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Young people are said to support many things, including immigration, amnesty, more government spending, etc.
They are also facing many challenges, including student loans, consumer debt, unemployment and underemployment, lacking skills. Young people face increasing competition from the global labor market.
Many things young people support are in direct contradiction to their own interests. Crowding the labor market, for instance, makes it even more difficult for young people to attain a good job, and all the good life and things they dreamed of or were told that they are entitled to.
More services in universities essentially raises the cost of education. That means, while they are getting these services (or someone else is), they are paying a higher tuition for it, essentially out of their own loan and interest, future paychecks, and retirement funds.
It certainly seems that a lot of young people are apolitical, disengaged, and very easily manipulated by external forces. They believed in what their boomer parents and teachers told them, a world where everyone is a winner. They subscribe to the technology culture. They follow the idealism taught in college. But when they meet the real world, many of them are surprisingly unadaptive. They seem to hold onto the dreams and ideals, instead of adapting to life. The irony is that these idealism is so because of young people's own status. They are not so "idealistic" for the college professors or the boomers who already made it. The professors are being paid to teach idealism. Boomers already have enough in the portfolios. In both cases, when they go home, they have comfort waiting for them. The controversial trends don't really affect them anyway. They have options. But for young people, they aren't paid to embrace idealism. They are paying to embrace it at their own cost.
What's your take on today's young people? Are they simply too confused, disengaged, and scattered to form a powerful force?
Young people are said to support many things, including immigration, amnesty, more government spending, etc.
They are also facing many challenges, including student loans, consumer debt, unemployment and underemployment, lacking skills. Young people face increasing competition from the global labor market.
Many things young people support are in direct contradiction to their own interests. Crowding the labor market, for instance, makes it even more difficult for young people to attain a good job, and all the good life and things they dreamed of or were told that they are entitled to.
More services in universities essentially raises the cost of education. That means, while they are getting these services (or someone else is), they are paying a higher tuition for it, essentially out of their own loan and interest, future paychecks, and retirement funds.
It certainly seems that a lot of young people are apolitical, disengaged, and very easily manipulated by external forces. They believed in what their boomer parents and teachers told them, a world where everyone is a winner. They subscribe to the technology culture. They follow the idealism taught in college. But when they meet the real world, many of them are surprisingly unadaptive. They seem to hold onto the dreams and ideals, instead of adapting to life. The irony is that these idealism is so because of young people's own status. They are not so "idealistic" for the college professors or the boomers who already made it. The professors are being paid to teach idealism. Boomers already have enough in the portfolios. In both cases, when they go home, they have comfort waiting for them. The controversial trends don't really affect them anyway. They have options. But for young people, they aren't paid to embrace idealism. They are paying to embrace it at their own cost.
What's your take on today's young people? Are they simply too confused, disengaged, and scattered to form a powerful force?
You got boomers, gen x, gen y and then millennials.
Did boomers have all those 3 generations after them as parents ?
Most of those millennial have gen X parents.
You got boomers, gen x, gen y and then millennials.
Did boomers have all those 3 generations after them as parents ?
Most of those millennial have gen X parents.
Generation Y are the same as Millennials. Most Millennials (1980-1994) have Boomers as parents. Generation Z is after Millennials and most probably have gen x parents.
The millennial population is so huge precisely because the boomers are their parents.
How? They are all young. Most are ignorant or flat out stupid. Add to that easily brainwashed by social media, Mother Jones, Vox, HuffPo, etc. and you have your answer.
Generation Y are the same as Millennials. Most Millennials (1980-1994) have Boomers as parents. Generation Z is after Millennials and most probably have gen x parents.
The millennial population is so huge precisely because the boomers are their parents.
Millennials and Boomers: Don't Forget Generation X*|*Christine Henseler
Most troubling is any thinking that Boomers and Millennials are "also each other's children and parents, bound together in an intricate web of love, support, anxiety, resentment, and interdependence." While some certainly are each other's parents and children, what happened to the Generation X parents who between the ages of 20 and 40 have given birth to many Millennials born between 1980 and 2000? Was the legalization of the birth control pill in 1961 so powerful?
Why has parental status and impact been thwarted when the Millennial psychology has in fact been heavily influenced by GenX life experiences and beliefs related to politics, family, class, religion, culture, technology and sexuality, among many other subjects?
Millennials and Boomers: Don't Forget Generation X*|*Christine Henseler
Most troubling is any thinking that Boomers and Millennials are "also each other's children and parents, bound together in an intricate web of love, support, anxiety, resentment, and interdependence." While some certainly are each other's parents and children, what happened to the Generation X parents who between the ages of 20 and 40 have given birth to many Millennials born between 1980 and 2000? Was the legalization of the birth control pill in 1961 so powerful?
Why has parental status and impact been thwarted when the Millennial psychology has in fact been heavily influenced by GenX life experiences and beliefs related to politics, family, class, religion, culture, technology and sexuality, among many other subjects?
I'm a GenXer and we have very little in common with millenials.
Attitudes change with each generation. It's normal. We're not foolish people just because we don't subscribe to conservative ideologies. We just see things differently and are more open to change. Whether that's a good or bad thing – I don't know – but it is what it is.
they are young dumb and full of...........well you get the idea. they will grow up and learn.
i bet. like previous generations, the smart and strategic ones will adapt and advance their own interests and quality of life. the dumb ones will hold onto their beliefs.
give it enough time. things will be different for different people.
Generation Y are the same as Millennials. Most Millennials (1980-1994) have Boomers as parents. Generation Z is after Millennials and most probably have gen x parents.
The millennial population is so huge precisely because the boomers are their parents.
Actually it's 1982-2000.
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