You are walking around your neighborhood with your young daughter, when she turns to you and says, “Papa, papa, give me water. Give me water.” All that you can think about is that she just learned to talk, and is asking for water. “I am dying of thirst,” she tells you. “Papa, this cockroach. Let me show you.” Suddenly, a soldier comes and stabs your daughter right above her eyebrow. You fall to the ground, faking your own death as your child dies right before your eyes. This is Venuste Karasira’s story, a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. This mass murder had the same nature of the Holocaust as they both had to do with the beliefs of racial superiority. The devastating number of six million who died due to the Holocaust dealt with starvation, dehydration, fatal diseases, and beatings. Would you want to endure that? Would you want it to happen to your children or grandchildren? People were killed because of their appearances, lifestyles, beliefs, and race. The real question is--who needs to know this information? Who is going to make a change? The answer is Generation Z, people age 7-21. We need to educate them about worldwide issues throughout history so the same events don’t happen again. In order to do this, we need to know the characteristics of their …show more content…
This means they will make more realistic choices when faced with major decisions. They are also more ambitious. They don't want to be a part of a company, they want to own a company. This gives them the initiative to want to change the world. Another major attribute of Post-Millennials is how reliant they are on technology. They would rather connect through social media than face to face. The last thing that is that people in Generation Z are more accepting. This means they will be less likely to terrorize others because of their differences, and the people they will be leading--other Generation Zs--will accept the changes