Harris, Malcolm. “Behavior Modification.” Kids These Days: Human Capital and The Making of Millennials, Little, Brown and Company, New York City, NY, 2017, pp. 164–198.
This book analyzes how the economy has impacted the Millennial generation, and the significance of this specific generation being the first to experience one of the biggest shifts in the United States economy. Harris, a freelance writer and editor of the New Inquiry as well as a Wall Street occupier, brings in the perspective of how the stereotypes of the Millennial generation are broken with the statistics and accomplishments his generation has achieved as they were the first generation to be born and go through the economic shift of high speed productivity. With promoting the idea of shifting the approach to generational differences towards confronting socio-cultural repercussions that impact the environment a generation grows into, Harris does a phenomenal data analysis, behavior adaptation, and the socio-cultural issues that have derived With this, I will analyze how generations are differentiable by the environments they grow in and how that inevitably seeps into the evolution of future generations.
Pan, Deanna. “For Asian Americans, heart-to-heart talks can bridge generation gap”. The Boston Globe, July 6, 2021 Tuesday. advance.lexis.com/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:6330-MKN1-DYHJ-301S-00000-00&context=1516831. Accessed April 11, 2022.
This article talks about recent heart-to-heart conversations young adults from Generation Z have been having with their parents with the recent global events that has given them the space to talk about racism and cultural identity, topics that have been hard to talk about before the COVID-19 pandemic. Reporting features and enterprise pieces for The Boston Globe, Pan gives insight from different members of second-generation Asian-Americans, before the pandemic and the grudges that have tended to surface as miscommunication and different expectations between the young adults and their parents. Through connecting the similar struggles the second-generation Asian-Americans were experiencing together and different realizations the younger generations were having about their parents, Pan emphasizes the importance of how these specific young adults shifted their approach to become more understanding of where their parents are coming from. With this claim, it will fuel my stance on the importance of learning more of where generational trauma can come from, especially in Asian-American families.
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Sonya, based on these annotations, I’m thinking that you want to look at fictional and real-life accounts of generational trauma side by side. Is that right? To do so would be ambitious, but absolutely possible.
The intersection between “second-generation” (where the ages of these groups will differ depending on emigration histories) and “Generation ____” (pick the label of choice) is something I just want to call your attention to for now. In other words, as you know, every 2nd generation immigrant has a shared 2nd generation identity as well as what I’ll call a “Pew generational identity.”
Does this intersection seem likely to be a part of your project?
PS–Nice clean looking page!