2.  As a phrase, “lost generation” is
composed of the adjective “lost” and
the noun “generation”
 Here are some meaning that these words
carry in different dictionaries:

3.  The phrase “Lost Generation” translates in
Macedonian – “Изгубената генерација”.
 According to the Digital Dictionary of the
Macedonian Language, „изгубен“,
„изгуби“ means:

4. 1. Someone left without something of a material nature
(Ги изгубив клучевите)
2. Someone who is out of reach (biologically)
(Го изгубив од вид)
3. To lose a capacity to do something or use something
(Го изгуби слухот)
4. Remain without someone due to death (Изгубивме добар другар)
5. To lose a job, entertainment, war etc. (Изгуби на карти)
6. To disappear without a trace (Сонцето се изгуби над
хоризонтот)
7. To faint or to lose mind (Девојката сосема се изгуби)
8. To become unreasonable (Во новата ситуација, тој сосема се
изгуби)

5.  The “Digital Dictionary of the Macedonian
Language” provides the following meanings for
“Generation”:
 Generation, offspring, people of common
interest, people of the same age, people with
similar beliefs and living in some period of time

6.  Dictionary.com defines “lost” as follows:
 no longer possessed or retained: lost friends.
 no longer to be found: lost articles.
 having gone astray or missed the way; bewildered as to place,
direction, etc.: lost children.
 not used to good purpose, as opportunities, time, or labor; wasted:
a lost advantage.
 being something that someone has failed to win: a lost prize.
 ending in or attended with defeat: a lost battle.
 destroyed or ruined: lost ships.

7.  Dictionary.com defines “generation” as follows:
 the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time:
the postwar generation.
 the term of years, roughly 30 among human beings, accepted as the
average period between the birth of parents and the birth of the
offspring.
 a group of individuals, most of whom are the same approximate age,
having similar ideas, problems, attitudes,
 a group of individuals belonging to a specific category at the same
time: Chaplin belonged to the generation of silent-screen stars.
 a single step in natural descent, as of human beings, animals, or
plants.
 a form, type, class, etc., of objects existing at the same time and
having many similarities or developed from a common model or
ancestor (often used in combination): a new generation of anticancer
drugs; a third-generation phone.

8.  In the “Dictionary of Russian Language” by
Dmitry Ushakov, printed in 4 parts from 1935 –
1940, there are three meanings of “lost”
(«потерять»):
1. to lose
2. to be sad
3. one who is without hope

9.  The New Dictionary of Russian Language (Новый словарь
русского языка. Толково-словообразовательный) by Tatyana
Efremova, printed in 2000, “lost” comes with a new
meaning:
 One who hasn’t found his place in
life; who doesn’t know what he is
doing
 One who is mentally disordered

10.  In the “Dictionary of Contemporary Serbian Literary
Language” (Речник савременог српског књижевног језика)
by Milosh Moskovljevik (published in 2000), under
“generation” (поколење) we found the following
meaning:
 People of the same age
 Whilst under “lost” (изгубити):
 To stay without something
 To forget something
 To lose a competition, war
 To lose value
 To be out of your mind

11.  In “Rječnik hrvatskoga jezika” by Vladimir Anić
(published in 1998), under the term “generacija” we
found the following meaning:
 Everything that belongs to a certain age or has
appeared in roughly the same time on this world
 Whilst under the term “izgubjlen”:
 Someone who is lost
 One who does not accommodate to circumstances
 Helpless, disoriented

12.  In „Речник на думите в българския език“
(rechnik.info), „изгубен“ brought the following
synonyms:
 загубен, прахосан, разпилян, пропилян, погубен,
пропаднал, пожертвуван, провален, неморален,
безнадежден, безизходен, отчайващ, заблуден,
бездомен, безстопанствен, загинал, умиращ,
отслабнал
 (Lost, immoral, wasted, scattered, squandered,
executed, failed, sacrificed, immoral, hopeless,
desperate, homeless, stray, perished, dying, weak
 „Поколение“ brought up the same meanings as in
other languages.

