Generally speaking, life has four stages: childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. Nowadays, according to sociologists, the stages of life have been extended to six: childhood, adolescence, odyssey, adulthood, active retirement and old age.
As a physiological person, people have not changed, but the indicators that define "people" are different. Just like there was no "adolescence" more than a hundred years ago. At present, the "Odyssey period" has become popular.
For them, going to school is no longer a patent before the age of 22, but can be changed like a boyfriend and a girlfriend. Many of them are not completely independent financially, so they have to rely on their parents' support. They put off working, getting married and having children. In short, from college graduation to adulthood, this period of time has been extended by five years, seven years or even longer.
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According to statistics, from 65438 to 0960, about 70% of 30-year-old American young people were completely independent economically and formed their own families. By 2000, less than 40% of young people had achieved the same goal.
Compared with their parents, young people in the Odyssey period have many remarkable characteristics: conforming "dating" gives way to Facebook or chatting with friends; Marriage becomes "cohabitation" or simply living in parents' home; Reading newspapers gave way to blogs (1970, 49% of American young people in their twenties read newspapers every day, but now, this number has dropped to 2 1%).
Young people in the Odyssey period also held the banner of "gender revolution". Today, 36% of American women workers in their twenties have college degrees, while only 23% of men have. Correspondingly, the wages of female employees have also increased a lot, while the wages of male employees are at a standstill.
During the Odyssey period, this phenomenon happened not only in the United States, but also in some European countries, young people delayed marriage and kept switching between school and work for longer than American young people. It seems that the Odyssey period is the trend of the world.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Odyssey Period