TimmyHImpatient, disloyal and selfish freeloaders?
April 1st 2008 00:10
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An interesting article by Heath Bilmore was published in yesterday's Sun herald. As part of a beat up of Generation Y's "saving bonanza" it outlined the syereotypes associated with the Y Generation. Ignoring the obvious minority of the report the article sights, apparently we are "commonly characterised as impatient, disloyal and selfish freeloaders." Touche Mr Bilmore.
However, it might also be worthwhile pointing out to us Y Gen's that we are in no way special. Call us what we really are, generic and ordinary. To characterise the Y Generation as selfish and impatient is to imply that these characteristics are not present in other generations.
Perhaps the Baby Boomers with their heavily subsidised educations, desperate hunger for knowledge via the new media of the day i.e. Television and blatant contempt for the actions of their elected government with regard to military involvement in Indo-china might have been seen in a similar light by their elders?
A more acurate portrayal would be to suggest that human beings between the ages of 14-30 are "commonly characterised as impatient, disloyal and selfish freeloaders." But then again, that's not news is it?
An interesting article by Heath Bilmore was published in yesterday's Sun herald. As part of a beat up of Generation Y's "saving bonanza" it outlined the syereotypes associated with the Y Generation. Ignoring the obvious minority of the report the article sights, apparently we are "commonly characterised as impatient, disloyal and selfish freeloaders." Touche Mr Bilmore.
However, it might also be worthwhile pointing out to us Y Gen's that we are in no way special. Call us what we really are, generic and ordinary. To characterise the Y Generation as selfish and impatient is to imply that these characteristics are not present in other generations.
Perhaps the Baby Boomers with their heavily subsidised educations, desperate hunger for knowledge via the new media of the day i.e. Television and blatant contempt for the actions of their elected government with regard to military involvement in Indo-china might have been seen in a similar light by their elders?
A more acurate portrayal would be to suggest that human beings between the ages of 14-30 are "commonly characterised as impatient, disloyal and selfish freeloaders." But then again, that's not news is it?
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