David Mindich, author of Tuned Out: Why Americans under 40 Don’t Follow the News, interviewed 18-to-24-year-olds in 2002. He found that 60% could not name a single Supreme Court justice, 48% did not know what Roe vs Wade was, and 62% could not name any of the three countries Bush had identified as the ‘Axis of Evil’”.
This article was published in the Boston Globe, in 2007, but is still relevant and worth reading. It shows the difference of what has become important to Generation Me, then what drives the previous generations. When I read the article I started thinking of people like Bill Gates, Albert Einstein, Madam Curie, Thomas Edison and other individuals who had the chutzpah and self confidence to keep moving forward………. Read the article and I’d like to see your comments.
Generation Me
The crop of talented recent graduates coming into today’s workforce is widely seen as narcissistic and entitled. And those are their best qualities.
By Jake Halpern| September 30, 2007
Nicole Mirabile, who is just 15 years old, has a clear vision of her future, and it doesn’t involve a boss. The prospect of working at a Fortune 500 company – and landing the sort of well-paying job that Americans once regarded as the benchmark of success – holds zero allure for her. “It would be hard compromising with a lot of different people whom I might clash with,” she speculates. Mirabile, a sophomore at North Quincy High School, would be far happier running her own company. “I have the time, I have the brains, I have the patience to do it, and I am not going to give up if I fail once,” she vows. (more…)
