What generation are you from? and what do you think your generation has done for Family Values, Morality and Work Ethic?
Why do you think so many people born in the 70's and 80s have such an entitlement attitude, little faith, do not understand hard work and are so narcissistic?
2007-05-31 05:14:18 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't. I am Gen X. My parents taught me to work for what I wanted or I don't get it. The same their parents taught them. BUT Baby Boomers in general felt the need to give their kids "everything they didn't have" so they went a little overboard. Also you have a lot of duel income households now and they feel like they need to "make it up" to their kids.
2007-05-31 05:18:37 · answer #1 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You have your nerve considering that a "generation" would teach faith, morality, value and work ethic to the family. Sorry babe, that stuff is taught at home. And the products of each generation - let's see, immorality, war, man's inhumanity to man. I don't see that any one generation to date has done anything to abate that. I see it within an individual straightening his act out, but not because a generation - or anyone else for that matter - told him to.
Why do YOU think that "...so many the people born in the 70's and 80s have such an entitlement attitude, little faith, do not understand hard work and are so narcissistic?"
Gee whiz!!! Haven't you heard of Hitler, Stalin, Kublai Khan, Bush, George III, Prince John, Nero?
Wake up baby. The question isn't why.
The Question is: What are YOU doing about it?
Hmmmmm?????
2007-05-31 05:29:00 · answer #2 · answered by Lynne O'Dwyer 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I'm in the years that are considered a combination of the Baby Boomers and the beginning of Generation X.
Our generation brought us the idea that marriage has to be a two way street and if you are not getting your needs met in the marriage, then you should divorce the other person. Before this, we were taught to work through problems in a relationship because you were in it for a lifetime commitment.
If I had to blame one issue as to the entitlement attitude, little faith, not understanding hard work and being narcissistic, I'd blame the teachings on self-esteem instead of focusing on self-efficacy. The problem is that self-esteem focuses on how great a person is and how important they are, and if my needs are not met, then I am not happy and my happiness is ultimately important. Self-efficacy is the ability to resolve problems and to build the confidence to tackle any issue no matter how difficult. Our earlier generations focused on self-efficacy and it produced people who are problem solvers and are able to tackle any challenge they face.
2007-05-31 05:29:01 · answer #3 · answered by Searcher 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm 65. So many would sterotype me as being likely to be an RRR cultist at worst, or at least a "conservative" as the word is taken to mean these days. And boy, would THEY ever be wrong! About me, and huge numbers of others who are my age. I'm a fair-minded and sensible social liberal who doesn't hesitate to stand up for and defend personal liberties. Abortion is nothing but a hugely-beneficial REMEDY for an unwanted medical condition, and nothing more. Over any given recent 18-year-long period, it has enabled a billion (with a "B!") girls and women, worldwide, to put their lives back on track, and have all of their future opportunities and options restored instantly to PRE-ill-timed-pregnancy levels. RPEs (Reproductive Process Entities... gametes, zygotes, embryoes, and fetuses) aren't even ever defended in the Bible. The only time that a fetus is, is as **property** -- in a passage that condones slavery! (Ex. 21:20-25.)
Then there's same-sex marriage. Nothing could possibly be more harmless. There is NO way that any gay couple's marriage could harm the marriage of any opposite-sex couple. Making that "Defense of Marriage" crappola exactly that -- total and hateful crap generated by hateful, selfish, and ignorant people.
SO MUCH, then, for the two mainstays of so-called "Family Values." What a joke! Neither hate nor ignorance are family values. That also dispenses with the "morality" whinings of the RRR Cult.
This brings us to the work ethic issue. Now THERE is an **actual** problem, and would have no cause-and-effect relationship with any of the above. The work ethic of millions of those between age 14 and 35 needs a LOT of help!
As for "faith?" Well -- that is totally up to the individual, case by case, and not the business of buttinskies who have no lives beyond busybodyism.
