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Submission + - Young people are 'lost generation' who can no longer fix gadgets... (telegraph.co.uk)

antdude writes: "Young people in Britain have become a lost generation who can no longer mend gadgets and appliances because they have grown up in a disposable world, the professor giving this year’s Royal Institution Christmas lectures has warned.

Danielle George, Professor of Radio Frequency Engineering, at the University of Manchester, claims that the under 40s expect everything to ‘just work’ and have no idea what to do when things go wrong..."

Comment Re:Chinglish (Score 1) 578

For me, I was born in USA from my Chinese parents. All the older generation people are legal immigrANTs, so they speak Chinese natively. However, I can't even communicate English very well due to my disabilities. I even struggled with Spanish since I live in a Latino area for a secondary language requirements. :(

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