Y Me
Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus is quoted, “Youth is above all a collection of possibilities.”
“When I was your age, I could already...” The sentence I often heard whenever my mother is about to lecture me. As time goes by, society changes. We don’t have to suffer from wars or poverty anymore in Macao. We live a rich materialistic lifestyle which distinguishes us the post-90 generation differently from the elder generations. How different are we? And how elder people perceive us the post-90s? I asked several people randomly on the streets, and found, (sort of expectedly) that most of them have negative impressions towards the post-90s. They refused formal interviews but were eager to give their opinions. The common points they made were encapsulated in the following opinion: the post-90s were “dependent, spoiled and a bit self-centered”. Mr. Pou, a 50-year-old clerk, said many post-90s were spoiled by their parents and became dependent due to the reason that most of them are the “only child” in the family. “Comparatively, the post-80s and earlier generations can learn to take responsibilities by taking care of their siblings.”
96 | bridges fall 2013