The youngsters who are now preparing their cars in the pit stop, are soon to be on pole-position: as a writer, scientist, CEO, artist or program maker. That is not merely a demographic fact; these young people simply refuse to be bound by the constraints of an established authority.
That puts several questions to the front: What are the moral anchors? How will those anchors influence the behaviour and decisions of the new generation and the ones that follow? How will they deal with a changing (global) order? Will they have a shared trademark? How different will this generation be in comparison to previous generations? Will the opinion makers examine the world differently? Will the writers put other questions forward?
Sunday evening, at 21 o’clock in Dom Omladine, there will be a general discussion about these questions with the generation of people born between 1970 and 1989. This general discussion is the result of the generation sessions that we organised with young people in Belgrade.
The generation sessions have been incredibly interesting so far. First, we found it striking to hear how much values as equility, freedom and diversity mean for this group of young people from Belgrade. This differs the samen generation in the Netherlands, where these ideals have become anchored in their mental programming that they do not name them explicitly during similar sessions in the Netherlands, more.
Secondly, another interesting point is the dominating role of recent history, especially the war in the former Yugoslavia. This might not surprise you much, still we underestimated the wars as moral anchor points of these Belgradian younsters.
Come to Dom Omladine Sunday evening for more moral anchor points for the generation 70/80!
Posted by David Glas
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December 2, 2008 at 12:01 pm
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