Talking about Generations

By Manuela Mesquita “Guysssss can you pay attention please?!”” This is the request, verging on begging, which is so typical of a High School teacher. Capturing the attention of young people has never been easy, not even when the world was slow, and there was no technology to dream along with. If it wasn’t simple [...]

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By Tatiana Kielberman Sometimes we assume that everybody knows the basic terminology which classifies generations, and we forget that there are many people who have trouble understanding the classifications and characteristics of each one. In a chat with my older brother, I realized that I know more about this theme than he does. He’s a [...]

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By Flávia Vianna Once upon a time there was a little girl named @littleredridinghood. Little red riding hood’s mother walked by her daughter’s bedroom and warned: Honey, your grandmother is sick. Let’s go visit her? So @littleredridinghood sadly glanced at the chaos of her flickering AIM, MSN, and twitter messages. She didn’t respond to her [...]

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By Eline Kullock I just read an article on Folha On Line in which an actress, wearing a short dress (not even that short in the eyes of a baby boomer,) went to various prestigious Brazilian Universities (including the Law School at USP, FMU at University Ibriapuera, and PUC).  The actress, pretending to be a [...]

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By Eline Kullock In my day (and yeah, this was during the time of dinosaurs), people were really careful when talking about other people. Talking badly about someone, could hurt someone. There’s a saying in Portuguese that says: “Loose words blowing in the wind, can never be taken back.” After all, words are like nails [...]

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By Rudney Pereira Junior Sometimes I feel like the “lost link” caught in the middle of generations. Like a fossil, stuck between the monkey and the human being. Archeologists searching for me in the heat of African deserts. If you’re into definitions, I belong to generation X. But I feel as though I’m part of [...]

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By Manuela Mesquita Have you heard of the Gen Y that doesn’t understand or know the meaning of processes? They are used to getting everything now. They like things to be easy and quickly resolved. You probably have. That’s where I’d like to start this post. A few weeks ago, I had a very unique [...]

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By Manuela Mesquita There’s a lack of ethics in the world currently, especially in regards to young people, who haven’t been raised to talk about ethics in the family or in school.  This is the opinion of Yves de La Taille, a psychologist specializing in moral development.  He is also a Professor at the Institute [...]

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By Manuela Mesquita Parents are not teaching their children to be citizens with an attitude.  This is the opinion of Dr. Içami Tiba, psychiatrist for whom, “There isn’t an ideal model for raising children.” The author of 27 publications, the majority focusing on young people, Tiba believes that parents are responsible for the unstable and [...]

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By Mauro Segura I asked a group of teenagers to estimate how many friends they talk to everyday via the Internet, cell phone, or texting. Most of them replied “several dozens.” Text messaging, Facebook messages, blog comments, tweets etc…Everything from a simple “hello” to a long conversation counts as talking. Their responses confirm what most [...]

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