Mike (not his real name) is a 23-year-old man with a certificate in food and beverage management from a private vocational high school in central Taiwan. Still others have nothing to say about their choice. Others have no understanding of the seriousness of the problem. Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina begins with the familiar line: "Happy families are all alike every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." If we were to paraphrase this notion as it applies to today's youth, we might say that young people need no reason to leave home and make their way in the world but each one that continues to shelter in the parental nest has a litany of reasons why. Is Taiwan getting ready to follow in their footsteps? Europe, Japan and the US have long been plagued by social problems.
done with school but seeking neither employment nor marriage-now prevalent among young Japanese.Īround the world, downward social mobility is replacing upward, the middle class is disappearing, life expectancies are growing, societies are aging, and more and more young people are responding by rejecting the idea of growing up. The book immediately sparked debate on the NEET lifestyle-Not in Employment, Education, or Training, i.e. In 2005, Genda Yuji, an associate professor at the University of Tokyo, and Maganuma Mie, a freelance writer, published NEET, a sociological work that draws attention to the employment troubles of contemporary Japanese youth.
Some 2,500 years later, not all young people agree. Some 500 years before the Common Era, Confucius said,"At 15, I set my mind on learning at 30, I stood upright." He meant that by the age of 30, a young man should have begun to make his way in the world and achieved a measure of success.
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