I still feel heavily stereotyped, not because I am defending a lie, but because I feel that people expect those my age to be idiotic. While most people my age are idiotic in every way possible, I have found that there is a small percentage of us that are practically more intelligent then average. For example, I truthfully can say that my peers do know what is wrong these days, but have no possible motivation to show this knowledge. I have seen this myself, the fact that many these days do want to learn, do want to think, do want to work hard. The problem is, we have idiots, which is fine, but they are more vocal then ever. It appears that these days, bad influences are able to corrupt the geniuses of my generation because they can always be around. I have also realized that when someone believes they are entitled to everything, the more they were raised with whatever they wanted. I will admit, I was raised with the best technology and food all the time, and now I want said items continuously. I have learned a valuable lesson though; that you should exploit weaknesses in yourself to improve yourself. These days, I am now the one to call when something goes wrong and a computer starts exploding with smoke everywhere. (albeit I still cannot fix hardware, need lessons in that) The sad thing is that adolesents have found nothing worth continuing on for, as it can feel that we hold a greater share of the bargain then our parents. This is at least partially true, as we are expected to do far more work then years past (a teacher told us, ha!) and my generation will have to pay off trillions of dollars in debt accumulated from all groups, all backgrounds, and all types (thinking that using 'types' might be offensive) of previous generations. It is a truly imposing outcome regarding the future, but the current generation will make it. Of course, many things that are said by others here have viable evidence, but that was not the point of this. From a 13 year old in the Middle Atlantic region of the contiguous United States.