Chinese and American Young Generation Confront a Same World

by Yubao

 

　 The world Chinese young generation faced is different from American’s? It is a little complicated to answer this question. I think there is no great difference there and on the contrary there is a tendency of convergence such as re-education trend, career desperation and reality unintelligent.

 

　 Like most college graduate come back to school in the United States, Chinese graduates are coming with the same tide. While some of the college graduates just continued to pursuit a Ph. D degree. Maybe the young generation of America has more working experience, for they start work earlier and changing work more frequently. But we can see a tide of returning to Graduate school after the Financial Crisis. Unlike Roger Bacon said at three hundred yours ago, “scientia potentia est (Knowledge is power)”, the line between power and knowledge is becoming more and more indistinct. Ph. D is no more a guarantee to a decent job.

 

　 Many young men do not have a clear expectation of their career development. You can find the same thing in America. As many Scenes in the film “Sex and the City”, “Green’s Anatomy” and “Gossip Girl”, are considered as a reflection of job seeking, city living in USA. Interestingly you can discover the counterpart in Chinese films, like “Du Lala’s promotion”, “Hard Working”. They present snapshots of harsh reality the Chinese young generation faced.

 

　 More and more people lost a solid cognition to the realty and honesty sprits to themselves. Two decade years ago, young people would read classic literature, care about the democracy, pay attention to social issues, but all these things are just kept in middle age’s memory and faint away in the 21 century. Now we just read bills and only care about money and pleasure. It is a hard thing to inspect and comfort the inside of our own. So we easily surrender to the fancy world without a thinking and cheaply traffic ourselves in the labor market. Many intellectuals think this is the root of all evil in the world.

 

　 We confront a flat world and it makes people lost destination, struggling for survival in the Postmodernism time. It is reliable to meet someone in the other side of the Earth, but we are tightly confined in a network knitted by commodities and markets. Sooner or later, the old cliché, “the vast pacific and social ideologies are the boundaries between China and United states”, will be replaced by a new topic as rising young generation in the same Arena.

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