How Millennials respond to this challenge will determine what role the U.S. will play in the region when this generation ascends into the highest echelons of American leadership.
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This voice is just one of many in a region where a new generation is refusing to be denied their rights and opportunities any longer.
We can do that in this diocese, and region, over the next generation or so.
It did because it captured the fundamental spirit of the region, as exemplified by that first generation of semiconductor entrepreneurs.
However, Lynn Stephen of the University of Oregon, who has studied the Zapotecs of the Teotitlan del Valle region for 27 years, does not think there is a generation gap.
In this context, the Conference constituted one of the instances that were carried out worldwide (Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and Pacific Ocean, Arabic States) expecting to mobilize for the local actors and to act as catalyst for the generation of contributions that reflect specific characteristics of every region.
No doubt Mr Abbas, who is part of that generation of Arab leaders now feeling the heat of frustration across the region, hopes that he can seize the initiative, gaining popular support in the process.
Sub-Saharan Africa, on the other hand, will fall short of all of the goals, even though its economy is growing quicker than it has for a generation and it is putting children in school faster than any other region.
First, its mountainous nature means that various regions have had to be largely independent in electricity generation, so while there are regional power importers and exporters, no region is wholly dependent upon any other.
Is there any city, community or region that can possibly compete with its stunning record of innovation, creativity, and wealth generation?
If its next generation is to benefit fully from what today's is building, the region's schools must get an upgrade, too.
Ghubash said her grandmothers' generation contributed far more to the politics, economy, education and literature of the region than has been recognized.
In a region where nearly two-thirds of the population is under the age of 30, an emerging generation is struggling to reconcile convention with a unique vision for their future.
Bouazizi was part of a younger generation that saw no future and he came from the interior of the county, a region long neglected and the object of contempt, Goldstein said.
We must do the difficult work today, so that years from now people will look back and say that this generation rose to the moment, prevailed in a tough fight, and left behind a more hopeful region and a safer America.
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