Chapter 85 Neither cars nor computers have won the hearts of young Japanese

Looking at the Japanese people nowadays, especially young people under the age of 29, I feel that "the Japanese have become completely different from before". Because today's young people have no ambition at all. Young people who are now in their 20s lived through the “bubble bust” as children (they were in their teens when the bubble started to burst in 1989).In short, these people know the world too well, so they never have a good vision for Japan's future in their hearts. First of all, this generation has no hope for the future, but even if there is no hope, life must go on, so they can only accept the reality and seek an ordinary life.

People living in Japan now do not feel that life is so unfree as before, and they can also be satisfied in terms of material life.Perhaps it is for this reason that people who have no desires and no desires have appeared in this era.Young people have become materialistic and have no positive attitude towards life. Ten years ago, the first goal of young men after work was to buy a car, and they looked forward to being able to drive and date girls since they were young, but now young people seem to have lost interest in cars. Not only cars, but even some young people in their 20s have gradually lost interest in computers.If they have a problem at work, instead of talking to a person online like I do, they call.They don't think it's necessary to buy a computer specifically.This tendency is particularly pronounced among high school students, who live with their parents but do not have their own dedicated computers.

According to the "Comparative Survey on the Consumption of Middle School Students in Japan, the United States, China and South Korea" published by the Japan Youth Research Institute in April 2008, although 96.5% of Japanese high school students have mobile phones (60%~80% in other countries), among Japanese high school students The number of people who have their own computers only accounts for 21% of the total number, compared with 60.7% in the United States, only 1/3 of the United States.For them, the mobile phone is indispensable, and nothing else is important. There is a saying that "the young people nowadays are only interested in things within a radius of 3 meters around them", and now it seems that this is true.

If there is any lofty ambition for young people today, it is to travel abroad.In fact, most of the people who go abroad now do not have the purpose of gaining knowledge. Among the ranks of hikers from various countries, young Japanese are rarely seen. In addition, the number of Japanese students studying abroad is also decreasing. Now when European and American universities talk about Asian students studying abroad, they refer to Chinese and Koreans, not us Japanese. Now, most of the new employees who have just entered Japanese trading companies are unwilling to work overseas, and this situation is common not only in Japan, but also in the world. Employees like to travel abroad, but they don't like to work abroad.

We have to sigh: "The same young people, how come there is such a big gap in a different era?" Yes, the young people today are really different from the young people in the past. Think about those in Japan in the 1980s. Aspiring young people, who are not high-spirited, have endless energy, trying to expand their influence to the world, and even bought Rockefeller Center and hotels on Waikiki Beach.And look at these young people today, it's really not what it used to be! So, why are young people in Japan so mentally immature these days?This is what I said before, because the whole country of Japan is still affected by the aftermath of the collapse of the bubble economy.But if this astonishingly unambitious state of ambition is allowed to continue, the ultimate result must be Japan's gradual decline.Dr. Clark once left behind such famous aphorisms as "Boys be ambitious" (Boys be ambitious), grand ambitions are the driving force behind social development in any era.

So think carefully about the lack of ambition of young people mentioned in this chapter, and the low learning ability of children that has been discussed in recent years.