(Of course we all declared to be the after-ninety generation: We all joined the department after 1990.)
During the discussion, WH cited the opinion of Lui Tai Lok (呂大樂), described in his book The Four Generations of Hong Kong People (四代香港人):
- Born before 1945: This is a group of people who got through the war. The economy was rapidly expanding and they could be successful by hard work.
- Born between 1946 and 1965: This is the group from the baby boom. The economy continued to expand and the society became more stable. They could be reasonably successful with a good education.
- Born between 1966 and1975: The economy began to flat out (by the time they grow up); social resource and senior positions are mostly occupied by people from the first two generations. Most of them could just stay in the middle position.
- Born between 1976 and 1990: The economy is stagnant. With an improving life-span, there seems no chance that the old people would step down from their senior position. No wonder many of them feel hopeless and eager to try social rebellion.
PS. Vivian reminded me that the after-eighty generation is actually a term used in mainland China to refer to those who were born after the year 1980 - when the one-child policy was enforced.
We could understand the rest.
4 comments:
I am in the fourth generation! Let me share my mentor's teaching abouth this later this week.
I am interested to know also, Vincent! Life is getting much harder for most of us and very likely our next generation. Hope we you can share your views with me sometime.
Wency
It's true, it all follows the sigmoid curve. Now we are at the plateau phase.
While I agree with most of what this book said, it could not account for all the phenomenon observed in the 4th generation. You may get more complementary insights from 沈旭暉....
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