tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506060093946686346.post6128454257055120041..comments2009-01-10T15:40:44.865-05:00Elliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07384430934881752883epbehling@gmail.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506060093946686346.post-22204607101710060232009-01-10T15:40:00.000-05:002009-01-10T15:40:00.000-05:00Hi Roberta-<BR/><BR/>Thanks so much for the comment and insight, and I'm also glad I found your blog.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for pointing out that the unwillingness to settle is a theme from before. Maybe that's why my parents always seem proud of me! Overall, as the world has gotten smaller, each generation has had more opportunity to explore it than the last generation. I certainly hope by the time my kids are in college that international travel will be a requirement!<BR/><BR/>I agree that our generations are alike in many fundamental ways. Yet I also think there are many differences, because of the time period Gen Y was brought up in and the interesting generation that raised us;) It's kind of comforting to me, though, that at a basic level we are still very much like the young people before us, with the same passion for life that our parents had!Elliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07384430934881752883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-506060093946686346.post-63278413918730306122009-01-09T15:58:00.000-05:002009-01-09T15:58:00.000-05:00I found your post very intriguing, particularly this part, "More young people are taking up opportunities our parents might not have had to do things such as explore the world. Grad school and trips abroad look more and more appetizing to a generation that doesn't want to settle."<BR/><BR/>This posting could have been written by me 25 years ago as the opportunities you suggest that were not so readily available to your parents sounds like I would have said about my parents (probably your grandparents.)<BR/><BR/>Graduating from college, both myself and my peers had plenty of opportunities to do non-traditional things, such as explore the world. Maybe we did it in a different way (by joining organizations like the Peace Corp or traveling to Europe for only six weeks.)<BR/><BR/>We too were a generation that did not want to settle. See, we have more in common than we think!<BR/><BR/>Roberta Matuson<BR/>http://generationintegration.typepad.com/matuson/yourhrstatshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10314597051677534314noreply@blogger.com