March 2009 - Gen Y Life

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Generation Y Life - March 2009

It's Goodbye Etiquette, From Genreation Y

March 12th 2009 00:14

Do you remember when letters used to start with 'Dear Sir/Madam'? Well it turns out this is too formal for Gen Yers, and we will be addressing you all as 'Hi John/Jane' regardless of your rank or experience. Oh, and expect swearing to become a fixture of regular communication; I've witnessed the word 'cunt' make its way into a formal discussion on a company intranet (not at Orble I should point out). But the point is, manners aren't what they used to be, and they're deteriorating rapidly.

Why are we lacking in politeness? Well it seems that we don't think we are, we seem to be under the impression that the world has relaxed generally and every situation has taken a more casual feel. "how's it goin'" is considered by us to be polite and friendly whenever and wherever it's used, and something along the lines of 'good evening' is viewed as being too stiff and may get you labelled a 'tosser'.

Look, honestly, I'm not in favour of the decrease in etiquette standards, but I don't really think there's much I can do. If this is the direction we're headed in, I think we might end up with a snowball effect towards casualness. Again, I may not like it, but it seems like it's a part of our social evolution... or devolution, I don't think cavemen said 'good evening'.

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Indian women burn, often due to domestic violence.

March 3rd 2009 09:10

Indian women are three times more likely to die in fires than Indian men, a study published in the Lancet medical journal has found. Specifically, 106 000 women died by fire in 2001. The women most at risk are between the ages of 15 and 34, and the reasons for these fires are mainly kitchen accidents, self-immolation (setting oneself of fire), and domestic violence which is often made to look like a kitchen accident, often because of a dispute over a women's dowry. Source.

India Jaising, director of the Women's Rights Initiative of the Lawyers Collective in New Delhi, says when women approach the authorities over dowry disputes, the authorities do not take them seriously. She accuses authorities of only 'paying lip service' to the issue of disguising such murders as kitchen accidents. Source.

Some of you might be wondering why I'm blogging about this. Well, the women in question are largely aged between 15 and 34, which means some of them are from Generation Y, thus placing them in my blogging domain. I'd also like to highlight the struggles of female Gen Yers to gain social equality (note we do not hear of men being burnt over dowries) and on a more macabre note, the different suicide methods popular across the world. I'm curious as to know why self-immolation is a popular modus operate in that region of the globe- I personally would want something a little less painful, but I digress.

So, women being set on fire; sometimes I wonder how we can have iPods on one end, and this at the other, and still be living on the same planet at the same time. *sigh* well I guess that's diversity for you.

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The Combination movie banned after waves of violence at screenings.

March 1st 2009 05:13

There is an independent film currently playing called The Combination. It is about Lebanese gang violence and it's set during or around the time of the Cronulla Riots. Greater Union cinemas have just banned the film altogether after a wave of violence at screenings of it in Sydney's Parramatta and Liverpool districts.

One incident occurred during a sold out screening at Parramatta's Greater Union cinema when a lady asked a group of men in front of her to stop talking- they responded by punching her in the face.

In a separate incident, a security guard was also assaulted for daring to ask a man to stop smoking in a no smoking area.

Greater Union staffs were generally intimidated, and at one point refused to enter the theatres the movie was playing in.

After such antisocial behaviour, Greater Union Cinemas decided to cease playing the film.

So is this what our generation has come to?

We supposed to be about individualism and expressing ourselves. We’re the generation that does things differently, but this lot who've used violence to bring censorship seem an awful lot like fascists to me.

Now again, we tend to be an individualistic bunch, but have we gone so far as to be psychologically selfish? What's up with punching lady for asking you to be quiet in a movie theatre? I mean, you can hardly claim provocation; it's not like she said your mother's looser than George Bush's grip on the English language.

What we need is a good famine causing war to give us our appreciation back.

Oh and, my source for this story was the Sunday Telegraph. Google it or something.
us our appreciation back.