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词条 Waithood
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Waithood (a portmanteau of "wait" and "adulthood") is a period of stagnation in the lives of young unemployed college graduates in various industrializing and developing nations or regions, primarily in the Middle East, North Africa (MENA) and India, where their expertise is still not widely needed or applicable. "Waithood" is described as "a kind of prolonged adolescence",[1] and "the bewildering time in which large proportions of youth spend their best years waiting". It is a phase in which the difficulties youth face in each of these interrelated spheres of life result in a debilitating state of helplessness and dependency. One commentator argues, waithood can be best understood by examining outcomes and linkages across five different sectors: education, employment, housing, credit, and marriage.[2]

Waithood is applicable only to college educated people who are not compelled to settle in blue collar jobs due to the support from family elders or resources. Due to the lack of any potential employment, waithood is also tangentially related to rising rate of belated parenthood in various developing countries, with younger people choosing to delay or being forced to delay starting their own families, likes of which were uncommon in the modern industrialized countries when they were developing.[3][4]

See also

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  • Boomerang Generation
  • Dead-end job
  • Demographic transition
  • Emerging adulthood
  • Education in the Middle East and North Africa
  • Involuntary unemployment
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  • Freeters
  • Hikikomori
  • Middle East Youth Initiative
  • NEET
  • Parasite single
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  • Population pyramid
  • Precariat
  • Twixter
  • Youth exclusion
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References

1. ^Diane Singerman, "Thirty and Single, Coping with Delayed Marriage", The Middle East Youth Initiative (February 2008){{Dead link|date=March 2019}}
2. ^Navtej Dhillon, "Middle East Youth Bulge: Challenge or Opportunity?", The Brookings Institution (May 2008){{Dead link|date=March 2019}}
3. ^"Understanding Waithood", Middle East Youth Initiative{{Dead link|date=March 2019}}
4. ^Hilary Silver, "Social Exclusion: Comparative Analysis of Europe and Middle East Youth", Middle East Youth Initiative Working Paper (September 2007)
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External links

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  • Fountain of Youth, Gulf News, January 2008
  • Young and Out of Work in the Middle East, ABC News, December 2007
  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlggecnjOY0 Mohamed Ali: The link between unemployment and terrorism], TED talk November 2013
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