In an essay entitled, "Gen Y's Ego Trip Takes a Bad Turn," Larry Gordon and Louis Sahagun claim that today's college students, "Generation Y," are more narcissistics than any previous generations. The causes, they say, are internet websites like MySpace and YouTube that are only meant to promote yourself as an impressive individual, therefore influencing narcissism.
The Author's provide various samples of support for their claim including quotes, surveys, and novels. One piece of evidence is a "study led by a San Diego State University psychologist," proving that it's not only a petty concern of two individuals but a concern that is generating alot of attention, and even that of Acedemic institutes. Another piece of support, a novel, by Jean Twenge, is entitled,"Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled-and Mor Miserable Than Ever," suggests that Gordon and Sahagun have not only entered into a subject of many followers but a subject that has been followered for many years.
The authors of this essay are concerned for this generation and their behavioral outcome but also resent their current tendencies, behaviors, and instigators. They hint that if it weren't for certain t.v. programs, websites, medias etc., they wouln't have such narcissistic and self loathing personalities that the authors find so bothersome.
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I like it that you included specific examples as evidence from the essay. Were you convinced though?:-)
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