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根据下面资料,回答题 Recent surveys show that Japanese youth have become a "Me Generation" that rejects traditional values.
"Around 1980 many Japanese, (31)__ young people abandoned the values of economic success and be- gan (32) for new setsof values to(33) them happiness, " writes sociologist Yasuhiro in Com- parative Civilizations Review. Japanese youth are placing more importance on the individual' s pursuit of (34) and less on the values of work, family, and society.
Japanese students seem to be losing patience with work, (35) their counterparts in the UnitedStates and Korea. In a 1993(36)__ of college students in the three countries, only 10% of theJapanese regarded (37) as a primary value compared with 47% of Korean students and 27% of American students. A greater (38) of Japanese aged 18 - 24 also preferred easy jobs (39) heavy responsibility.
The younger Japanese are showing less concern for family values as they pursue an inner word of private satis- faction. Data collected(40) the Japanese government in 1993 shows that only 23% of Japanese youth are thinking about supporting their aged parents, in contrast(41 ) 63% of young Americans. It appears that many younger-generation Japanese are (42) __ both respect for their parents(43 ) a sense of respon- sibility to the family. Author Yoshizaki attributes the change (44) Japanese parents' over-indulgence of their children, material affluence, and growing(45) for private matters.
The shift (46) individualism among Japanese is most pronounced among(47 ) very young. According to 1991 data (48) the Bunka Center of Japan, 50% of Japanese youth aged 16 -19 can be la- beled "self-centered" compared with 33% among (49) aged 25-29. To earn the self-centered label, the young people responded positively to (50) ideas as "I would like to make decisions without considering traditional valuse" and "I don' t want to do anything I can' t enjoy doing.
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