Youth / Adult Partnerships and Growing Communities |
Thursday May 15 2008
By Zakia Carpenter | Unending Conversations of Hope blog
This article appeared in the April 20-26, 2008 issue of the Michigan Citizen and is reproduced here with the author's permission. Please post your comments here.
I have noticed a breakdown in youth-adult functionality that I'm just beginning to articulate. From what I have read about the Millennial Generation (youth, like me, born between 1977 and 1998), experts predict it will be more separate from previous generations due to the technological divide. However, this is just one factor dividing us. Every generation has ideas and values differentiating it from prior generations. Our histories shape us differently. Essentially we are our own entity, separate from those who gave birth to us.
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Written by eldering at The Great Turning
Tagged with: dialogue differences generation intergenerational_relationships leadership support transformation
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