Critical Thinking Blog #3

I hope this isn't considered late due to the prompt not being up until this morning.

Consider the current youth popular culture compared to those of the past. What movements do you have in your youth culture? How are you a part of your youth culture?

Thinking about my youth culture, I seem to draw a blank. I spend most of my days in my room, in my bubble studying all day. I feel like i'm not exactly part of anything. When in reality, I am part of the movements of women getting a collage education. The number of women who go to college almost out number men. As a teenager I was part of the typical generation X movement where I sat around all day, didn't work and partied and did drugs all the time. In those partying years it seemed like no one cared about anything or anyone. Drugs weren't scarey, they were fun and whatever happened, happened. My parents give me lots of freedom and didn't make me work for anything that I had. I was definitely part of the youth culture that did whatever they wanted and the attitude was all about me. Now that i'm older, I feel like i'm in the movement or part of society that any job you try to obtain requires years of experience and some college education. I had to go to school for a year to earn enough credits to become a preschool teacher. I busted my ass getting good grades in classes that taught you how to play with children. You might as well have parent training classes before you decide to become a parent. Also during my youth, I am stuck in a time where the country is not doing well financially. Luckily, neither of my parent's jobs have been effected by the economy and they are able to support me while I am going to school. Had that not be the case, I would not be able to attend school or get a decent paying job due to lack of a college degree. Along the same lines of growing up in the "me" generation, I have become very impatient and needy. I do not know how to wait for things, how to budget my money, and I feel extremely selfish. I think I am trying to balance that out by becoming a nurse. Either way, I feel like the movements I am part of are creating a monster of a person and I am not excited to see how people my age act 20 years from now.