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Is Generation Gap a Myth?
In my opinion, young people are very much different now from what they used to be twenty or thirty years ago. I understand that each generation brings some innovations in their own lifestyles. New things become fashionable. Young people have new role models. That's true. Yet I tend to think that teenagers basically were more or less the same in the 20th century though they had more respect for people who are older, they tried to communicate more with each other, with their parents and grandparents too. Today these factors of our life seem to be insignificant to teenagers.
In my view, young people have also become rather careless. Listen to the language they speak. Sometimes you can't understand what they are talking about. They use too many shortened words, slang and rude words. When we were young, we didn't dare to use such language in public. I know that many people will remember the so−called “generation gap”, which is a myth, to my mind. I think that parents and teachers should explain to teens what must and mustn't be done. Too much freedom is no good thing.
Young people of nowadays have much freedom. They create their own style in clothes, music, books. Unfortunately, few of them read books. They watch a lot of trash on TV and are always busy with their computers and smart phones. Something should be done to change the situation.
1. The narrator is older than the young people he or she writes about.
2. The narrator says that the teenagers of the 20th century were better than those of the 21st century.
3. The narrator doesn't approve of the language modern young people use.
4, The narrator writes that nowadays young people are not as sociable as they used to be.
5. The narrator thinks that the so−called “generation gap” exists.
6. The narrator is not satisfied with the young people's lifestyle in the 21st century.