you take part actively on it?

I'll be surviving soon enough.

 

5. What do you think that you have in common with your generation?

I guess I'm just more able with technology. However, I've noticed more and more that there are many people my age who know nothing about computers, which is totally surprising to me! I have the constant need (or want) to be communicating in any way I can with people outside of the those whom I see each day. I DEFINITELY have nothing to do with the unthinking part of this generation due to us having limitless information at our fingertips 24/7.

 

6. what would you highlight as the most interesting thing of your generation? (common historical event, artistical innovations...). So why would yours will be remembered for.

9/11, definitely. For a lot of us, it was the first devastating event that we can remember. Some American children, including myself, didn't know how much of an effect it would have on us until we were older and our country was split in two. We took sides, but we didn't understand them. I was a die hard patriot, just because my father expected it. Many of us found our voices after being forced to take sides. Also, a lot of us ride the fence now that we've seen the positive and negative influences that war can have on the world.

 

Woo, rambling.

 

7. what do you think that had influenced more to your generation about the previous one?

The boldness of humanity. Attacks on our homeland, which many people were definitely not used to. And then more threats. It was a shock to find that so many people were determined to destroy others, no matter what country it happened to be. It's still happening. People are still standing up for what they believe in all over the place. However, sometimes they believe in the wrong things.

 

8. what do you think that yours will influence on the next generation?

We'll probably have a pretty cynical outlook on everything by the time this is over. That will probably carry over to the next generation, unless they decide to turn it around and change everything. Massive change might bring about some sort of dystopian society, though. I'm looking too far ahead, really. I don't know what the future will bring.

 

9. who would you say that was, is or will be the leader of your generation?

Artists. We place so much value on these musicians, painters, and other creative people. I could say Obama, but truthfully, I'm hoping against it.

10. do you think that your generation has been, is or will be critic about events and their own behave, acts by themselves or they just will follow some flow?

We're already feeling pretty shitty about things that have happened, but most of that we couldn't control. I don't think we'll learn from history, because we certainly aren't reacting to things that are happening around us now in a way that would suggest we know anything about past events. We'll follow the same pattern we've been following for as long as people have existed.

[Darlene_Ihnfsa]

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[Ceckers]

Ari you love bumping your old threads, don't you?! :P

[Darlene_Ihnfsa]

Ari you love bumping your old threads, don't you?! :P

well i'm just trying to bring up some discussion topics... :uhoh:

[Ceckers]

well i'm just trying to bring up some discussion topics... :uhoh:

 

It's ok I don't bite :P

 

They're very interesting topics :nice:

[mc_squared]

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[Ceckers]

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:D

 

Love anything reggae!

[Cobalt]

This reminds me of an awesome game show called Talking Bout Your Generation which is generally amusing to watch. However, back on topic a bit more

 

 

1. Do you feel identified with your generation whatever yours is? (which one is yours?) Generation Y, and no.

 

2. Do you think your generation has, is on the way to or had had a clear objective of what to do?

Ppffffffffffffffffftttt! No way! They want to do their own thing - socializing, technology, blah blah.

 

3. Do you agree with that objective?

Well, I myself prefer to do my own thing, but I don't agree with their idea of socializing and whatnot, of course. Also, their ideas suck majorly.

 

4. Do you take part actively on it?

Meh. Depends.

 

5. What do you think that you have in common with your generation?

A love of technology and INTERNETS. That is all.

 

6. what would you highlight as the most interesting thing of your generation? (common historical event, artistical innovations...). So why would yours will be remembered for.

I... don't have anything to respond with here. I mean, my gen mostly seems to be a bunch of airheads.

 

7. what do you think that had influenced more to your generation about the previous one?

Governments, social issues, etc

 

8. what do you think that yours will influence on the next generation?

Jesus Christ I hope they don't influence too much on the next generation or we'll have a world full of dumb asses.

 

9. who would you say that was, is or will be the leader of your generation?

Um... don't know.

 

10. do you think that your generation has been, is or will be critic about events and their own behave, acts by themselves or they just will follow some flow?

The younger ones don't really seem to care about events. The older ones a bit more. I think they'll try to justify everything they do to be right though, and will turn a blind eye on a lot of things.

[Luka Modric]

Yossarian's generation loves pills and ganja. Yossarian loves pills and ganja. Yossarian is very at one with his peers and comrades of this VERY COLD GAME OF HIS :angry:.

 

Good threads.

[Darlene_Ihnfsa]

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