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• A comment on Conversation: What would be the objective if all were equally productive?

  Mar 15 2013: People would be able to express their intelligence, creativity and love.
  Keegan, I'd like to get the questions to you for my book on how global youth are transforming our future. Can you email me
  gkimball at csuchico.edu? Many thanks.

• A reply on Conversation: How are teens today different from their parents' generation? How will they change the way we do things?

  Mar 5 2013: Read what?

• A reply on Conversation: How are teens today different from their parents' generation? How will they change the way we do things?

  Mar 5 2013: Terrific to hear from a teen! Do you mind saying how old? I'll quote you in my book about how global youth will change our future, so I'd like to learn more about you and your friends' "thirsts for change." What specifically? What would you like to study in college? About what percent of young people you know are in fact globally aware and activist and what percent are apathetic or caught up in materialism? Thanks so much for speaking up for teens, gayle

• A reply on Conversation: How are teens today different from their parents' generation? How will they change the way we do things?

  Mar 4 2013: As a global generation, they're more healthy and more educated. Yes, obesity and unemployment are big problems. I think we need to hear from someone in the generation we're discussing. Thanks.

• A comment on Conversation: How are teens today different from their parents' generation? How will they change the way we do things?

  Feb 10 2013: Teens I've interviewed would agree with you. Note that teen pregnancies have declined, not increased in the US. Could you say a bit about your experience with teens?
  This discussion needs the voice of youth.

• A reply on Conversation: How are teens today different from their parents' generation? How will they change the way we do things?

  Feb 10 2013: Dear Mr. Long,
  Thanks. How do I email a chapter to you?
  Again, teens don't agree. They see marked differences between their parents' generation and their own, especially in developing countries. I just read over 100 replies to the book question and they mostly agree with the quote below.

• A comment on Conversation: How are teens today different from their parents' generation? How will they change the way we do things?

  Feb 7 2013: Teens in Japan and France are least optimistic according to many studies, so it's the culture as well as being young.

• A comment on Conversation: How are teens today different from their parents' generation? How will they change the way we do things?

  Feb 7 2013: Young people tend to think they're different, more technologically advanced, more globally aware. Here's a quote from a girl, 15, in India, comparing her generation and her parents'.
  
  We are inferior in showing respect and concern for the society, but I think we are better than them technology-wise. They are trying to get used to an all fast generation.
  
  Also, many studies show global youth are optimistic despite high youth unemployment.

• A comment on Conversation: Global Youth Dichotomies and Contradictions: What are your Observations?

  Aug 30 2012: Interesting. When did you start to see a change with more helicopter parents over-protecting their kids?

• A reply on Conversation: Global Youth Dichotomies and Contradictions: What are your Observations?

  Aug 30 2012: About #2, there are many books blaming youth: The negative slant comes from Professor Jean Twinge (Generation Me and The Narcissism Epidemic), Professor Mark Bauerlein (The Dumbest Generation), and Christian Smith et al. (Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood). For example, the authors of Lost in Transition paint a picture of young adults as moral relativists who focus on consuming rather than doing good, are politically apathetic, and drink too much alcohol followed by casual “hooking up.” Author Mike Males list the myths about violent, drugged, morally challenged US youth, and defends the reality of good youth behavior. He blames the myths on adult bad behavior. He ascribes adult fear as partially due to the increasingly multi-racial and less affluent youth. Males maintains that, “The rapidly deteriorating behavior of American grownups (particularly aging Baby Boomers) in both personal and social realms has led to a crisis of adulthood in which youth is the target of displaced fury.” Don Tapscott also believes that the reason for the harsh and nasty criticism of youth is a generation gap with the individualistic and self-centered Baby Boomers. They are afraid of change that youth bring with their use of electronic media and ability to collaborate. Therefore they criticize youth for being “dull, celebrity-obsessed, net-addicted, shopaholic exhibitionists.”