🟨 Texto II — Generational conflict
(...) The generations are turning over faster than ever before. While the Silent generation (1925 to 1945) was a strech of 21 years, the Millennial generation (1980 – 1994) ended just 15 years after it began. As technological change accelerates, people born a mere ten years apart can be released into an utterly different environment. A person born into the era of the smartphone, for example, will exhibit different behaviours to one who predates it, helping explain those teenagers lip-syncing pop songs and pacing out dance trots in supermarkets and carparks. Technology, like the television, the internet, and the smartphone, have a marked effect on not only how we live but on our values and beliefs. (...)
In his 2020 book Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them, Karl Pillemar surveyed 1,340 Americans aged 18 and over, asking them the question: “Do you have any family members from whom you are currently estranged?” He discovered that more than a quarter of Americans, surveyed, or 27 per cent, reported being estranged from a family member – a parent, grandparent, sibling, child, and so on. Extrapolated to the US adult population, that amounts to some 67 million people who are estranged from a family member. Pillemar found that ten per cent are estranged from a parent or child and eight per cent are no longer talking to a sibling. Some in the media are calling it a “silent epidemic” of family break-ups.
“When we meet people, it’s devastating to tell the truth,” Skye Ferrero laments, a mother quoted in Pillemar’s book. “We deal with it by being straightforward: ‘Oh, there are problems... we don’t see each other’.” Five years ago, Skye and her husband were cut off from their daughter and nothing they have done since has brought the couple any closer to her. “I’ve been approached by former neighbours and they say, ‘Well, you seem like such nice people. How come it’s like this? We’ve been labelled with this black cloud.’” Skye thinks the issue is more widespread than it appears; it’s just that people don’t wish to talk it. “This is happening in many families,” she says.
Family estrangement can happen for any number of reasons, notwithstanding highly justifiable ones for why someone may wish to cut contact. But such serious offenses aside, fissures in the nuclear family can also happen as family members squabble over rival ideologies: politics, Brexit, vaccinations, conspiracy theories, pronouns, and any number of headline-grabbing social issues. Nasty comments on social media can inflame grievances, prompting one member to declare, “I’m done. I never want to see or speak to them again.”
Adapted from: https://www.newphilosopher.com/articles/generationalconflict
🟨 QUESTÃO 39.
According to the first paragraph, it is correct to say that
🄰 as time passed, the technology has been a loss in several aspects on the younger generation.
🄱 the transition to a new technological era highlights a generational conflict between individuals from the same family core.
🄲 there is no relevant changing between both generations. Therefore technological advance influences people’s ideologies.
🄳 due to the advance of the technology, the current generation has been showing a divergent comportament from their ancestors.
Gabarito: 🄳
🧭 1️⃣ Leitura orientada
O primeiro parágrafo descreve como a aceleração tecnológica faz com que gerações nascidas com poucos anos de diferença cresçam em contextos totalmente distintos, resultando em comportamentos, valores e crenças divergentes. Não há julgamento positivo ou negativo — apenas constatação.
📝 2️⃣ Análise técnica das alternativas
(A) ❌ Incorreta. O texto não afirma que a tecnologia trouxe “loss” ou prejuízo aos jovens.
🚩 Pegadinha: inserir juízo de valor inexistente.
(B) ❌ Incorreta. O primeiro parágrafo não menciona conflito familiar, apenas diferenças geracionais.
🚩 Pegadinha: antecipação temática de parágrafos posteriores.
(C) ❌ Incorreta. A alternativa é contraditória: nega mudança relevante e, ao mesmo tempo, afirma influência ideológica.
🚩 Pegadinha: incoerência lógica disfarçada de linguagem formal.
(D) ✅ Correta. Resume fielmente a ideia central: avanço tecnológico gera comportamentos distintos entre gerações.
⚠️ 3️⃣ Armadilhas clássicas da AFA
• Julgamento de valor inexistente no texto
• Mistura indevida de parágrafos
• Alternativas logicamente incoerentes
🧠 4️⃣ Resumo B3GE™ Master
✔ Tecnologia acelera mudanças
✔ Gerações vivem contextos distintos
✔ Comportamentos divergem
🔎 Gabarito confirmado: (D)