According to the numerous sources I researched, I am definitely NOT a 'Millennial'. I was born born in 1963 and I am currently 44 years-old. Apparently this means that I am considered a Gen-X person...whatever that means. Millennials were born between the years of 1980 and 2000, well after my birthdate. According to a report on the CBS show 60 Minutes, millennials are considered to be self-centered and have not had to deal with failure : http://http//www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/11/08/60minutes/main3475200.shtml
And even though they are highly skilled at hi-tech devices and real-time communication, they don't alway deal well with figures of authority. (I know this because I've hired and managed and fired a number of that generation. I also have a 19 year-old daughter.)
Another source states that millennials consider the number problem in the U.S. is selfishness....http://www.generationsatwork.com/articles/millenials.htm
The source also praises them for volunteering... then follows it up noting that it iis a requirement in many schools. Sounds like an oxymoron... 'mandatory volunteering'.
Of course becuase most of the media is admittedly liberal http://www.mediaresearch.org/biasbasics/biasbasics1.asp
they are far less likely to be critical of the millennials...especially because they are millennials themselves. They want to 'strengthen' the political system and don't think the governement is wasteful. To me it sounds as hollow as a Barak Hussein Obama speech touting 'a change we can believe in'... all of it is lacking in validity and is borderline nonsense.
In my opinion, they are the most self-centered generation...ever! And I blame it on their parents for raising them to not experience and grow from failure. They seem to have a sense of entitlement that they were raised with. Whether it's a soccer game where no score is kept, or a teacher not allowed to use a red pen to correct a term paper, they have been conditioned to value their self-esteem above all else. And, while I can see some validity in that perspective, it had only hurt them in the long run. And, since most of these slackers are liberal democrats, it will only hurt the USA in the long run.
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Good, but work on integrating the links into your text.
Some characteristics of Generation X (lifted from Wikipedia): a generation of teenagers who "sleep together before they are married, don't believe in God, dislike the Queen, and don't respect parents; the angst of those born between roughly 1960 and 1965, who felt no connection to the cultural icons of the baby boom generation; people who wanted to hop off the merry-go-round of status, money, and social climbing that so often frames modern existence; overtones of cynicism against things held dear to the previous generations; they possess only a hazy sense of their own identity but a monumental preoccupation with all the problems the preceding generation will leave for them to fix.
Do you identify with that description? (I sure do!)
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