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Q: What has the post-80 generation become?
They were supposed to be the pioneers of the modern post-reformed China, born in wealth and civilization while. Many are getting into their thirties now, did they really live up to the expectations? What does the typical city post-80-er look like to you?
i guess Pre-Americans..
they love to copy the US in every thing. buildings, life style fashion...
Most of the post-80 people I met here
* Like the older generations, they don't know much about the outside world, and have a generally very limited knowledge of anything. University undergraduate sayings things "Ho, so in Italy, people don't speaking English ?! There is such a thing as Italian language ?!!!". In general, a cultural desert.
* They inherited a lot of the social behaviours of their elders born in the 60's, 70's (ie. not giving a damn about the rules), but they tend to be slightly more civil on average, by Chinese standard.
* Unlike their elders, they are not very good at living frugally, and they are not willing to work super hard to improve their lives. Far less tough.
* Their life aspirations don't go very farther than "have kids, have the fashion gadgets" and maybe travelling a bit where it is fashionable to travel.
* They are not sportive *AT ALL*
* No conscience of being a society. They see themselves as just individuals under one nation, which is a very different thing.
DrMonkey:
My wife is viewed as a weirdo, because she have "unusual" aspirations, such as traveling on her own, doing poverty relief work, and learning things all her life. Damn, she enjoy dreaming, even if she's an adult !!!
RiriRiri:
Interesting as always. Especially in the light of how this generation was depicted in the 00 era (energetic, independent, free thinking, hedonist, etc).
Truly I think they ended up just being their elders 2.0. What's your take on the post-90s?
DrMonkey:
Post 90's people, I know just very few of them and only superficially. They have a slightly improved education system, but those improvements do far too little to address the deep, systemic problems, and it's out of range from the 50% lower median income.
Let's play the prediction game : they will have lots of elders to support, and they will enter the job market when the Chinese economy will be stagnating, Japan-style. Boy, they will be angry, the punch bowl is empty... A bit more educated, they might reason rationally about why the punch bowl is empty. Being individualist to the extreme (it's the society they live in since birth), they won't form a coherent block, it will be a lot of haphazard movements to try to change things, asking the good questions but not providing rational answers.
iWolf:
Mr DrMonkey,
I'm afraid that I may have some shocking news. From the description of your wife, I am now worried that we may have inadvertently married the same woman.
For clarification, is she asian/chinese, about 168cm, around 48kg, black hair, brown eyes? Please tell me that I am wrong........
Scandinavian:
by the way. Monkey, I completely agree with your assessment. Good job writing that without using the words "spoiled brats".
The 90ies generation, my scarce encounters with these. Completely blank slates, ambitions even lower, "what do you want to study?" the answer starts with "my dad works in a ...."
Morally bankrupt, greedy and obsessed with looking better than others.
Much the same as any generation of Chinese I would have thought, but with iphones.
The people of the post 80s generation I work with are fine. Outward looking, smart and mostly world wise.
Sure they want a nice phone, but they save up and buy for it. Same as me. A few have cars, but not many.
The dote on their kid(or kids), and want to spend as much time with them as they can. The men, and most of the women, wear the same clothes to work every day, they are as honest as anyone you could hope to meet.
They have a tough life. Baby in the hometown, separated from their wives for months at a time, with the added traditional pressures from their parents.
Yup. I think they are fine. Not much different from any other country really.
No idea about men, I never talk to men in China except for business purposes, I can talk about post-80 women as many ended up in my bed.
Give them another 25 years and we'll see what changes they can bring about. Their children will ask them relevant questions before these kids' innocence will be destroyed and information will be readily available more and more despite the government blocking the internet, so when the 80's generation starts ruling China they can show what they're worth.
An interesting thing about the post-80'ies is that, they don't have parents who tried life in China before 1949, so there will be even less reflection on how things could be different.
I find them extremely selfish, nuf said.