2007-05-31 05:34:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I'm in my 20s. Only time will tell what my generation has added.
"Family values" is a code word for legislating morality. Each family has the right to define their own family and their own values. Keep your family values to yourself.
Morality - we live in a time of unrivaled equality and awareness of human rights. However, we have a long, long way to go and I hope my generation will be forward thinkers.
Don't lecture me about work ethic.
I have little "faith" in God because I have an education and a brain and I use both.
The Generation that has contributed most to the United States is the Civil rights generation. They had unparralleled work ethic and faith. It's one thing to risk your life in war, but imagine risking you and your family's lives in your own country, your own home. People are scared of terrorism? look at the domestic terrorism civil rights workers, black and white, faced in the 50s and 60s!
2007-05-31 05:31:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Who raised the parents of the generation who gave birth to those in the 70's, 80's. BTW, my brother was born in 1980. He's a very successful real estate person. The girl I grew up with was born in '73-she's got a major in biology research and her husband has a master's in occupational therapy (which is the opposite of feeling 'entitled'. I'm sure he appreciates what he has more than most)
There are several thousands of successful people in their 20's and 30's. I'd double check my references, if I were you.
2007-05-31 05:27:52 · answer #6 · answered by strpenta 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe you are falling into the 'good ole days' trap. Where everything seemed so great back in the previous generation but today it is falling apart. Pretty much every generation has felt the same way.
The thing is, we are more likely to remember the accomplishments of the previous generation than the failures. Twenty years from now, people will be talking about the innovation that was going on in the 90's like it was this amazing boom of technology and society and that these days everything is stagnant. The cycle never ends. It's human nature.
2007-05-31 05:18:36 · answer #7 · answered by The Bog Nug 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Times change, but human nature never changes. There is good and bad in every generation, and the older generations always put down the newer generations. Even I, at 34 years old, find myself talking down the current generation, saying. "I was never like that, I was a perfect child, I never did those things...blah blah blah-" And then reality hits me. Laura Ingalls Wilder actually wrote an essay about this subject in the early 1900's called 'When I was Your Age." You should read it if you can find it.
2007-05-31 05:24:20 · answer #8 · answered by Julia Sugarbaker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Why do you think so many people born in the 70's and 80s have such an entitlement attitude, little faith, do not understand hard work and are so narcissistic? "
my we're not being judgemental at all are we? :P
2007-05-31 05:17:23 · answer #9 · answered by nicky 3 · 6⤊ 1⤋
You must believe the conservative news media and pastors that only reports on the bad things in our society.
Work ethic...look at statistics...the average American is working more hours, taking less vacation and sick days than any time in history since the industrial revolution began.
Values and morality...assuming you are a fundie...look who we have as president...now I question his morals and values...but, he professes to be a born-again Christian..the American people, (or the electroal college at least) elected this man to office...who supposedly had high values and morals.
There are more churches today being built than any time in history...
We cannot separate church and state...our legislators are constantly legislating their morality into law.
And whose morals and values are you talking about anyway..the Baptists, Episcopalians, Catholics, Presbyterians, Buddhists, Muslims, Jehovah's Witnesses..they all have different morals and values...and fundamentalist Christians have different values than do more moderate Christians...(look at the role of women in leadership, etc...)
So, whose morals and values are you wanting to legislate? It is already being done on a daily basis.
Entitlement society...I totally agree with you...we have a bunch of fat, lazy people sitting on their butts all day, expecting the world to give them what they need, instead of working for it themselves..and we have enabled them...with welfare, early social security, rights to illegal immigrants, allowing so many to file bankruptcy, not pay back credit debt, people having more children than they can afford and expecting the taxpayers to support their children, etc...people do not seem to take personal responsbility for their own lives...and this is a product of the Johnson administration, starting in the 60's....initially the idea was good to provide temporary assistance for those to get back on their feet...but many, people have taken advantage of our kindness.
2007-05-31 05:26:08 · answer #10 · answered by G.C. 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