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Why, in your opinion, did Jean Twenge not include religion in her topics? How did the lack of religion affect the book? If you had included a section on religion, how would you have addressed the topic in terms of Generation Me? What might you have talked about?
Why, in your opinion, did Jean Twenge not include religion in her topics? How did the lack of religion affect the book? If you had included a section on religion, how would you have addressed the topic in terms of Generation Me? What might you have talked about?
Jean Twenge’s book “Generation Me” did not include religion. From my interpretation of the book, she did this for a good reason. If she had included religion in the book, it would have been completely opposed the point she was making the entire time. The whole time in the book she was making the point about how our generation has too high of goals than we can reach and in reality, almost none of us will reach any of our goals.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many types of religions in the world, with so many different beliefs, but they all have one thing in common: Faith. You have to have faith in yourself and the God (or gods) you believe in. If you want to be an astronaut, you have to have faith you can make it through all the schooling, training, and other specialized things astronauts have to do to become one of the elite few. But if you have faith in yourself you can do anything. If you are religious and have faith in Your Almighty, you would have faith that what you want to be and to happen with your life will happen.
According to Dr. Twenge, our generation is too self centered and too individualistic to accomplish any of our goals. Is that correct? Personally I don’t think so. I believe things are meant to happen because that’s the way God wants them to. Some people think everything is a coincidence, which is totally fine, everyone is entitled to their belief, there just isn’t a lot of faith in a higher power. So if Dr. Twenge really had added religion to her book, she would have had to contradict herself. She couldn’t have said it’s every man for himself in this generation and none of their dreams will come true, because if you have faith, then you don’t think about the things that might not happen, you think of the things that hopefully will. Dr. Twenge has no faith in our generation. Honestly, it sounded to me she thought our generation is a bunch of screw ups that she’ll have to deal with. But hey, I guess that’s her problem.
Taking religion out of the picture was a way to say this generation has to think for themselves and decide for themselves, which is exactly the point she makes throughout the book. So not adding religion into her book really emphasized her point and made it seem legitimate.