174 Every generation of people is different in important ways. How is your generation different from your parents' generation? Use specific reasons and examples to explain your answer.

Although it seems to be simple, the question that how is your generation different from your parents' generation is a complex and controversial one. Undoubtedly, although people surely inherit some characters from their parents, along with the development of the society, every generation of people will be different in important ways. In the following analysis, I would like to present some aspects to show the difference between our generation and our parents' generation.
Above all, one of the most important differences is on education. Because the social conditions, such as economy, science, technology, and even culture were much poorer twenty years ago than they are today, our parents' generation had fewer chances to receive a good education. Unlike most of our parents, who had to study in the school that provided courses for adult only at night when they were thirty or even forty years old, our generation is very fortunate. We can enter the school when we are six or seven years old, the age most appropriate to begin to receive a formal education. And because of such advantages, we also have far more opportunities to promote us to high schools, colleges or universities than did our parents’ generation.

Another aspect is on the chance of getting in touch with the world. It is obvious that the sciences and technologies have developed marvelously in the last twenty years. Many high-tech companies appear and many advanced products are manufactured everyday, changing our life profoundly and providing us more means to observe and realize this world. For example, the Internet technology, by which people can send or take messages much more faster than by traditional mail, greatly improves the communication and increases the understanding among people of different area, or even different country. Undoubtedly, these improvements promote the quality of our life. Whereas, without these developed technologies, our parents’ generation has few chances to broaden the field of view.

Although our generation is different from our parents’ generation, two generations also have many identical characters. For example, we all pray for the peace all over the world, hoping no wars, no natural disasters, and no any other calamities, we all wish the sciences and technologies can be developed faster, making the quality of our life better, and we all look forward to happiness and fortune of all the people in the world.

In conclusion, although it is well known that the difference between our generation and our parents’ generation is inevitable, especially when technologies and sciences develop quickly, there are also many identical characters in such both generations, such as the thought of peace and development, two main topics in the history of the human being.