英国学者鲍尔·约翰逊提出,如果说60年代是美国青年的“梦幻年代”的话,那么今天的青年则在新的社会现实和结构的制约下进入了一个“现实主义”的新时代。或许,这种概括未免失之笼统,但就总体态势而言,90年代以来,随着国际社会中冷战的结束和合作与竞争、和平与发展时代的到来,美国社会内部的观念和结构不断地调整和重组,青年中激进的新左派及其校园造反风潮随之成为历史,大规模的激进政治抗议不再拥有众多的参与者和支持者,青年文化也处于新的价值调整阶段。旧的价值观和行为已被放弃,新的定位还未确立;绝大多数青年不再自认自己能够拯救美国这一日益堕落的社会,但同时他们又不愿失去 Bauer Johnson, a British scholar, put forward that if the 1960s were the “dream era” of American youth, then today’s youth have entered a new era of “realism” under the constraints of the new social reality and structure. Perhaps, this generalization has not vanished in general. However, as far as the overall situation is concerned, since the 90s, with the end of the Cold War and the cooperation and competition in the international community and the era of peace and development, the concept and structure of the society in the United States have been continuously Adjustment and reorganization, the radical new left in the youth and the revitalization of their campus have subsequently become history. Large-scale radical political protests no longer have many participants and supporters. Youth culture is also at a new stage of value adjustment. Old values ​​and behavior have been abandoned and new positions have not yet been established; the overwhelming majority of young people no longer consider themselves capable of rescuing the increasingly degraded United States, but at the same time they are reluctant to lose it