Activism

Spainer brings to the table what most adults feel about students and children these days. Spainer, along with myself, agree that young adults and teens are very focused on their surroundings in their individual lives and not necessarily taking in and understanding the entire world around them like in the times of the Vietnam War. It is interesting to think that our generation is more focused on the popular culture stature rather than the world as a whole and its' problems. There are many reasons why people's views would change from being concerned about the world to what might be interesting in the United State. Often times, the news can be VERY depressing. Having all these sad stories and hearing of death and despair, it makes people want to turn their heads to the whole ordeal.
Allison Fine's article demonstrated our generation is a, "quiet" one. She says that we do not protest like we used to like on college campuses. This isn't necessarily true in the fact that we are a very technologically savvy generation. We have different means of expressing ourselves than before; we make Facebook groups, join clubs, and start events that raise awareness. We no longer use riots and or large arguments because our generation feels that is ineffective. These new ways of expressing our views is hard to see by older generations because maybe they don’t understand the concept of the internet and wouldn’t know how to go about finding our Facebook groups or such. We are very loud and active in our community and it just takes some looking into from different generations to find our views on matter.
We are not a quiet generations. We express ourselves differently than previous ones. We are very active in our community by means of internet and smaller groups. We aren't as focused in one on world issues, but then again, is that a bad thing?