The Importance Of The Millennial Generation

The issues discussed in class: safe space and trigger warnings, coddling of the American mind are relevant to the generational group of Millennials. The media tends to showcases us, the millennials, in a negative light and describes us as overly sensitive. Our generation wants a warning towards hate words or topics that deal with abuse. Conversely the people that are against trigger warnings can be described as insensitive.

Millennials are young humans who develop themselves in a foreign place called adulthood. In this generation, millennials are pressured to grow at the pace of other peers. This creates a constant flow of stress, which was not as remarkable in previous generations. Thus the progression of society is at an impasse. I agree with Simon Sinek’s arguments with the split of four areas in focus of parenting, technology, patience, and environment.

I am a millennial. I love my phone, my laptop, and I love electronics. I document what I eat, I take selfies, and I watch all my favorite celebrities through Twitter and instagram. I embrace my biracial life and I am extremely tolerant of differences. I am driven to overcome negative stereotypes about religion, race, gender, and sexual orientation. I am confident in my ability to succeed and I am confident I can reach

Ben Shapiro argues that “[millennials are] less likely to help the environment, less likely to ‘say they wanted a job that was helpful or worthwhile to society’” (“7 Reasons Millennials are the Worst Generation” online). However, it is clear to see that is not the case. Millennials are willing to do more than what is necessary to help their surroundings; they will go far above than what is expected by their seniors to protect their peers and create a community that is safe for everyone. Some may insist that this is for the best and it is creating a better future, but that is not the case. Parents pampered these university students as children. Now adults, they see the world as a place that needs sharp improvement, yet the way they want to help it is ill-conceived. Clarence Page writes in the Chicago Tribune, “There are no ‘safe spaces’ against offensive ideas, especially in places that are intended to expose us to the world, not to hide from it” (“Salman Rushdie” online). University campuses are meant to challenge students but kids appear to be reluctant to face said challenges. As mentioned, this is thanks to their parents. Children are now growing up on the idea that everyone gets a trophy; there are no bad ideas and everyone’s self-esteem is protected (“For Thin-Skinned Students” online). This is a dangerous concept that, as shown in the present, can

The millennial generation or generation y has been a generation under heavy scrutiny. Many of their critics consider them entitled, self absorbed, and lazy at best. However, the subjective narrative that seems to be often painted by their predecessors always seemed a bit iffy. Are millennials really a generation full of narcissistic and disengaged persons, with a sprinkle of hedonism served as their philosophical backdrop? Or is the tension felt amongst the differing age groups another classic case of my generation did it better? “Us Vs Them”, if you will. Nevertheless, there has been a multitude of controversial articles spawned out of debate and attempts to validate these widespread claims. For instance, when Joel Stein wrote about the Millennials supposedly narcissistic traits in his contentious article “The New Greatest

In an era where our nation is so polarized and angry, at least one naive fool would conjecture that the young generation is working to bridge the divide. Unfortunately, the opposite is the case. In reality, we have been brainwashed by a new, politically correct culture. That culture shuns complex thought, and makes dissent from the PC mainstream punishable by shunning, yelling, and attempts to silence. Rather seek new ideas, we shut ourselves in. We have essentially become triggered, due to a failure of building up immunity to honest criticism. Clearly, there is a single idea which one can gather from this: We are the Triggered Generation.

From the kid of a refugee working at a 7-Eleven to save money for college to the African-American single mother waiting tables for tips, millenials are too diverse for the reductive hipster stereotype. The majority of millennials aren’t privileged, white, and middle-class, Hawking reminds readers.

Are we the most sensitive generation of all time? Many people in our society think that our generation is so hypersensitive about everything. We are not hypersensitive to everything instead it is because we can obtain information so easily today that we as students fear that power. We learn about all these different things that can potentially hurt or offend some people on the internet so we try to not use this power. Thus, this forms a group of words that are regarded as taboo in society because they can trigger the emotions of others Thus, trigger warnings were created to help provide students on campus a safe space to not be affected by society, but is that good for the students? Recently, an article called “The Coddling of the American Mind” by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt states, “Trigger warnings are alerts that professors are expected to issue if something in a course might cause a strong emotional response” (Lukianoff 1). In their article, they counter the idea of trigger warning stating that avoiding or using trigger warnings would not help students instead we should help them slowly adapt to these extreme situations and word choice because they will not move on from that issue unless addressed. While another article, “The Trigger Warning Myth” by Aaron R. Hanlon redefines trigger warnings as something that should be use in a college setting because professors uses trigger warnings to remind the students the graphic content of the course. Both articles provide

I hope to accomplish in this piece the juxtaposition of showing how many images and articles that consider the millennial generation to be a passive and egocentric while I speak passionately about stories and topics that affect this generation. Those of the millennial generation are even quick to categorize their peers as being all of these terrible adjectives because that’s what’s been told to them. I hope to cause the audience to question if we should believe labels that are placed upon them or to think more critically why these labels are given to

Millennials are the generation with the biggest hearts and most compassion. They are improving many racial problems we have today in america by using social media to raise awareness and show support all over the world. This is helping preserve culture and the language of the nations. They are doing this by using hashtags to provide recognition and make people know to the things happening in the world. Millennials have to power to start raise consciousness about any trend they care about though social media. Social media is bettering the world and helping this generation inform people on minorities. Also using technology, emojis have been created to serve a way to represent culture in a fun and positive way. Millennials are not destroying language; they are recreating it for the

Trigger warnings have begun to be stamped on every article, television show, and novel, attempting to shield children from the potentially damaging effects of reading about actual racism and issues of rape that prevail in society, far separated from the macroaggressions they fight for (Silvergate par.8). Many people find the topic of political correctness oddly dated something that ended at the end of the 1990s with the abolishment of speech codes in every legal challenge brought against them (Lukianoff par. 5). This statement could not be more false, however, as evidenced by FIRE, a free speech advocacy group, that found, “More than half of 437 institutions surveyed last year … had restrictive speech codes; one in six confined anything that smacked of students’ free expressions to a special zone” (Hurt par. 4). When free speech, a right given to American people in the First Amendment, is limited to a small patch of grass in the corner of college campuses, citizens should be up in arms about what their education system is doing to the

Over a decade of sociological research has backed the stereotypes of around 80 million Americans born between 1980 and 2000. Teenagers and young adults have been deemed the Millennial Generation; Millennials are also being referred to as Generation Y because they come after Generation X. They are considered lazy, narcissistic, and delusional; because of this Generation Y has been under observation to uncover why growing numbers of Millennials have delayed typical adult milestones. Researchers have been working to figure out why this generation has been more prone to moving back in with their parents; as well as delaying marriage and beginning their careers.

Life in a new generation is composed of being judged. Older age groups apply false stereotypes. All generations are influenced by different scenarios resulting in their judgment and misunderstandings of new generations’ life style such as their taste in music and disrespect in the sense of talking back.

Millennials are “echo-boomers” born between the years of 1976-2004. A diverse generation of individuals continually misguided by society and stereotyped based on discernable predispositions.

I chose to write this paper about the millennials and how they are perceived in society today, as well as how this generation is much more diverse and accepting compared to past generations. I based this on two articles that touch on this subject: one is an article out of the New York Post called “More Diverse Millennial Generation Rewrites Traditions” by Reid Wilson and the other is from The Guardian called “Are Millennials as Bad as We Think?” by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic. Millennials, also known as generation Y, are the latest generation and consist of Americans born from 1980 and after. This articles discuss the differences between the millennials, and past generations such as generation X, baby boomers and the silent generation and how past generations are more religious, attached to their political parties, traditional and more trusting of others.