1:GrizTod :2014/07/27(日)
昔は学校にメガネ掛けていっただけでバカにされたけど、ウチの子供達は「そのメガネかっこいい」とか言われるとこ

When I got glasses I was called four eyes. When my kids got glasses everybody said "cool glasses"!




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2:TrentWoodruff :2014/07/27(日)
私は48歳で先生やってるんだけど、今の若い世代は大好きだわ。 今までのどの世代よりもテクノロジーに適応してるし、何に対しても寛容。 自分の高校時代と比べてオタクであることが大きなハンデにならない。 学校でいい成績を取ることがポジティブなこととして捉えられてるし、社会的な観念が昔と比べて高いからボランティアに参加するのにも躊躇がない。 むしろネガティブなとこが見つからないくらいだけど、強いて言うとしたらピアス開けすぎ

I'm 48 (today, in fact) and I'm a teacher. Frankly, I LOVE today's youth. Here's why: They're far more tech-savvy than most of my timeframe even are today, never mind back then. They're enormously more accepting of people than my generation. Being a nerd/geek doesn't seem to be the massive handicap it was when I was in high school (being both a nerd and geek). Intelligence and doing well in school are seen as good things (although it seems as though a couple of sub-cultures are trying to fight that fight). The social consciousness of today's youth is also very apparent. When I was in high school, that really didn't exist. But it is an active thing - community service is seen as something that is worth doing and enjoying. I don't have a lot of negatives to say, actually, about today's youths. Ok, I have one (and I admit this is COMPLETELY about my own biases)...way too many piercings. Ick.

3:zeidrich :2014/07/27(日)
人々はより寛容的になって暴力的になることが減ったよ。メディアはそう思わせないけど、人々が暴力的でなくなったからこそ、そうであったときの注目度が高いんだろう。 あとインターネットを使った様々なチャンスに恵まれてる。大人が話すような内容を同じレベルで議論できるからね。昔は大人の意見が聞きたかったら両親か教師くらいしかいなかったけど、今なら専門家の意見をすぐに調べることが出来るからね。グーグルで検索するだけで5つの視点からそれぞれの説明に触れ、それに対する動画による説明を観ることだって可能なのだから。ただ一番難しいのはそれらの中から嘘を見抜くこと。と言っても昔の教科書ですら嘘で溢れてたけどね。

People are more tolerant, less violent. The media makes it sound otherwise, but people are less hurtful and when they are it's a big deal. They also have great opportunities that come with the Internet. They get to engage with adults on adult subjects every day. As a youth, if I had any adult ideas, I could only get support or feedback from my parents or teachers, I didn't have the resources to get feedback from an expert in the field. Now you can google your problem and get 5 different explanations from 5 different points of view and 5 different video explanations. The hardest part about it is telling which explanation is full of shit. But that's better than my textbook, which was sometimes full of shit itself.

4:ClemClem510 :2014/07/27(日)
>>3
子どもから言わせてもらうと、むしろネットがない時代の生活ってのが想像できない

As a kid, I simply can't comprehend how you guys survived so long before the internet.

5:readzalot1 :2014/07/27(日)
>>4
ネットの登場前は「…ってどうなってるんだろ?」って疑問に答えが出ることはなかった。90年代初めだったと思うけど、家族で昔の歌の歌詞について話してて「ネットで調べたらいいじゃん!」ってひらめいたんだよね。それで少し掛かったけど答えが見つかったんだ。忘れられない体験だよ

Before the internet, you could say "I wonder..." and not get an answer. I remember the day (early 1990s?) when the family was discussing the lyrics in an old song. Then it hit me - I bet we could get the answer on the internet! And sure enough, with some effort, there were the lyrics. It was stunning.

6:armatron444 :2014/07/27(日)
ジェネレーションX(第二次世界大戦の終結からケネディ政権の発足までに生まれた世代)の俺はミレニアル(1980年だから2000年代初頭生まれ)と日々接するけど、フィードバックを受けて改善するのが得意だと思う。内発的な動機付けによって動くことも多いし、一緒に働いていて楽しいよ。うちらの世代と違ってなんでも皮肉に捉えないからね

I'm a Gen X and work in a field with mostly Millennials, and I manage them. They are really good at taking feedback and improving. I think they are more into intrinsic rewards than other generations. As much as you can generalize a huge group of people, I like working with them, they don't seem as cynical as my generation.

