Mengyan Zhang
Generations
In the article Millennials Set to Outnumber Baby Boomers, on NYTimes.com, Douglas Quemqua focuses on how to distinguish between the different generation. She compares the Millennial Generation and the Baby Boomer Generation. She thinks the generation can not be differentiated by year or age. After reading this article, I was amazed by the author’s opinions that everyone is equal however old you are.
I was surprised to realize that it is difficult to distinguish between the Millennial Generation and Baby Boomer Generation based only on dates. The number of the people in a generation is changing anytime, even the demographers also can not making sure the exact date of population. For example, Richard Fry wanted to define the youngest millennial for his study, but he found someone’ life ended, also someone else began. He can not get accurate result. And there are some people born between the Millennial Generation and Baby Boomer Generation, called Generation X. Some people feel confused, they do not know in which generation they belong. In my opinion, I agree with the author that people can not be distinguished by the year.
I was also impressed to realize the generation can not be separated by the different age. In the article, some older generation’s people think they are always better than the younger generation. They do not believe young people, and meanwhile demand more respect. If the young people can not get more chance to experience new things, then they also can not improve themselves. In fact, as the time passed, the old people retie, the young people will get more and more chance to work . People should be evaluated should by many different ways, not only by age, and people should be treated to the same standard. So I also agree with the author’ opinion, that whether you are young or old, it is not wise to use your own opinion to judge others anytime.
In conclusion, I am happy to learn in this article about the different generations. Although people like to use the year and age to separate many kinds of group in life, this is not always an accurate way to distinguish generations. We can not tie others by single thing, and also can not put the special tag to someone.
Generations
In the article Millennials Set to Outnumber Baby Boomers, on NYTimes.com, Douglas Quemqua focuses on how to distinguish between the different generation. She compares the Millennial Generation and the Baby Boomer Generation. She thinks the generation can not be differentiated by year or age. After reading this article, I was amazed by the author’s opinions that everyone is equal however old you are.
I was surprised to realize that it is difficult to distinguish between the Millennial Generation and Baby Boomer Generation based only on dates. The number of the people in a generation is changing anytime, even the demographers also can not making sure the exact date of population. For example, Richard Fry wanted to define the youngest millennial for his study, but he found someone’ life ended, also someone else began. He can not get accurate result. And there are some people born between the Millennial Generation and Baby Boomer Generation, called Generation X. Some people feel confused, they do not know in which generation they belong. In my opinion, I agree with the author that people can not be distinguished by the year.
I was also impressed to realize the generation can not be separated by the different age. In the article, some older generation’s people think they are always better than the younger generation. They do not believe young people, and meanwhile demand more respect. If the young people can not get more chance to experience new things, then they also can not improve themselves. In fact, as the time passed, the old people retie, the young people will get more and more chance to work . People should be evaluated should by many different ways, not only by age, and people should be treated to the same standard. So I also agree with the author’ opinion, that whether you are young or old, it is not wise to use your own opinion to judge others anytime.
In conclusion, I am happy to learn in this article about the different generations. Although people like to use the year and age to separate many kinds of group in life, this is not always an accurate way to distinguish generations. We can not tie others by single thing, and also can not put the special tag to someone.