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| Us Few, Us Proud Few | ||||||||||
| According to the age groups, I technically belong to Generation Y. The problem with that, however, is that I do not hold many of the same ideals as the majority of the members of Generation Y. My Generation has been labeled spoiled and lazy, without ambition or direction. They say we have no inclination towards politics and no significant plans for our future. We are painted as a tainted generation with no work ethic, but even in this tainted generation, there are still a good few. | ||||||||||
| Generation Y is overflowing with children, teenagers, and young adults that have more financial resources than any generation before them. The Generation Xers who became wealthy have had children and made them the richest group of youngsters to ever exist. It is sad to see how so many teens and young adults depend on their parents to provide them with everything. They refuse to commit to hard work to earn anything; they expect mommy and daddy to provide everything to them on a silver platter. And when I say everything, I mean everything from spending money, clothes, and cars to money for their college educations. Where do we draw the line? | ||||||||||
| In high school, one of the most important things to my classmates was to have a car. Everyone who turned sixteen expected their parents to buy them one, and not just any car, it had to be a nice car, usually no more than two or three years old. Everything was about how expensive your clothes were and how big of a house you lived in. Politics was just about as important to them as the piece of gum stuck under their desk; no one cared. This generations biggest concern was not nuclear war or the U.S. falling into an economic slump, their worries revolved around whether or not their clothes were in style and if they had the latest cell phone model. Everything important to them had to do with materialistic things; their whole lives orbited around all things trivial. | ||||||||||
| It is hard to say what future generations will say and think of us. Our children may be more spoiled, selfish, and lazy than even us. We will most likely be described as the generation who made it to the top riding on our parents' backs. The problem with that is that we are not all like that. Some of us have genuine interests in politics and the affairs of the country. We are not all spoiled children driving BMWs and mooching off of our parents. Some of us work hard to attend school and we earn everything we have by the labor of our hands, just as the generations that came before us. We are still here, us few, fighting a losing battle against the consumerist habits of our peers. Our war is not waged in the trenches of Vietnam, but rather in the trenches of our society. There, us few, us undying few, will fight against the stereotypes that plague our generation. | ||||||||||
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