🔖 AFA 2025 — Inglês | Questão 43 Comentada — 🏛️ B3GE™
TEXT II – Directions: Read text II to answer questions 39–45.
Generational conflict
(...) The generations are turning over faster than ever before. While the Silent generation (1925 to 1945) was a strech of 21 years, the Millennial generation (1980 – 1994) ended just 15 years after it began. As technological change accelerates, people born a mere ten years apart can be released into an utterly different environment. A person born into the era of the smartphone, for example, will exhibit different behaviours to one who predates it, helping explain those teenagers lip-syncing pop songs and pacing out dance trots in supermarkets and carparks. Technology, like the television, the internet, and the smartphone, have a marked effect on not only how we live but on our values and beliefs. (...)
In his 2020 book Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them, Karl Pillemar surveyed 1,340 Americans aged 18 and over, asking them the question: “Do you have any family members from whom you are currently estranged?” He discovered that more than a quarter of Americans, surveyed, or 27 per cent, reported being estranged from a family member – a parent, grandparent, sibling, child, and so on. Extrapolated to the US adult population, that amounts to some 67 million people who are estranged from a family member. Pillemar found that ten per cent are estranged from a parent or child and eight per cent are no longer talking to a sibling. Some in the media are calling it a “silent epidemic” of family break-ups.
“When we meet people, it’s devastating to tell the truth,” Skye Ferrero laments, a mother quoted in Pillemar’s book. “We deal with it by being straightforward: ‘Oh, there are problems... we don’t see each other’.” Five years ago, Skye and her husband were cut off from their daughter and nothing they have done since has brought the couple any closer to her. “I’ve been approached by former neighbours and they say, ‘Well, you seem like such nice people. How come it’s like this? We’ve been labelled with this black cloud.’” Skye thinks the issue is more widespread than it appears, it’s just that people don’t wish to talk it. “This is happening in many families,” she says.
Family estrangement can happen for any number of reasons, notwithstanding highly justifiable ones for why someone may wish to cut contact. But such serious offenses aside, fissures in the nuclear family can also happen as family members squabble over rival ideologies: politics, Brexit, vaccinations, conspiracy theories, pronouns, and any number of headline-grabbing social issues. Nasty comments on social media can inflame grievances, prompting one member to declare, “I’m done. I never want to see or speak to them again.”
🔗 Adapted from: https://www.newphilosopher.com/articles/generationalconflict (accessed on March 21st, 2024).
43. The “silent epidemic” (l. 28) talks about the
[A] amount of people who gave up becoming parents.
[B] alarming number of people who lost track of relatives.
[C] increasing number of divorces before the 10th anniversary.
[D] families becoming smaller and smaller with the decrease in births.
💡 Gabarito: (B)
🧭 1️⃣ Leitura orientada da questão
A questão cobra a interpretação da expressão metafórica “silent epidemic”, usada para resumir um fenômeno social descrito quantitativamente no texto.
O parágrafo anterior apresenta dados numéricos elevados sobre pessoas afastadas de familiares próximos.
📝 2️⃣ Análise técnica das alternativas (uma a uma)
[A] ❌
Incorreta. O texto não aborda desistência da parentalidade,
mas afastamento entre membros já existentes da família.
[B] ✅
Correta. A expressão refere-se ao alto e crescente número
de pessoas que estão estranhadas de parentes,
muitas vezes sem que o tema seja discutido publicamente.
[C] ❌
Incorreta. Divórcios não são mencionados no trecho
nem relacionados à expressão em questão.
[D] ❌
Incorreta. A diminuição do tamanho das famílias
ou da taxa de natalidade não é tema do texto.
⚠️ 3️⃣ Armadilhas clássicas da banca
A banca utiliza metáforas fortes (“epidemic”) para testar se o candidato identifica o fenômeno real descrito nos dados, e não associações externas.
❗ Regra de ouro: sempre relacione expressões metafóricas ao parágrafo imediatamente anterior.
🧠 4️⃣ Resumo B3GE™ Master
✔ “Silent epidemic” = fenômeno amplo, mas pouco discutido.
✔ Refere-se ao afastamento familiar em massa.
✔ Sustentado por dados estatísticos do texto.
🔎 Gabarito confirmado: (B)
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