“…Growing up during Taiwan's economic boom era, they have little knowledge of the hardship and physical labour to which their parents were accustomed and are seen by employers as poor workers, who are so soft that they burst when under pressure like a strawberry (Cole, 2008;Liu, 2010). Much of their lack of perseverance and inability to handle stress is a direct result of overprotection by their parents (Buchan, 2008). The fact that this generation has known only democracy has been suggested to result in a lack of political consciousness (Keating, 2010;Yu, 2005).…”