Generation Gap
GENERATION GAP
AGAINST
NOWADAYS THE older people and the younger population complain of generation gap and of breaking down the communication between these twos. But who is to blame? I think both go amiss now and then. There is a great hue and cry raised by the elders and the young both that the communication between them has broken down and they accuse each other for and bemoan this state of affairs. They attribute it to generation gap. Majority in the society carries along with this moroseness and never pauses to think the why and how of the problem. The elders are more critical of the younger generation with a big inventory of complaints against the young and the young mostly tend to ignore the grumbling, mumbling and occasional loud protestations of the older generation. But now and then they do protest. They resent the petting attitude of the elders. The generation gap, however, is a deeper malady than viewed superficially. There may be the following differences between the old and the young: • Of ideas on general conduct comprising dress, food habits etc.
• Morality, marriage & career
• Of tastes on art, music, literature, and in short total outlook.
• Family unit breaking up and gradually losing the importance it once had. The central authority of the paternal figure becoming redundant.
• Imposition of the self-righteous attitude of the older generation on the young.
• Biological evolutionary difference It is generally observed that the old behave like a frog in the well. They are fully convinced that the ideas they have had throughout their lives are the ultimate and ideal. They ignore certain vital factors that are no longer valid in the case of the modernity. There always has been generation gap since the dawn of civilization. The young have always deviated from the older standards and it was well that they did or there wouldn’t have been any progress today. I was once travelling by train. I noticed a gentleman in
AGAINST
NOWADAYS THE older people and the younger population complain of generation gap and of breaking down the communication between these twos. But who is to blame? I think both go amiss now and then. There is a great hue and cry raised by the elders and the young both that the communication between them has broken down and they accuse each other for and bemoan this state of affairs. They attribute it to generation gap. Majority in the society carries along with this moroseness and never pauses to think the why and how of the problem. The elders are more critical of the younger generation with a big inventory of complaints against the young and the young mostly tend to ignore the grumbling, mumbling and occasional loud protestations of the older generation. But now and then they do protest. They resent the petting attitude of the elders. The generation gap, however, is a deeper malady than viewed superficially. There may be the following differences between the old and the young: • Of ideas on general conduct comprising dress, food habits etc.
• Morality, marriage & career
• Of tastes on art, music, literature, and in short total outlook.
• Family unit breaking up and gradually losing the importance it once had. The central authority of the paternal figure becoming redundant.
• Imposition of the self-righteous attitude of the older generation on the young.
• Biological evolutionary difference It is generally observed that the old behave like a frog in the well. They are fully convinced that the ideas they have had throughout their lives are the ultimate and ideal. They ignore certain vital factors that are no longer valid in the case of the modernity. There always has been generation gap since the dawn of civilization. The young have always deviated from the older standards and it was well that they did or there wouldn’t have been any progress today. I was once travelling by train. I noticed a gentleman in