A Global Generation Gap Analysis

Most assume old people and young people tend to see things, such as age, experiences, health, social background, beliefs, and local and global events differently for a number of reasons. However, in A Global Generation Gap by the Pew Research Center, published in 2004, the variance in beliefs of old and young people, for the most part, appear consistent across the world (Pew). In the Pew Research article, a series of questions were administered to people in the United States, Latin America, Europe, China, Japan, and Africa to study the differences in beliefs of both young and old people while comparing those results to people from other parts of the world. According to the article, “These findings are based on the Pew Global Attitudes Project‘s

According to a 2007, another Pew Research article a majority of countries believe in strengthening immigration (Pew 2007). Despite the article being nearly a decade old, I find the results to be in line with some of the issues in the contemporary world today. For example, immigration has been a big topic during the 2016 U.S. presidential race. Republican nominee Donald J. Trump has proposed “building a wall” to stop immigrants entering the United States from mexico illegally and banning muslims from entering the country. Trump falls into the survey’s majority of Americans older than 65 who believe in greater immigration restrictions. As one can see, A Global Generation Gap is currently relevant. Even though many countries and folks believe in strengthening immigration, many are in favor of acquiring a foreign language. In A Global Generation Gap, it was discovered that in many of the world’s countries acquiring a foreign language was seen as unimportant to young people (Pew). However, that attitude may have shifted in recent years. According to The Guardian’s article entitled Do young people care about learning foreign languages?, roughly 20% of young adults speak a second language at home, and about 70% of young adults are interested in learning a second language (Guardian). In addition to immigration and foreign language acquisition, the belief in one’s culture 's superiority is also

According to A Global Generation Gap, only the young people from the U.S. and Western Europe felt that their culture was less superior, whereas nearly every other age group from all the surveyed countries believed that their culture was the best (Pew).
Critical Eye I believe A Global Generation Gap by the Pew Research Center did a fantastic job presenting the results, but not so much in relating the topic. The addition of the state’s history and implications that led to the results would have been nice to include if available. I would have also liked to have seen similar recent studies to compare with the Pew’s 2004 findings to exam if there have been any differences in the data.
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