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题目：
Every generation of people is different in important ways. How is your
generation different from your parents' generation? Use specific reasons and
examples to explain your answer.
范文：
Generational differences have always happened throughout history but some
differences have come more rapidly and widely in the modern era because in part
of technological and social changes. There are obvious differences between
generations with respects to such matters as musical tastes, fashion trends,
educational systems, cultures, lifestyles, politics and even attitudes toward
sexual activities. It is particularly interesting to compare our generation with
our parents' generation in subjects related to work and family.
Let's begin with the generation X as our generation, coming after the
generation "baby boomers." The mainstream Xers are mostly not as workaholic as
their parents when younger. The reduced number of working hours is just one
example. While the boomers are good team players and love the social interaction
at work, their offspring's are more skeptical, stressing personal merits instead
of antiquity. Unlike their previous generation, however, the younger generation
is more inclined to change jobs or have parallel careers, if only for financial
reasons. On the other hand, they demand more time for themselves, their families
and friends. Boomers are relatively more conservative in comparison with their
more liberal sons and daughters who are looking for more work-life balance.
Along with the reduced working time, the size of family has gradually been
reduced, one-child or two-child program becoming more common. It used to be
larger families among boomers. Our generation allows formal marriages and
co-habitations to exist side by side. An increasing percentage of divorces and
separations have appeared in our generation than in our parents' generation.
More young women work and parenting has become a problem of the family. Teen-age
pregnancy without a ring is no longer a scandal as was in our parents'
generation. Pre-marital sex was considered dirty when air and water were cleaner
in our parents' generation, and in the generations before them.
Our parents' generation, in particular, has a complaint to make. They say
when they were younger, there was no respect for youth. Now that they are old,
there is not respect for age. If this could be justified, what would become of
our children's generation. The millennial will have little patience. The new
reality in generational differences would certainly surprise our parents'
generation, let alone the generation before them, the era of "veterans".
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发表于 2016-7-10 15:24:24