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| Future of America | |||||||||
| Who is Generation Y? If you have ever seen a sixteen year old driving down the street, going ninety miles an hour, in a Lexus or BMW that cost twice as much as you earn in a year; if you have seen a whiney teenager arguing with their parents in the mall that the clothes they picked out are not expensive enough; if you have ever come across a teen or young adult who thinks a political party is a sophisticated celebration, then chances are you know who Generation Y is. They are a spoiled bunch of children, teens and young adults who have no interest in politics or things that cost less than what they can afford. | |||||||||
| Another important part of Generation Y is fashion. Every generation has set trends and made some loud fashion statements, but Generation Y, with its immense diversity has set forth trends as diverse as they are. They did the "off the rear" look. You know that one, it is when the guys wear pants that are two sizes too big and they don't bother to wear a belt. There was also a huge blast from the past amongst the girls. They stole the hippie bell bottom look from their moms (and in some cases their grandmothers). The look is hugely popular among girls, though it didn't take well with the guys. Something about wearing the same thing that women wear is a problem for them. I guess they're not as secure as their predecessors from the 70s were. | |||||||||
| Perhaps one of the things most people focus on when they talk about Generation Y is the advertisement changes that have revolved around them. It doesn't strike me as at all strange that they decide to change everything so that it revolved around them. They get what they want, when they want, no questions asked. They have everyone on strings, including their parents and the advertisement and marketing industries. They are puppets in the hands of Generation Y. | |||||||||
| Generation Y loves technology. They love it so much that they would probably die without it, literally. Generation Y is hugely dependant on technology and computers and they have become increasingly lazy. They are accustomed to taking shortcuts for everything, but what happens if those shortcuts are no longer available? What would happen if aliens came to Earth and stole all of our computers and killed everyone who knew how to make more computers and stole all of the plans and blueprints for making computers? Could you imagine how Generation Y would react? They would most likely lay down and die if they did not have their Playstations and cell phones, not to mention email or the internet. It be worse than WW III for them. | |||||||||
| On a more serious note, Generation Yers are not just spoiled fashion monkeys with a serious technology dependency problem, they are also politically incompetent. They know as much about politics as they do about the ten commandments, which is not much judging by their actions. Most of them find politics to be pointless and they do not give it the attention that it deserves. Maybe voting for a political candidate is not appealing to them, but what they do not realize is that if they do not, then they leave the decision in their parents' and grandparents' hands; their old, conservative, somewhat Amish like hands. Why do the old people have all of the rights and advantages in our community? Because they get their clothed rears out of their seats on election day and vote. The power has and always will be in the hands of the voters. We do live a democracy after all. Generation Y can complain all they want about the irrelevance of politics, but when it comes down to it, politics and voting affect everyone's life. | |||||||||
| Who is Generation Y? Generation Y is a waste, much like the recent sitcoms that have flopped on Fox. They have nothing to band them together except their wasteful money spending habits, trendiness, and their desire to take the easy way out of everything. They are like leeches, trying to get to the top by riding there on their parents? backs. They have little to no work ethic and would much rather be at home watching MTV than at the polls voting for who should spend the next four years running our country. I guess I can see the sense in that though, Justin Timberlake and Brittany Spears are a lot easier on the eyes than George Bush. | |||||||||
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