13.  The term “generation” is a subject to more approaches
– from biological, social, psychological, historical and
political point.
 From a biological stand point, all persons born within a
specific period of time are considered members of a
certain "generation", but the psychological point of
view does not define that all persons born in a certain
chronological age are part of a a "group“ - only
certain individuals. It does not mean that one should
be born in a particular year or decade to be a
member of a generation. That division can only be
conditional. Members of one generation generally
have the same outlook on life and worldview.

14.  We will present the term "generation" as a separate sociocultural
group involving people of the same age, (members of this
sociocultural group have common characteristics, such as
biological and sociopolitical point of view)
 In addition, certain sociopolitical, economic and historical
developments can be a "generator" for creating a certain
"generation."
 Usually under "(lost) generation" today we mean a group of
people who have gone through difficulties in life. If we take the
historical, economic and sociopolitical developments into
account, we can say that there is a "World War II generation",
"Tito's generation," "transitional generation", "disco generation",
etc.

15.  We can come to the conclusion that "lost generation" is
used for a generation that is:
 “run over by circumstances“
 “who’s tradition is disrupted”
 “people who find themselves in difficult social,
economic or political conditions”
 We cannot say that virtually all members of a
generation are “lost” - only when a certain type of crisis
affects most representatives of a particular group.

16.  Term used to describe the generation of writers active
immediately after World War I.
 Gertrude Stein used the phrase in conversation
with Ernest Hemingway, supposedly quoting a garage
mechanic saying to her, "You are all a lost generation."
 The phrase signifies a disillusioned postwar generation
characterized by lost values, lost belief in the idea of
human progress, and a mood of futility and despair
leading to hedonism.
 The mood is described by F. Scott Fitzgerald in THIS SIDE
OF PARADISE (1920) when he writes of a generation
that found "all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in
man shaken."

17.  We find the phrase “Lost Generation” to be used more
widely in Europe, than in USA
 The Balkans experienced multiple “lost generations” in
the XX and the XXI century (Balkan wars, Words War I
and II, breakup of Yugoslavia, Serbo-Croat war…)

18.  In Macedonia people born in the 1980’s and 1990’s are
considered a “lost generation”
 Reasons for this are found in the dissolution of
Yugoslavia, as well as the continuous economic and
political crisis
 Soviet Union and Russia recognize as “lost” the children
born before and after the start of Perestroika in the
Soviet Union
 From a biological point of view, the “lost generation”
on the Balkans and the former Soviet Union finds itself in
a “endogenic psychosis”, a lost of faith in the system
and in the future itself, resulting in low birth rates all over
the region

19.  The different experiences shared in various countries
and continents leave different marks and meanings of
the phrase "lost generation".
 In several examples will present how these differences
are percepted

20.  Great Britain (The Telegraph, 28.12.2014)
 Young people are 'lost generation' who can no longer
fix gadgets, warns professor
 Young people in Britain have become a lost generation
who can no longer mend gadgets and appliances
because they have grown up in a disposable world,
the professor giving this year’s Royal Institution
Christmas lectures has warned.

21.  USA (Bloomberg, 8.10.2009)
 The Lost Generation
 While unemployment is ravaging just about every part
of the global workforce, the most enduring harm is
being done to young people who can't grab onto the
first rung of the career ladder.
 For people just starting their careers, the damage may
be deep and long-lasting, potentially creating a kind of
"lost generation."

22.  Great Britain (The Guardian, 1.2.2015)
 Are we creating a lost generation with no prospects?
 New figures reveal that the GCSE gap between rich and poor
children is widening. Only one in three disadvantaged children
achieved the government’s pass target of five A* to C grade
passes, compared to 60% overall. The number of state schools that
failed to reach the minimum target has more than doubled from
the year before. Teach First, which recruits high-calibre graduates
to teach in inner-city schools, and which analysed the statistics,
described the situation as “shocking”, saying: “Things are getting
worse for poorer children instead of better.”