7:vincent118 :2014/07/27(日)
>>6
歳を取るごとにみんな皮肉っぽくなるさ。俺らがあんたの歳になるまでには同じくらい皮肉に満ちてるだろうね

Keep in mind that cynicism takes time. By the time we're at your age we might be just as cynical as your generation or more.

8:LaughingVergil :2014/07/27(日)
>>
皮肉っぽい奴め

How cynical of you.

9:Wintersparrow :2014/07/27(日)
メディアや広告や政治家の垂れ流す嘘に影響されずに、若い世代の大半がバランスが取れてて真面目で寛容でいられるっていうのはスゴイと思う

I think it is amazing that the vast majority of young people are so well balanced, decent and kind given the diet of rubbish they've been fed by the media, advertisers and politicians.

10:firks :2014/07/27(日)
>>9
周りが嘘に溢れてるからかもよ。周りに溢れてるからこそある程度嘘を見抜くことが出来るんじゃないかな。あれも嘘これも嘘となると、最終的には周りに優しくして楽しく生きるってのが唯一の正解に見えてくるんじゃない?

I think it's partly because of the rubbish. See enough of it, and at some point you see something you know is bullshit. Well if one thing is bullshit, maybe there's more bullshit. Do this until you see everything is bullshit, and then all that matters is being nice and having fun.

11:duggreen :2014/07/27(日)
こんなん簡単よ。若い人のほうが優しくて、非暴力的だからね。賛同されなくても寛容に対処できるし、違う知識をもつ人々ともやっていけてる。どれも俺ら「頑固な」年上世代にとっちゃ難しいからね

Oh, that's easy. Younger people are much nicer, less violent. Young people can tolerate being disagreed with and work well in diverse groups made of people with unrelated knowledge. That's hard for us 'tough' old timers.

12:CHRISTMAS-APE :2014/07/27(日)
>>11
これまさに俺の職場だわ。 いま33歳だからちょうど上の世代と若い世代の真ん中みたいなもんで、 上の世代は少しでも変化があるとそれに対処できずに騒ぎ出すんだ。それでいて間違いを指摘されたらまるで親の敵のように個人的に受け止めるし…。もちろん全員がそうじゃないし、上の世代にもいい人はいっぱいいるけどね

一方下の世代は変化にも対応できるし批判も受け止められる。彼らに間違いを指摘したら、時計をチラリと見てから「わかった、もしまだ時間があるならあんたのアイディアも試してみようじゃないか」って言うのさ。何に対しても冷静だよね

I've noticed this at work... I'm 33, so I'm comfortably in between the oldies and youngies at work. With the older coworkers of mine, if anything happens to even slightly change their plan for the day they freak the fuck out. It's the end of the world. And if they're told that they're wrong, it's a personal attack, like I'm holding a knife to their kid's throat... Only generally speaking of course. Some oldies are goodies. But with my younger coworkers, they can handle change, they can handle criticism. They seem to be able to throttle aloofness and rise above the situation. If you tell them they're wrong, and they think they're right, they glance at the clock and say, "Okay, if you think we have the time for that, let's try your idea!". They're COOL about shit.

13:klassykitty :2014/07/27(日)
>>11
何においても相手が正しいと仮定してみるのは大事。もし本当にそうなら貴重なレッスンを学んだわけだし、長期的に見て時間の節約にもなる。それにオープンだと思われることで他人に自分のアイディアも受け入れてもらいやすくなるしね。

Always best to assume you're wrong and try another persons idea first. If they are proven right, you leaned something and probably save time in the long run. To top it off you really do look like less of an ass in doing this, and more open minded which would generally let others be more accepting with your ideas. Also, what do you do for work if i may ask?

14:Shit_Shooter :2014/07/27(日)
賢い奴がさらに羽ばたく環境が整ってる。若い世代に関しては型にはめた批判で、お先真っ暗だって言うのは簡単だけど、すごいやつはマジでスゴイ。 アートや音楽に関しても若い世代が注目を集めてるのは嬉しいし、テクノロジーのお陰でアクセス性が飛躍的に向上したからね

Smart kids are getting smarter. It's easy to bag on the youth and bitch about how things are going down hill. But the ones that get it right are really killing it. In the art realm, it's cool seeing younger people be recognized for the shit they are creating. Music and the like, mostly. Technology is making these kinds of things much more accessible at a much younger age.

