"Each new generation is inferior to the last one," an old Chinese saying probably heard and repeated by most of you. We always think that our previous generations are outdated and they cannot understand us. Meanwhile, we perceive that things our next generations do are somehow too novel or extreme that we cannot accept.
This fall issue of Umac Bridges introduces you to generation Y. Particularly we focus on people born in the 1990s. These young people, including us, Meh Production, have started or are about to exert influence on society. You may have certain stereotypes on different generations. However, I believe you will have a new perspective or a deeper understanding of generation Y in Macao after reading this issue. All these stories help you as well as ourselves discover what we are.
Umac Bridges is a campus publication as well as an academic project produced by 4th year English Communication students in the Department of Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau (UM).
Through this publication, students can apply skills of journalism, desktop publishing, web design and event planning and implementation which they have learned throughout the academic years to an actual project. The aim of this publication is to cultivate the sense of news of UM students and call their attention to issues happening around them. The magazine also has an online version which experiments with some multimedia news stories.
On behalf of our production team, I would like to give special thanks to our course instructor, Prof. Wu Mei and our teaching assistant, Elsa Ip for their full support. Our gratitude also goes to all the people who have helped in producing this publication.
Last but not least, I hope every one of you will enjoy this issue of Umac Bridges and keep supporting us.
Chief Editor,
Kam Leong