This discussion on the Shift Happens WikiSpaces referenced and article about some students who when hearing about a 9th grader in their school, was being relentlessly teased about wearing a pink shirt, went out and bought 50 pink shirts to distribute at school. The idea snowballed into an anti-bullying cause that they named "Sea of Pink". The original article can be read here: From "Me" Generation to "We" Generation.
I think that as an adult raised in the "me" generation, I was very blessed to somehow have raised 3 children (all 5 yrs apart) as "we" type little adults LOL. All three of them have a confident sense of an individual self, and yet are definitely "we thinkers" and "we carers". The concept of a "we" generation is an awesome one, that I hope continues, without turning the next generation into socialists. Hopefully, we as a nation, and a world can find this balance. Because, the only way we will ever fix many of the issues facing our country, and our world is if "we" work together as a global collective.
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