15:richirichx :2014/07/27(日)
>>14
本当にその通りだと思うわ。 インターネットを通して世界中に自分の作品を発表できるってのは素晴らしいと思う。 実世界では会うチャンスも無かったような人とサイバースペースで繋がれてるわけだからね。 でも競争相手も増えるわけだからある意味では諸刃の剣だね。でも挑戦はいつだって大事

I think you hit the nail on the head. The fact that you can put music out to literally anyone across the globe thanks to the internet, is truly a beautiful thing. Just the chances of me coming across other musicians I currently work with are astronomical to say the least - yet here we are doing our thing over cyberspace. There's also a ton of competition though, so it's a double-edged sword. But hey, you gotta keep trying.

16:hippiehen :2014/07/27(日)
彼らのクリエイティビティ。テクノロジー主体だろうが、アート、音楽、起業スキルまで彼らは素晴らしいよ。20代前半やティーンのときでビジネス始める人がいてスゴイと思う。

Their creativity. Whether it's technologically driven, artistic, musically, entrepreneurial skills, whatever, they have it. So many young people start businesses while they are in their teens and early twenties that it's amazing.

17:eightfingeredtypist :2014/07/27(日)
20代の娘二人の親だけど、この世代は昔と比べて誰かがいったことをそのまま鵜呑みにすることが少ないと思う。昔は公に向けて公開されたものは盲目的な権威があったけど、いまでは人種や性別があまり情報の信憑性とは関連しなくなってる

今の人は作り話を信じることも少なくなってるしね。私が子どもだった60年代や70年代と比べると、カルト宗教や過激な政治活動に参加する人も少なくなってる気がする。

I'm the parent of two women in their 20's. This generation is less apt to accept the wisdom of their elders. In the past, anything published was assumed to have been vetted by People Who Know. Now, all kinds of people can be heard, and their race and gender has less influence on acceptance of their information. I find that young people I meet today are less apt to make up stuff and believe it, compared to the 1960's an 70's, when I was a kid. I remember kids joining communes, cults, crazy political parties, and going off to live in the woods with spiritual leaders.

18:gizamo :2014/07/27(日)
>>17
先人の知恵を受け入れないんじゃなくて、その知恵が本当かどうか調べるクセがあるんだろう。でも今の子どもがなんでも情報をオープンにシェアする姿勢はいいと思う。自分が子供の頃は数人の友達としか情報を共有しなかったけど今じゃあ誰とでもすぐに情報が共有されるからね。スゴイわ

No. It's not so much that they don't accept the wisdom; it is that they verify that the "wisdom" is actually wise before they believe it and spread it about -- which brings me to my addition: I love how kids share information so quickly and openly now. When I was a kid, we learned something and shared it with a few friends. Now-a-days, everyone shares with everyone always and instantaneously. It's pretty awesome.

19:the_brick_attack :2014/07/27(日)
>>18
これはいい面と悪い面の両方があるけどね。悪い面は嘘の情報も共有されやすいということ。

This is good and bad. The only reason it is bad is because it is easy to spread misinformation.

20:nipple_fire :2014/07/27(日)
今の子供達は肌の色やセクシュアリティで人を差別することはあまりないかな。 素晴らしいことだと思う。このまま続けてくれればね

a lot of children today can't even fathom the idea of treating someone different b/c of the color of their skin or sexual orientation. I find that to be quite beautiful & hope they don't lose that

21:fibonacciapples :2014/07/27(日)
>>20
確かにLGBT(性的少数者)に対する偏見はまだあるけど、上の世代よりは圧倒的に少ないと思う

There's still lots of anti-LGBT youth but definitely less than adults/elders

22:aabbccatx :2014/07/27(日)
希望に溢れてて、環境に対する配慮は私たちの世代よりあると思う

They are still full of hope and they seem to care about the environment far more than we did.

23:roxykesh :2014/07/27(日)
喫煙がカッコよくなくなった:)

It's not cool to smoke cigarettes anymore :)

24:datpcbro:2014/07/27(日)
やっぱりおっぱいは若々しいほうがいいよね:)

Their boobs. So lively. :)

25:MissAlexandria :2014/07/27(日)
23歳としてはこのスレのレス見て元気でたわ。まだ俺らの世代にも希望はある!

As a 23 year old, I found these positive responses really encouraging to read. Thanks, older people. All is not lost on us!

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