23.  Al Jazeera (7.9.2014)
 Syria's 'lost generation' in Lebanon
 Educated, middle-class Syrian refugees are struggling
to find jobs under a myriad of restrictions in Lebanon.

24.  World Bank (in Macedonian – 26.5.2014)
 Невработeност на младите во Југоисточна Европа:
Спречување на изгубена генерација
 “Ние сме дел од генерација која стана рекордер во
највисоката стапка на невработеност кај младите
во Босна и Херцеговина...кои се причините за
ваквата состојба и дали имаме шанса за
нормален живот?“

25.  Lentata.ru - Bulgaria (3.1.2015)
 Едно изгубено поколение
 1. Ние израснахме в години, в които чалгата беше издигната на
пиедестал, фолк певиците бяха сложното съчетание между
красива и успяла българка. Естрадата миришеше на мухъл, а
попът беше умрял. Жоро Илиев не беше мафиот, а религия,
на която всички се кланяха. Ние израснахме в години, в които
сигурност за бъдещето ти даваше не образованието, а
силиконът. Ние сме децата на едно изгубено поколение!;
 2. Това са децата на 90-те. Загледайте се хубаво в очите на
тези деца. Там ще видите всичко друго, само не вяра и
надежда, защото годините, в които израснаха им я отнеха.

26.  Блиц - Бугарија (13.5.2014)
 Георги Пирински: Имаме изгубено поколение не
само в България, а и в целия ЕС
 „Днес имаме цяло изгубено поколение не само тук,
в България, а и в целия Европейски Съюз. Поколение
без работа, без перспектива и без надежда. За да
променим това, имаме нужда от силно
представителство в Европейския парламент, което
да защитава интересите на хората.„

27.  Delo - Slovenia (25.1.2015)
 O prekarnem delu: Izgubljena generacija osemdesetih
let
 Kako naj se odločamo za prihodnost? Če visoko
izobražen človek dobi redno zaposlitev po štiridesetem,
s čim naj kupi stanovanje, zgradi hišo?

28.  Slovenske Novice - Slovenia (19.4.2015)
 Izgubljena generacija: mladi brez služb in pri starših
 Ekonomska kriza, ki Slovenijo hromi že kar nekaj let, najtežje posledice
pušča na mladih. Ustvarila je eno celo izgubljeno generacijo.
 Podatki, ki jih je objavil Eurostat, kažejo, da je med nižje izobraženimi
mladimi v Sloveniji 30 odstotkov brezposelnih. Med visokoizobraženimi
delež znaša nekaj manj kot 20 odstotkov. To vsekakor vpliva tudi na pozno
osamosvajanje. Na Švedskem in Danskem mladi na svoje odidejo že pri
starosti 20 let, na Hrvaškem je ta starost v povprečju okoli 33 let in je
najvišja med državami EU. V Sloveniji so leta 2013 moški v povprečju dom
zapustili pri 30 letih, ženske pa pri 28.

29.  Index - Croatia (18.4.2015)
 Izgubljena generacija: Mladi u Hrvatskoj žive s
roditeljima i nemaju posao
 EKONOMSKA kriza iz koje Hrvatska ne izlazi već sedmu godinu
ostavila je teške posljedice na mlađe ljude i stvorila cijelu jednu
izgubljenu generaciju.
Visoka nezaposlenost mladih rezultirala je demografskim slomom,
te imamo pad populacije, starenje stanovništva i sve veće
iseljavanje u inozemstvo. Eurostat, statistički ured Europske unije
objavio je ovog tjedna istraživanje o mladima koje je otkrilo da su
trendovi po tom pitanju u Hrvatskoj, u mnogim aspektima prilično
loši.

