how to narrow the generation gap

Recently I heard someone boasting that today’s youth may encounter the problem of generation gap with people who are only five years older than they are. Obviously, it reflects that the society is really developing rapidly. However, I optimistically believe that such generation gap could be narrowed through our efforts.

How to narrow the generation gap? To answer this question, firstly we are supposed to find out the factors that have brought about generation gap. For one thing, young people today are exposed to an environment totally different from their parents’ or grandparents’. Confronting knowledge explosion, the youth are obliged to learn more and more. Owing to the globalization, the younger generation have daily contact with the outside world. By logging on to the Internet, they can see, hear, feel the newly emerging tendency. The influence of such kind of environment shapes the new generation’s characteristics. They tend to be more open and dynamic than the