Chinese youth independent and care for society

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-05-24 19:29

The input of "90hou"(Post-90s) in search engines would present a lot of links to pictures showing explicit sexual images of young people and floods of information about their alleged lax attitude towards sex.

Many Chinese still label "Post-90s" as a self-centered generation that have tenuous family bonds.

"They have never run into any trouble as their parents did and have not felt the pain and frustration of life. They are less disciplined than their predecessors," Yu Kejie said.

"But they have a flexible mind and are not pedantic about rules and formalities," he added.

Bruce Humes, an American book reviewer who has been in the Chinese mainland since the mid-1990s, wrote in an e-mail forwarded to Xinhua that "Patriotism is on the rise in a big way in today's China, and young people are proud to be proud of their country."

Yu Kejie said young people's patriotism and self-confidence reflects the overall national confidence of the Chinese, and would serve as a spiritual treasure in their growth and development.

Huang Zhao, an interpretation postgraduate at Beijing Foreign Studies University said, "We do not have a starving stomach, but we have a mind with much pressure; we live in rented cramped rooms, jammed in crowded buses, but we are optimistic and confident to live on."

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