🟨 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 44.
According to the author’s perspective, it can be concluded that
🄰 future families tend to raise more nonchalant children compared to their own generation.
🄱 the text reveals an abrupt habit changing between generations that impacts straight on family bonds.
🄲 there is a real concern on how the evolution of technology has kept people apart from their family tree.
🄳 although the new generation is not always in contact with their parents, there is a labor of maintaining the family’s closeness.
Gabarito: 🄱
🧭 1️⃣ Leitura orientada
O texto articula a aceleração tecnológica, a mudança de valores e comportamentos entre gerações e o impacto direto dessas transformações nas relações familiares, especialmente no aumento do afastamento entre parentes.
📝 2️⃣ Análise técnica das alternativas
(A) ❌ Incorreta. O texto não avalia o comportamento infantil nem compara estilos de criação familiar.
🚩 Pegadinha: inferência psicológica sem base textual.
(B) ✅ Correta. O autor mostra que mudanças abruptas de hábitos e valores entre gerações, impulsionadas pela tecnologia, impactam diretamente os vínculos familiares. ✔ Síntese fiel do argumento central.
(C) ❌ Incorreta. Embora a tecnologia seja citada como fator de mudança, o texto não afirma que ela, isoladamente, afastou pessoas da família.
🚩 Pegadinha: causalidade simplista.
(D) ❌ Incorreta. O texto não menciona esforço ativo de manutenção da proximidade familiar; ao contrário, destaca rupturas e afastamentos.
🚩 Pegadinha: leitura otimista não sustentada.
⚠️ 3️⃣ Armadilhas clássicas da AFA
• Generalizações sem apoio textual
• Redução indevida de causa complexa
• Inferência contrária ao tom do autor
🧠 4️⃣ Resumo B3GE™ Master
✔ Mudanças geracionais aceleradas
✔ Tecnologia altera hábitos e valores
✔ Impacto direto nos laços familiares
🔎 Gabarito confirmado: (B)