The Millennial Generation Stereotypes

Joel Stein uses his article in TIME Magazine, “Millennials: The Me Me Me Generation” to address the underlying issues and positives of the millennial generation by using various forms of data, statistics and negativity. While he is mostly successful with his tactics, he goes to such extremes with his negativity that he loses some of his audience before he even has a chance to talk about anything else. Stein spends much of his article speaking about how the Millennial generation is lazy, however research suggests that the Millennials aren’t necessarily lazy, but are held in place for various reasons outside of their control.

Participation trophies give children the unrealistic expectation that attendance matters more than hard work and effort. This is shown by the current generation known as the Millenials; the Millenials are the individuals born from the period 1985 to present day. This generation is known for over praising children, and the result

The debate over participation trophies has become a widespread social issue in the United States, with many people unaware of the detrimental impact it has on the nation’s youth. According to a study done by Reasons Magazine 57% of Americans believe trophies should only be given out to winners. However, the younger generation; often called ‘Millennials’ tend to not agree with the majority. The Washington Post dubbed the under 25 years old age group the “participation trophy generation.” The 18-24 age group is the only group out of six that is more in favor of participation trophies rather than trophies only for winners, with the 25-34 age group in a close second. The chart provided by Reasons Magazine and Rupe polling clearly shows the younger

Although Joel Stein discusses cutting millennials slack and how they will change the world, he gives the impression of agreeing with the conception that this generation will not help advance society in any way. In the beginning of the article, it is observed that Stein uses many statistics to support generalizations placed on millennials. He notes that “narcissistic personality disorder is nearly three times as high for people in their 20s as for the generation that’s now 65 or older, according the National Institutes of health; 58% more college students score higher on a narcissism scale in 2009 than in 1982 ” (Stein 28). However, his statements become less factually based as the article shifts. Joel Stein even states, “So while the entire first half of this article is absolutely true (I had

In today’s modern world, our mindset in fashion are all based on fantasy; new brands/branding, trends and many more. We all live in a society whereby we tends to buy things that are attractive. Even though we don’t have enough money for such items such as cloths, borrowing or lending money from others would better off the cost. In fashion, a question came to mind, what type of people are mostly portrayed especially in magazine covers?

Entitlement, the belief that one is deserving or entitled to certain privileges. What does this mean in our society? Our country has become an entitlement society. Causing a negative effect not only to our generation, but to our economy as well. This culture of entitlement is teaching an entire generation to be dependant on the government. Breeding a generation with little motivation and ambition. Our country's values which say we all have the ability to earn prosperity through whatever means necessary within the law. It isn't right to take from the hard working class to give to those who aren’t in true need of government assistance.

The next generation to be examined is the Baby Boomers, the Baby Boomers were born in the early 1940’s to early 1960’s. This generation occupies a lot of top executive roles in the workforce and are not retiring as they were expected to (Levonius, 2015). The Baby Boomers were taught to grow up questioning authority and standing up for themselves when they needed to. Around the time this generation was in school there was a grade inflation in the educational system, and the Boomer’s strived to achieve these high-grade marks. Baby Boomers were taught in a linear fashion, they were taught by lecture, and the technology they had included overhead projectors and some videos (Warren, 2012). Since this generation was accustomed to trying to achieve high grades they became achievement oriented adults. Education was quite a bit different from earlier generations in this era (Olson, 2011). There was more emphasis placed on students to finish high school, and for the first time in history more students were attending college. “From both the size of the generation as well as their impact to society, Baby Boomers have strong sense of self and a desire for involvement in their world, particularly at work” (Olson, 2011). “They have a strong work ethic, and a desire to receive rewards

    In present time, many people consider Millennials an entitled generation. Entitlement is the simple belief that you have the right to something. Reasons behind this include may include the rise of technology and the influence of social media, or even their helicopter parents who overprotect them. Millennials attitudes and work ethic has also caused serious problems in the workplace, education system, and other outside aspects. Many argue on why that’s the case, which has led to in depth research, and strongly built arguments about the problem. Clearly not an entire generation has these issues, but a vast majority do. Entitled Millennials have shown a pattern in their

When hearing the term “generation Z” lots of different thoughts and stereotypes probably come to mind. People born in the years of 1995 to 2010 just missed the age where technology took over childhood, yet still made it to remember few historical events such as 9/11. Since the technology boom, Gen Z humans have many more resources than ever before. With the whole world ahead of them, they can go on to accomplish many things as long as they get passed the negative stereotypes. Generation Z has been labeled lazy, impatient, and entrepreneurial. Although most of the stereotypes are negative, there is some positive in this generation.

Stereotypes and misconceptions are seen wherever a person travels, wherever a person lives, and wherever a person sleeps--basically they are everywhere we go. Stereotypes are based on truths, that exaggerates a group and society bases the stereotype of that group. While misconceptions differ from stereotypes, misconceptions form from having stereotypes, are based from untruths and that group are incorrectly viewed by error. Stereotypes exist in order to monetize certain groups and strip them of their pride, not only are stereotypes negative, but it can be positive. Misconceptions exist due to the fact, that people do not have the level of education or the skills of critical thinking and rationalization and automatically assume without knowing

With my experiencing Millennials in the workplace, most of have this ideology that if their hands should not get dirty and if someone’s hands have to get dirty it should be done by the poor people. I am from Generation X, I can’t speak for an entire generation, but cab for myself when I say when someone from the Millennial Generation joins the workforce they will show up to work with this aura of entitlement, and when asked to perform an important task by anyone, they should not have to be the one that does because this aura of entitlement they have deems it unnecessary. This comes from Millennials receiving trophies for participating (showing up, is all they did), with sitting on the bench the majority if their participation all season, with the team they were participants in finishing last. In my day, only winners received trophies and that was because a person actually making an effort to excel at what they were participating in, and were not just a warm body taking up space, which is what Millennials are known

Entitlement is an issue that many people go through on a micro-level but is spread out on a global level. Many people, including myself, have gone through (and probably still do) a time in their life where they feel that they deserve everything because the world revolves around them. The problem with this is that you don’t deserve anything, you earn it.

With the world changing, and generations growing and trying to learn from the past, Generation Y has proven to have an entitled attitude towards life and the earth. In a study done by Christopher Alexander and James Sysko, they stated, “The Millenials seem to bring with them a hedonism, narcissism, and cavalier work ethic previously unknown in the American workforce” (63-4). With this study, it shows that the next

According to this article millennials are the going to be the largest portion of the working force by 2030. With so many millennials coming into the workforce, they bring new perspectives on interoffice relations and how an office should run. However, if they do not feel like they are being challenged or have the opportunity to grow, they feel the need to leave for another company where they can. This causes turnovers to happen more frequently than with other groups. The best way to stop these is for a more active relationship with their boss. It has been proven that the more feedback millennials receive from their bosses the more comfortable they feel in their roles and the more likely that they will stay on with the company.

Stories like this are common among the modern generation. This modern generation, generation Y or millennials, is full of ideas of entitlement and narcissism. Generation Y is the generation of participation trophies. Unfortunately, these participation trophies have had significant effects on this generation. Now, students exhibit a sense of superiority, while not performing the work to constitute that excellence (Lippmann et al. 2). Because of its detrimental cultural effects, society should discourage the everyone wins mentality in the youth environment.