2018年6月大学英语六级听力常考时文：The New Generation in Japan
1.According to the 1993 survey, how many Korean students considered work asa primary value? ...
2.What kind of job do most Japanese aged 18 to 24 prefer? Those jobs
without ...
3.What is the diminishing social responsibility related to? The growing
interest in pleasure and ...
Japan’s post-World War II value system of diligence, cooperation, and hard
work is changing. Recent surveys show that Japanese youth have become a “Me
Generation” that rejects traditional values.Japanese students seem to be losing
patience with work, unlike their counterparts in the United States and Korea. In
a survey of college students in the three countries, only 10% of the Japanese
regarded work as a primary value, compared with 47% of their Korean counterparts
and 27% of American students. A greater proportion of Japanese aged 18 to 24
also preferred easy jobs without heavy responsibility.Concern for family values
is waning among younger Japanese as they pursue an inner world of private
satisfaction. Data collected by the Japanese government shows that only 23% of
Japanese youth are thinking about supporting their aged parents, in contrast to
63% of young Americans. It appears that many younger-generation Japanese are
losing both respect for their parents and a sense of responsibility to the
family. Diminishing social responsibility, according to Yoshizaki, is tied to
the growing interest in pleasure and personal satisfaction. A study comparing
society-conscious youth from 1977 to 1990 found that the Japanese had slipped
far behind American and Australian students. Only 11% of Japanese aged 18 to 24
said they get personal satisfaction in doing something on behalf of society,
according to 1993 the data from the Japanese government, while four limes as
many Americans said so. Now that the entire value system of Japanese youth is
undergoing major transformation, but the younger generation has not yet found a
new organized value system to replace the old.
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