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“Once upon a time, there was a generation of parents who were certain that Elvis Presley's unashamed hip-swivellingvwas most certainly the end of society.”

Generations Parents Generation Parents Quotes Elvis Elvis Presley Geny

Book:Understanding Y

Source: Understanding Y

“The human compulsion to group people and objects together was ingrained in our being since we evolved. We need to group things, group the dangerous and unknown from the 'safe to eat' or the 'it won't eat you' categories. Without the ability to categorise these threats, our ancestors wouldn't have survived.”

Stereotypes Categorization Stereotyping Geny

Book:Understanding Y

Source: Understanding Y

“The Kony campaign us an example of how powerful 'slacktivisim' can be, and demonstrates that, with enough worldwide awareness and social pressure, movements like this one have the power to make politicians move. It also makes the ignorant less so. No-one knew who Kony was before the campaign. The atrocities were happening, and it wasn't even a blip on the social consciousness radar. It's encouraging that there's a way to spread information like this so quickly.”

Social Media Social Consciousness Geny Generations Intelligence Wisdom Kony 2012 Slacktivisim

Book:Understanding Y

Source: Understanding Y

“The purpose of school is for children to learn, not for them to feel good about themselves all the time.”

Self Esteem Geny Millenial

Book:Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled—and More Miserable Than Ever Before

Source: Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled—and More Miserable Than Ever Before

“Social media is a powerful tool to raise awareness and create change. But we must take care not to rely upon it as a reflection of our charitable efforts.”

Change Generations Awareness Charity Social Media Change The World Charitable Social Media Behaviour Geny

Book:Understanding Y

Source: Understanding Y

“Gen Y's work best in groups, collaboratively, transparently, interactively and entrepreneurially - and have already created positive change in many local communities and around the world.”

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Book:Understanding Y

Source: Understanding Y

“It has been said already, but bears repeating: no blanket statement can sum up an entire group of people. No book, no chapter, no study, no research report can attempt to do that either. Instead, Understanding Y attempts to start a conversation - one that we hope will delve a little deeper and dispel some commonly held assumptions about Generation Y, a conversation that we hope is the first of many.”

Generations Conversation Assumptions Geny

Book:Understanding Y

Source: Understanding Y

“Whether or not it has fully dawned on society, the reality is that Gen Y will soon have to assume the responsibility for a world crafted by previous generations.”

World Generations Inheritance Future Generation Geny

Book:Understanding Y

Source: Understanding Y

“Due to their reluctance to tie themselves down at a young age, they have the capacity as well as the predisposition to be their own bosses and following their own dreams.”

Generation Geny Baby Boomers Understandingy

Author:Bernard Salt