Yet farmers like Mr. Seiwa worry about the incessant international pressure, combined with younger generations' lack of interest in agriculture.
Previous generations lacked the conveniences of today, but their daily activities required more physical labor than today's culture is willing to exert.
Professor Apter thinks that the current generation of retired professors, in particular, possesses qualities that other generations lack, because many of his colleagues came to academia after surviving the Depression and World War II.
Subsequent generations lacked their forebears' spiritual commitment to labor, on the one hand, and to self-denial, on the other, but by this point it didn't really matter.
This is no longer a country making cheapo kitchenware, but a land that is heading to the top, even if, in the less pricey suburbs and the countryside, there is a lot of semi-disguised poverty for an older generation lacking a degree and a business suit.
Sure, maybe we're trying to compensate for our own shortcomings a neutered generation lacking in role models, limping from the shadows of predecessors who defined themselves by the wars they fought, the things they made, and the fields they tilled.
Although no generation lacks warts, our 20-somethings are terrific.
In Georgia, Shevardnadze clung too long to power, telling us that the new generation lacked experience.
Children of today's television generation lack the attention span for in-depth learning, the new head of one of Britain's teaching unions has warned.
Record unemployment has squeezed household budgets and left consumers reluctant to upgrade older models, and much of the younger generation lacks the means to purchase their first cars.
