Very good point from both ‘usnameless’ and ‘Paulllam’. I do agree your thoughts. You highlighted very detail on the social issues in associated with this topic —“一代不如一代”. I am so impressed with your thoughts and analysis.
However, as I just mentioned, I realise that your points are more about social issue and government policy, in which personally I won’t make much comment on. It is because I don’t live in HK for last 10 years, so I won’t be able to know all social issues in HK. All I knew about hk is from newspaper and news (we have TVB (pay TV)).
On the other hand, I always believe that government policy never fits everyone. Some could take the benefit and some would suffer. It is hard for me to draw a line in between to illustrate issues / facts.
Now, back to this topic again, I have just defined another possible reason of 一代不如一代.
This time is not regarding to education, but the expectation from the parents to their children. I don’t mean parents should not put any expectation on their generation; however, sometimes this behaviour does not fair to the young generations. It is because the world is changing everyday, but you still use your own ruler to measure today’s things, this is a bias. A typical argument could happen with your parents say: “When I was your age, I have already got A and B or you can do this or that, but why still don’t have it or why can’t do it now?”
I would say this is a generation gap. As a young generation, we never understand their world. With our parents, although they sit on both ages and they think they understand the situations in different ages, however, they don’t understand fully. Given this example, It is not surprised they comment us as 一代不如一代
Personally, I think my idea us an extreme case, in which I don’t think all bros could agree my thoughts, but anyway, happy reading and comment.
Ps I may need bro “usnameless” to interpret this in Chinese for me. Thanks.
