How to bridge the generation gap?
To find the answer, the first thing we should do is find out the causes of generation gap. On the one hand, young people today are exposed to an environment totally different from their parents’ or grandparents’. Rapid technological changes have made it almost impossible for any except the youth to adapt fast enough, they are obliged to learn more and more. By logging on to the Internet, they can see, hear, feel the newly emerging tendency. The influence of such kind of environment shapes the new generation’s characteristics, also changes their social values, which are hardly acceptable to the old. On the other hand, nowadays the young people are busily involved in various activities so that there isn’t much time left for interpersonal communication. What’s more, the youth have gradually replaced face-to-face talk with chatting on the net. In this situation, it is hard for the parents to touch their children. The barriers between generations do exist, yet, they are removable.