30.  PlanetSiol.Net - Slovenia (6.6.2014)
 Peter Debeljak: Ne maturantje, izgubljena generacija
so 30-letniki
 V najmanj zavidljivi situaciji so mladi nad 30 leti, ki niso
predmet ukrepov. So intelektualna srčika, a jih ne
znamo umestiti v družbeni razvoj. Država, ki se tukaj ne
odzove, je zame nezrela

31.  Либертас – Macedonia (23.4.2015)
 Изгубена генерација
 Генерацијата на која припаѓам и сум особено горд е т.н.
изгубена генерација.Старото добро време го фативме сосем на
крајот,а новото нѐ калеше низ многу неизвесност и проблеми.
 Тогаш наша социјална мрежа беше улицата.Некои убави работи
за кои само сме чуле од постарите генерации не стасавме да ги
искусиме.Тоа веќе беше минато,а ние како генерација бевме на
прагот на едно ново,неизвесно време.
 Со завршување на осмолетка требаше да се оди на екскурзија
низ Југославија.Кога дојде наш ред за екскурзија таа се прекина
поради почетокот на југословенската криза.
 Така почетокот на средното училиште ни се поклопува со
распадот на Југославија, се затворија границите поради војната
и крвавиот распад на старата држава...

32.  Fakulteti.mk – Macedonia (14.4.2015)
 "ПЕЧАЛБАРИТЕ" - ПРИКАЗНА НА ЕДНА ИЗГУБЕНА
ГЕНЕРАЦИЈА
 Тешка е судбата македонска, печалбарска е таа,
кaко да му било пишано на македонецот да биде
во вечна потрага по среќа. „Ех црна и крвава е
нашата печалба мајко! Уште покрвава е
сиромаштијата што не гони таму! “ – вака напиша
Антон Панов во својата „Печалбари“ уште во 1936
година. Речиси осумдесет години подоцна малку
се има променето.

33.  Фонд имени Питирима Сорокина
 "Дети перестройки" как "потерянное поколение"
 Поколение «детей перестройки» появилось на свет в тот драматичный
момент нашей истории, когда «некогда наилучшая страна стала
наихудшей». Во времена стремительно меняющегося настоящего, не
было времени думать о будущем. Социальная катастрофа,
сопоставимая по своей разрушительной силе с гражданской войной
заживо похоронила все достижения советского периода. Во времена
хаоса, в условиях полнейшей ценностной дезориентации, учителями
молодёжи стали низкопробные западные фильмы, а также «злые
улицы», ставшие идеальной кузницей кадров для многочисленных
преступных группировок. Поколение 90-х оказалось лишено
элементарного представления о том, что такое хорошо, а что плохо.

34.  Комсомольская правда – Russia (11.4.2014)
 «Революцию» на Украине сделало «потерянное
поколение»
 «Мы будем стоять до конца за свою Родину! Мы свободные!»
Прикидываю, сколько лет может быть этим горячим головам - 20? 30?
Не больше. Субтильные настолько, что удивляешься, откуда силы
берутся устроить такую мясорубку. Верю, что они действительно будут
биться до конца. Они не видят другого морального выхода. За свою
жизнь они испытали столько унижения и злости, и им кажется — уйдет
«неправильное» правительство, и сгинут беды. Пружина терпения не
только сжалась, но накалилась до предела. Именно это придает
силы «бороться за свое правое дело». Это пока...
 На самом деле, сейчас Украина переходит свою точку невозврата,
за которой люди, которым сейчас от 15 до 35, будут считаться
историками потерянными поколениями. Их станет не много, а очень
много. Спасутся только те, кто сохранит рациональность мышления в
этом бедламе. А это, в основном, те, у кого крепкая семья и
постоянная работа. Много ли таких осталось на Западной Украине?

35.  РИА Новости – Russia (2.10.2014)
 Украина: чего хочет "потерянное поколение“
 На Украине подрастает новое поколение, которое
должно взяться за восстановление экономики. Но
способна ли на это молодежь, которая мечтает о
безвизовом режиме с Европой? Кто займется
восстановлением страны, если все уедут на
заработки?