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Study finds US generation gap largest since Vietnam War
Jun 30, 2009, 0:26 GMT
Los Angeles - A new study Monday identified what it says is the largest generation gap in the US since the era of the Vietnam War protests and the sexual revolution.
The survey by the Pew Research Center found that 79 per cent of people believe there is a major difference in the point of view of younger people and older people - the highest number since 1969, when 74 per cent saw a significant generation gap.
Almost 50 per cent of respondents said the biggest generational divide was over social values and morality. Respondents under the age of 29 said the biggest differences were found in views on family relationships and dating. For middle-aged respondents, it was in manners, while older people cited differences in a sense of entitlement.
There was also a wide gulf in attitudes to religion. Some 65 per cent of people aged 65 and older said religion is very important to them, compared with just over half of those 30 to 49 and 44 per cent of people 18 to 29.
In addition, among adults 65 and older, one-third said religion has grown more important to them over the course of their lives, while 4 percent said it has become less important and 60 percent said it has stayed the same. The report also found much greater tolerance among younger people for gay marriage and interracial relationships.
One of the biggest generational gaps was observed in the use of technology.
Just four in ten adults ages 65-74 use the internet on a daily basis, and that share dropped to just one-in-six among adults 75 and above. By contrast, three-quarters of adults aged 18-30 go online daily.
The generation gap is even wider when it comes to cell phones and text messages. Among adults 65 and older, just 5 per cent get most or all of their calls on a cell phone, and just 11 per cent sometimes use their cell phone to send or receive a text message. For adults under age 30, the comparable figures are 72 per cent and 87 per cent, respectively.
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is the empty space between SP4's ears.
...how f--king condescending can you get? I'm over 50 and I program CAN systems 24/7 for a living. Honestly, all this talk about technology, like it is the end-all of society, while 25% of high school age teens fail to graduate from a Fed Ed ciriculum that is equivelent to what was an eighth grade education when I was in school. Generation Gap...ya think?
'...how f--king condescending can you get? I'm over 50 and I program CAN systems 24/7 for a living. Honestly, all this talk about technology, like it is the end-all of society, while 25% of high school age teens fail to graduate from a Fed Ed ciriculum that is equivelent to what was an eighth grade education when I was in school. Generation Gap...ya think?'
Hey liar, you cannot even spell. Is it a lie that you can program anything except your subscription to Rush Limpbaugh's site? I guess a guy 'with two degrees' and whom makes over '$100,000 per year' has to lie to make himself feel good? By the way idiot (oops I mean liar) where did you get the quote '25% of high school age teens fail to graduate from a Fed Ed ciriculum that is equivelent to what was an eighth grade education when I was in school', can you give me a source or did you make this up also? Liar?
By the way stupid it is 'curriculum' not 'ciriculum' and it is 'equivalent' not 'equivelent'. That's why I think you made it up. A guy with two degrees would not misspell those two easy-learned in the 3rd grade words. What an idiot (oops I mean a liar).
Monkey boy, above, is the perfect embodiment of the current generation and what we failed at properly raising. He lauds himself as a terrific speller, but admit he relies on a machine to do it for him.
Wow...impressive. If only it could think, eh?
Then, in endless ignorance, he spews one insult after another, afraid to offer a single argument on any of the above topics. Now, monkey boy, run along and do your dilligence, find out that, among high school-age people in America almost 25% fail to receive a high school diploma, a telling fact given the already dumbed - down Fed Ed that has scores dropping for the last 40 years. Honestly, the number of people I run into that cannot perform the simplest of tasks is sobering. All this technology and it just keeps getting worse. I have an associate recording all of his lectures on tape because he says no one at the college reads anymore.
Run out, monkey boy, do the work of finding out about the dismal failure of the federal gov't's involvement over the last 40 years and then ask yourself why it is you are such a pussy as to offering one, single, cogent argument, as opposed to the endless insults.
My guess?
You're like most of the empty shirted libnazis, enthralled with your own image, but empty as to any real intellect. My spelling? Boo Hoo. At least I do not rely on a machine to correct my errors and then act as if it is my own skill correcting it.
No, monkey boy, you'll have to do way better than that. Personally, I doubt you have it in you, but my weakenss is believing in people. Now run along and focus that razor sharp intellect on yourself and let the grown- ups do the thinking. Thank god someone is.
You guess? Why not just make up a bunch of crap instead of guessing liar. So instead of defending what was said about you being a liar, you just rumble the same old crap as you cannot defend yourself as a liar. You are a liar....monkeyboy!
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???Jun 30th, 2009 - 16:16:27
A lot of older people I know are a lot more savy with computers, cell phones, etc., than this report indicates.
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