Thinking of all the wars
during centuries, people understand that this kind of conflicts defined
differently the generations while creating gaps in between them at the same
time. It seems that the older people can't understand the problems of the younger’s while thinking
that the youngers have no sense of what's really important. In reality, both
generations have different meanings for what's really important in life, just
because their experiences are different while sharing no common ground.
The generation of Baby
Boomers, who are born from 1943 to 1960, is different from the “Silent
Generation," who are born from 1925 to 1942, from the generation of the
late 1960s and early 1970s, and from the generation of the 1990s.In time, the
gaps between the generations of the parents and the children are getting bigger
than usual and the generations of the
grandparents are less successful while standing in between as mentors and
mediators.
In 1990, people needed real
values, an ethical rectitude, a political correctness, and a return to their
simple life. This correctness meant a necessity for reinforcing the entire
society with a new meaning.
Among the generation of
Baby Boomers and their children having an anti-Boom attitude, the gap has been
very well described in the prose of some emerging young writers as Coupland,
Nix, Brett Easton Ellis, Nancy Smith, Steven Gibb, Eric Liu, Gael Fashingbauer,
David Bernstein, Robert Lukefahr, and Ian Williams.
The younger generation
blamed the Boomers for everything had gone wrong in their world, a tendency
that was clearly growing in an irreversible way once Boomers moved fully into
the positions of the political leaderships.
The end of the Cold War has
persuaded the youngers to accept the democratic style of their parents.
The following economic and
cultural crisis has led to some toxic reactions and to a hostility to the
generation in power, the youngers using alcohol and drugs to face on the war,
the poverty and the unemployment.
The parents have used an
idealistic style to educate their children, while ignoring the poverty, the
disease, the crimes, and even the temporary nuisances being a result of losing
the wealth during the crisis.
These idealistic youngers
had to face the reality of the crisis generated by the wars.
The post-communist Europe
became an object of study regarding its relative weakness, so many observers
expecting the post-communist societies to be strong and vibrant. The
developments surrounding the collapse of the communism are temporary solutions
because in this world seen as a whole, nothing is collapsing without
consequences.
The post-communist young
generation could offer a much more positive evaluation regarding the political
and the economic changes in their countries than any of their parents could do
this after the falling of the Iron
Curtain. In time, the youngers learned to develop a free market economy and
this change in thinking started to create
an immense gap between the generations. In a report released by the Pew
Research Center in 2010, it is mentioned that the younger’s „ political
socialization has taken place under a context that is drastically different
from that of their older peers, who came of age under totalitarian regimes.’’
The gap between the
generations expressed through their different attitudes regarding the democracy
of this new capitalism belonging to Eastern Europe is, in fact, a separation
caused by a disagreement regarding the past, the present, and the future. Both
generations focus on the problems of their countries, but while the elderly
persons look back longingly, the youngers have confidence in the democratic
policy hoping to become well-prepared leaders and decision-makers in Eastern
Europe someday. ''They move away from a state-controlled economy.''
In the post-communist
countries, there are gaps in-between the generations regarding the attitudes
toward the democratic principles like freedom of speech, honest elections, a
fair judiciary, a civilian-controlled military, freedom of the press, and
religious freedom . These gaps are still important in some countries like
Poland and somewhat less pronounced in other countries like the Czech Republic.
To stop the destruction of
the old ideals, the economic downturn, and the mass poverty, many regimes have
striven to maintain their legitimacy in this age of democracy and to preserve
autonomy through reinstating the rule of law, order, and stability. Some of
these regimes remained authoritarian, others tried to re-establish their lost
democracy in this chaos generated by the dissensions existent between the
internal ethnic people and by the wars against the outside enemies.
This oscillation in terms
of the idea of democracy is an impediment to the evolution of the new
generation who needs a pacifist thinking to understand the effects of the
political and economic crisis of the civil society for the economic development
during the accommodation to the demands
of the globalization.
Some trends in both employment
status and wages have likely contributed
to the long-run increase in the share of young adults living with their
parents.
The employed young men are
much less likely to live at home with their parents than the young men without
jobs, and the employment among the young men has fallen in the last decades.
While having weak job opportunities, the young adults need this help of their
parents to weather the economic storm. Younger generations tend to have more
positive views than their elders about small and large businesses as well as
financial institutions and labor unions, but probably they need help to make
this be useful. Unfortunately, they
still need help in this struggle to get hired and to hold on to jobs that often
are below their level of training. When we think of the religious restrictions
and hostilities despite a continued rise in religion-related terrorism, we
understand their future. Let's remember that they are the future mature
inhabitants of this world!
Reference:
-‚Old vs. Young’ By DAVID LEONHARDT,JUNE 22, 2012, The New
York Times
-The Post-Communist Generation in the Former Eastern Bloc,
Pew Research Center Global Attitudes & Trends, JANUARY 20, 2010
-‚The Weakness Of Post communist Civil Society’ by Marc
Morjé Howard, From: Journal of Democracy
Volume 13, Number 1, January 2002 pp. 157-169 |
10.1353/jod.2002.0008
-The Limits of the MatrixIdeas and Power in Russian
Politics of the 2000s by Gulnaz Sharafutdinova.
- For First Time in Modern Era, Living With Parents Edges
Out Other Living Arrangements for 18- to 34-Year-Olds, Share living with spouse
or partner continues to fall BY RICHARD
FRY
-The Developmental State in the Globalizing World by FEINA
CAI, DEC 22 2010
[MARIETA MAGLAS]
BIOGRAPHY:
Ardus Publications, Sybaritic Press,
Prolific Press, and some others published the poems of Marieta in anthologies
like Tanka Journal, edited by Glenn Lyvers, The Aquillrelle Wall of Poetry,
edited by Yossi Faybish, A Divine Madness: An Anthology of Modern Love Poetry,
edited by John Patrick Boutilier, Near Kin:A Collection of Words and Art
Inspired by Octavia Estelle Butler, edited by Marie Lecrivain, Three Line
Poetry #25, edited by Glenn Lyvers, ENCHANTED - Love Poems and Abstract Art,
edited by Gabrielle de la Fair, and Intercontinental Anthology of Poetry on
Universal Peace and Love, edited by Madan Gandhi.
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