Generation Y Reading Response

     In these two articles, "The Why-Worry Generation" and "Generation Me", both writers discuss how "Generation Y", which happens to be my generation, are a bunch of narcissists who think to high of them selves and are to confident. This is stereotyping 101, just because a couple people here and a couple people there thing highly of themselves, and believe that they are number one on the society food chain, or because some one has really high standards of what they want to do with there life, does not make our generation narcissistic. The fact that people can stereotype our entire generation as narcissists is ridiculous. But in "The Why-Worry Generation" I like the point they make near the end about how our generation's ability to stay positive, even though our elders are losing their jobs or drowning in debt, is whats keeping our generation alive.
     Some hot spots in these articles, or things that stick out to me, would be how blunt they are or how quick they are to call us narcissists or spoiled brats. An example in "They Why-Worry Generation" article about how blunt the writers are could be found in the first paragraph when he calls us "entitled whiners" or writes how other people think we're "entitled whiners", but even better is the rest of this quote," Spoiled by parents who over stoked their self-esteem..... trophies on any player who showed up." In the "Generation Me" article Raina Kelley writes "Gorged on a diet of grade inflation, constant praise and materialistic entitlement, I probably would have succumbed to a life of heedless self-indulgence." To be honest I think these writers are jealous. Jealous of how success full our generation is going to be. They see the technology we're going to event, the diseases we're going to cure, the wars we're going to end, and natural disasters we're going to prevent, and instead of pushing us forward and motivating us to keep going and achieving greater things, they chose to sit back and call us spoiled brats? why? because we're success full. That is one of the most ignorant claims I have ever heard.
     I disagree with these articles for the most part, about how they talk about our society and generation so negatively. But I do like in "The Why-Worry Generation" how he actually turns what he says around in the end of his article about how that over confidence our generation has might actually play out in our favor, it's whats keeping our heads up in these bad times.