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Funny I thought that was your reference to expecting something to be left for you. What was it? Oh yeah; "they are the first generation that left the next generation less than what they received."

Sent to China? A communist nation opened by that great "Boomer" Richard Nixon? Sucked it dry? Apparently not considering the proliferation of young entrepreneurs I see daily. Maybe in retrospect it isn't the entire generation who believes their success or failure is the fault of what someone did or didn't leave behind for them. 

We were left the same as any generation is left - opportunity. I have no expectations for anything, especially Social Security.

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

I provided two links. Here is another
http://www.answers.com/topic/generation-x

So now I have provided three sources to compare to something you "heard" somewhere and you cannot remember your source. Ok, I was taught that if I was going to assert someone else was wrong about something, I should back that up.. not expect that they defend their facts against my own faulty memory... whatever works for you though.

(hint: it really is ok to say "ooppps, I was mistaken, my bad, the sky will not fall and no one will think badly of you for it)

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ORIGINAL: petitesoumise

I think part of the reason my generation is "narcissitic and self centered" is because all our lives we have been told by older generations that "YOU are the future" and "YOU can be anything YOU want to be."
In someways it's ingrained, imo.

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ORIGINAL: petitesoumise

I think part of the reason my generation is "narcissitic and self centered" is because all our lives we have been told by older generations that "YOU are the future" and "YOU can be anything YOU want to be."
In someways it's ingrained, imo.

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ORIGINAL: Emperor1956

College students think they're so special
Study finds alarming rise in narcissism, self-centeredness in ‘Generation Me’
AP report:
NEW YORK - Today’s college students are more narcissistic and self-centered than their predecessors, according to a comprehensive new study by five psychologists who worry that the trend could be harmful to personal relationships and American society...

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Alternate Headline 1:   "Tell me something I didn't know, grumbles father of teenager"

Alternate Headline 2:  "So that's why none of the 20 year old hotties on here will talk to me" grumbles 50 year old father of teenager.

Alternate Headline 3:  "Damn kids.  I'm SUPPOSED TO BE THE "ME" Generation.  ME ME ME"  grumbles displaced 50 year old.

etc.

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

The Baby Boomer Generation has had their way mostly. Their shadow is rather long, and they are the first generation that left the next generation less than what they received.

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ORIGINAL: xBullx
Where the hell is Caitlyn? This topic is right up her ally.

I'm much quieter offline than on this board, to be sure ... but when I interact, I at least want to have something to say. Most of the time, older folks that don't agree with whatever I'm saying, will play the age and disrespect card. I rarely know how to respond. I can only conclude that it's a damn fucking fine attack, because it usually does the STFU on me. I'm filing it away for when I'm 40'ish (assuming I make it) ... so I can use it on some young college puke. All comes out in the wash, you know.

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ORIGINAL: Dtesmoac

There no more me, me,me, me than we were it's perhaps just they are a little more honest about it. Look at the divorce rates and single parent families and then ask the question are those choices about selflessness or selfishness?

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

I am not a selfless person. You don't have to be but if you go without so that you can spend time with your children and / or provide them with a better start in life then you are less selfish.

You know a couple of generations ago kids were born as hired hands and kinda raised themselves up, I think the concept that we should be selfless for our children is the problem.. people should not be selfless, they never were. Perhaps for many and not for some. To be less selfish and less self centered seems to me to be a good objective. If someone only thinks of themselves and whats in it for them then it is unlikely they will provide for all of the needs of their children.

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ORIGINAL: Dtesmoac

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ORIGINAL: juliaoceania

I am not a selfless person. You don't have to be but if you go without so that you can spend time with your children and / or provide them with a better start in life then you are less selfish.

You know a couple of generations ago kids were born as hired hands and kinda raised themselves up, I think the concept that we should be selfless for our children is the problem.. people should not be selfless, they never were. Perhaps for many and not for some. To be less selfish and less self centered seems to me to be a good objective. If someone only thinks of themselves and whats in it for them then it is unlikely they will provide for all of the needs of their children.