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| Posted: September 18, 2007 |
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Generation Next is a term for the 42 million 16-to-25 year olds who watched the Twin Towers collapse, experienced the shootings at Virginia Tech University, grew up online and statistically speaking are better educated than any other generation in history. |
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| Marina Tiscareno from Humble, Texas, asks: |
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| As a Hispanic, I felt very disappointed with your program. I think it was unfair to how only Hispanic and black young people who were disadvantaged. Why didn't you include caucasians who were unsuccessful? |
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| Judy Woodruff responds: |
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 Thanks for your comment and questions; we did interview successful Hispanic and African American young people across the country, and we profiled several of them in the first hour of Generation Next, which aired in January 2007. It is available here and can be downloaded. We profiled, among others, Harvard undergraduate Adora Mora, who is from a family of Nigerian immigrants; Gabe Ballejos, an Army sergeant who has served two tours of duty in Iraq; Aleesha Hardin, a student at the University of Alabama, who is working full-time at a non-profit agency; and Doan Phan, who is a college graduate and is now a hospital X-ray technician. Each one represents an ethnic minority in the United States, and each is excelling in his or her educational and professional pursuits. There were many other outstanding young Hispanic, African American and Asian American young people whose paths crossed ours, and we tried to give a fair portrayal of them all between the two documentary hours.
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