Millennials: The Importance Of Diversity In Our Society

Every day, whether you are listening to the radio, watching TV, or even at school you will hear someone or a group of people talking about my generation (the Millennials) and how screwed or ignorant we are. In some ways they are right, but are we really as incompetent as they think? We know more about technology than our parents and grandparents, we are creative and optimistic when it comes to work, and we have a better understanding with the need to help others. Also, we stay connected to social media (which is both exceptional and atrocious) allowing us to know when something happens the moment it happens, and we accept and celebrate diversity. Even with the high cost of college, the stress of college, and the little possibility to get a …show more content…
In this day and age people need to be open and accepting of others and the changes going on in society. My generation does exactly that. We are almost always accepting of diversity and other changes within our society, we do not fight it, we do all we can to embrace it. We try and stay open-minded because we have grown up in a time where drastic changes are happening all the time, allowing us to be accepting towards gay marriage, different races/sexes, etc. which all in all makes us a diverse generation. Millennials also have a better understanding with the need to help others. They are statistically known for taking part in work related to social …show more content…
Being as connected as we are, we know when a tragedy, disaster, or a sports draft occurs almost immediately. Allowing us to stay up-to-date on what’s going on around us and how we should act or express ourselves. Also, it gives us access to promote campaigns, advertise, and educate all those who are also connected. Enabling people to be well informed on what they may be eating, voting for, paying for, or learning. There are obviously some cons to being so connected to social media as well, but that’s not what we are here to talk about. My generation is not all lazy, ignorant, and selfish. In an abundance of ways we may be superior to other generations. I have clearly shown just a small taste as to why my generation is not as unsuccessful as an abundance may think, yes there are numerous cons to my generation, but that’s all generations it’s just that mine is the one most talked about so the older generations can blame someone. Overall, society is stuck with us and we are the future, it will change to how we see fit and that’s