The Millennials Generation

1982, the year that began the millennial generation. The beginning of all the self-centered, greedy, lazy, and “special” generation. The list of traits associated with millennials is never-ending, which coincides with the changes millennials have made in the past couple of years. Being a part of the millennial generation, leads them to say positive characteristics about millennials. We might be described as being one of the most successful and driven generation, but that we are impatient. Even though we might think highly of ourselves, we are able to see past all the positive traits and see that we are not the best generation to ever exist. In “The Millennial Muddle” by Eric Hoover, we are introduced to with the idea that millennials are “smart, …show more content…
These are core traits that have become associated with millennials and other anthropologists have different views on this statement made by the Howe and Strauss. Richard H. Mullendore states, “Their battles have not been similar to anything those other students have faced.” Supporting Howes’s statement on millennials being special, we are led to believe that millennials are special because they have not only caused new experiences for their own generation, but for the past generations living among us. This leads us to believe that we are entitled. Jean M. Twenge, says, “Facebook and other social media have fed a bonfire of vanity among young people.” The millennial generation is the one that has created all these platforms for interacting and expressing ourselves to others around the world. She also states that the rise in all this talk about millennials being special has started the ““self-esteem movement”, which has led to a rise in narcissism.” All the social media apps and websites have influenced this rise in egoistic attitude, but this has to do with the fact that even other generations focus their attention to millennials. Susanna Wolff states, “when every commercial is marketed to you, it feeds the idea that everything revolves around you”, which explains where this rise in narcissism is emerging from. Millennials have …show more content…
Neil Howe and William Strauss state, “their life mission will not be to tear down old institutions that don’t work, but to build up new ones that do.” Millennials are going to be changing the world by simply improving old parts of society or developing ideas fully. According to the article “Millennials: How The Most Judged Generation Is Going To Save the World”, “approximately 60 percent of us (millennials) believe we are personally responsible for leaving the world better than we inherited it.” Many assume that since millennials believe they are special, they only think about themselves and not others, but “every year, the incoming freshman class is more accomplished than the last.” Students are being involved in a various of extracurricular activities ranging from being in the school productions or concerts to academic clubs and sports teams. Since millennials are reaching for better ideas to improve society they “possess buoyant optimism and supreme confidence in their own abilities.” Millennials are bound to think highly of themselves if they are leaving an impact on society. With all these ideas, ““Millennials have loftier dreams—and the potential for steeper disappointments—than their predecessors.” Even though millennials are creating a positive atmosphere for the upcoming generations and making life easier for generations before us, there are some people