As the Olympic Flame went out after the Beijing Olympic Games, a new generation came out------- Bird's Nest Generation.

First appeared on the Korea Daily in the following day of the Olympics Opening, the Bird's Nest Generation refers to those teenage Olympic volunteers, born in 1980's and 1990's, with higher education and patriotic minds. Although they were called the "lost generation" and the "Internet mob" not a long time ago, they conquered the whole world with their smiles and abilities and proved that they are the hope of China, instead of being too materialistic or having a catch-as-catch-can life.

However, the Taiwan's United Daily News dubbed their teenagers of the same age the "Birdcage Generation" in contrast. How does it come?The answer comes from a junior of Taiwan University, who visited Beijing during the Olympics with 90 other students from different universities of Taiwan. He found out some obvious distinctions between the Taiwan 80~90's and the mainland 80~90's,which reflects the problems of them-----being confined to the Taiwan politics and economics.

After he went back to Taiwan, he reflected upon themselves and wrote an article recording the experiences and also insufficiencies of them,besides, disadvantages of our mainland teens included. It became popular immediately on the Internet and was reprinted on various web sites and newspapers. It aroused a discussion storming on this.

We summed up some points of the distinctions between the Bird's nest Generation and the Birdcage Generation,which really deserve our deep thought.

First,the Taiwan students are not gracious enough and kind of narrow-minded.They are too involved in some trivial matter to get rid of the gossips of the celebrities,not like in Beijing,where we can be well informed of international issues.Meanwhile,it appears that they are very elegant,while in fact,they lack some in-depth spiritual support.And we are better at expressing ourselves more logical and confident.

Second, the Birdcages don't want to be the bellwether or to bear the brunt.They hold the "Someone-will-do-it" and "It-is-not-my-business" thought.What the students of Beijing High School 4 represent to us is that we are able to and ready to take the responsibilities.

Third,the atmosphere.The free atmosphere in Taiwan contrasts well with the academic and serious study backgrounds.It's quiet common that students handle their romance journals to their teachers for advice.Impossible in Beijing High School 4,or you shall not be recommended for admission to key universities.

Apart from the above aspects, the Bird's Nest Generation and the Birdcage Generation have their own defects.

"Students here are always busy,busy discussing how to have fun together,how to seize the fashion and the relationship stuff.I can come first by just reciting some key points night before the examination for one night."A girl of Taiwan National Tsing Hua University.She went there as an exchange student when she was a junior of Beijing University.As for the boys,they are becoming more and more girlish and cosmetology becomes the top priority.

Sometimes we are sort of so officially speaking that our concepts fossilized.Without a more multiplied circumstances, we should keep our horizons more wide to get used to the global development.

Wether the Bird's Nest Generation or the Birdcage Generation,as the news remarked, the world is ours.We have to shoulder the future.