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Hello it's me Haining Liu, looking at China's generation gap.

My home country, China, has changed radically over the past few decades.

And I've been looking at how these massive changes have affected

attitudes between the different generations.

In a hundred years time China has been through so much the value of a family and our

traditional beliefs is broken and despairing between generations.

Now I realize that the huge gap between generations,

we are living a completely different world.

From 1979, many urban families in China were limited to having only one child

as the government tried to control population growth.

Because of this, most of my peers and my friends born in the early 1980s are only children. I often wonder how much this has defined who we are.

Our attitudes to life and the opportunities we've had compared to our parents and grandparents who had much bigger families.

In this generation, they get all the attention by the whole family.

Shin Ranshuhe has written about China's one child generation.

They live in like Emperor Princess.

When they talk to you what I want,

what everything is about themselves.

It's true we are sometimes accused of being little emperors, of having all the attention from our parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles, and of acting our own terms.

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