According to the text:
Millennials Are Giving Their Babies Increasingly Strange Names
Mandy Oaklander
Sept. 29, 2016
The people having the most kids in this country, Millennials, are giving their babies stranger
and stranger names. In a time when actual people are naming their children Legendary and
Sadman and Lux, that should perhaps come as no surprise.
Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University, and research assistant
Lauren Dawson analyzed the first names of 358 million babies in a U.S. Social Security
Administration database. Between 2004 and 2006, 66% of boys and 76% of girls had a name
that wasn’t one of the 50 most common names of that time period. By contrast, in 2011-2015,
72% of boys and 79% of girls had names that were not in the top 50 most popular. In the top
10 for 2015 in the U.S. were Harper, Liam, Mason, Isabella, Olivia, Ava, and Mia. Brooklyn was
ranked 31st most popular for girls across the U.S. (though not for girls in New York, where the
name didn’t rank in the top 100).
Twenge credits the rise of stranger names on our increasingly individualistic culture: one that
focuses on the self and is less concerned with social rules. “Millennials were raised with
phrases like, you shouldn’t care what anyone else thinks of you, you can be anything you
want to be, it’s good to be different, you have to love yourself first before you love anyone
else,” says Twenge. Our obsession with celebrities is also a hallmark of individualism.
Twenge found that Millennials are much more accepting of same-sex relationships and
experiences. “What we’re seeing is this movement toward more sexual freedom,” Twenge told
TIME. “There’s more freedom for people to do what they want without following the traditional,
often now seen as outdated, social rules about who you’re supposed to have sex with and
when.”
Adaptado de: http://time.com/4511927/millennials-parents-baby-names/
Acesso em: 01º outubro 2016
Millennials Are Giving Their Babies Increasingly Strange Names
Mandy Oaklander
Sept. 29, 2016
The people having the most kids in this country, Millennials, are giving their babies stranger and stranger names. In a time when actual people are naming their children Legendary and Sadman and Lux, that should perhaps come as no surprise.
Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University, and research assistant Lauren Dawson analyzed the first names of 358 million babies in a U.S. Social Security Administration database. Between 2004 and 2006, 66% of boys and 76% of girls had a name that wasn’t one of the 50 most common names of that time period. By contrast, in 2011-2015, 72% of boys and 79% of girls had names that were not in the top 50 most popular. In the top 10 for 2015 in the U.S. were Harper, Liam, Mason, Isabella, Olivia, Ava, and Mia. Brooklyn was ranked 31st most popular for girls across the U.S. (though not for girls in New York, where the name didn’t rank in the top 100).
Twenge credits the rise of stranger names on our increasingly individualistic culture: one that focuses on the self and is less concerned with social rules. “Millennials were raised with phrases like, you shouldn’t care what anyone else thinks of you, you can be anything you want to be, it’s good to be different, you have to love yourself first before you love anyone else,” says Twenge. Our obsession with celebrities is also a hallmark of individualism.
Twenge found that Millennials are much more accepting of same-sex relationships and experiences. “What we’re seeing is this movement toward more sexual freedom,” Twenge told TIME. “There’s more freedom for people to do what they want without following the traditional, often now seen as outdated, social rules about who you’re supposed to have sex with and when.”
Adaptado de: http://time.com/4511927/millennials-parents-baby-names/ Acesso em: 01º outubro 2016
Gabarito comentado
Tema central: Interpretação de texto em inglês sobre a relação entre culturas individualistas e a escolha de nomes incomuns por Millennials nos EUA.
O texto aborda uma mudança de comportamento causada pela ascensão do individualismo cultural entre os Millennials, evidenciada pela adoção de nomes cada vez mais incomuns e criativos para seus filhos. Esse fenômeno é explicado pela psicóloga Jean Twenge, que destaca como normas sociais têm perdido força diante da valorização da autonomia e do ser diferente.
Estratégia de resolução: Para interpretar questões desse tipo, é fundamental identificar esse tema central e reconhecer vocabulários-chave como individualistic culture, social rules (convenções sociais) e frases que expressem afastamento de normas tradicionais, como “you shouldn’t care what anyone else thinks of you”.
Justificativa da alternativa correta (D):
A alternativa D) In individualistic cultures people do not care much about social conventions. está correta. O texto é claro ao afirmar que “one that focuses on the self and is less concerned with social rules”, demonstrando despreocupação com as convenções sociais nas culturas individualistas. Esse ponto é reforçado toda vez que o texto aborda crenças sobre “ser diferente”, “amar a si mesmo primeiro” e “não ligar para a opinião dos outros”.
Análise das alternativas incorretas:
A) Não há no texto menção de que Dawson ache surpreendente a escolha de nomes estranhos; ela apenas auxiliou na pesquisa.
B) O texto mostra que mais meninas (79%) do que meninos (72%) ganharam nomes fora do top 50, contradizendo essa opção.
C) “Brooklyn” foi o 31º nome mais popular para meninas, não o mais popular geral. Ademais, não estava nem entre os 100 mais comuns para meninas de Nova York.
Dica de prova: Fique atento(a) a termos como not (negação), all, only. Cuidado com dados numéricos e superlativos (“most popular”, “more than”), pois costumam ser fontes comuns de pegadinha!
Resumo: A resposta correta é D: a cultura individualista está diretamente relacionada com menor preocupação com regras sociais, contexto fortemente exposto no texto. Foque nessas conexões para interpretar corretamente textos em Inglês em concursos.
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