Now that you bring it up...
Marilyn Elias has an article in today's USA Today highlighting the results of a study about life expectations of Gen Y/Millenials vs Boomers.
The results are interesting - GenY/Millenials (compromising 18-30 year olds) except to be great at marriage, work, and school at a rate much higher than their parents. Of course, the article is full of the usual blather about the spoiled obnoxious generation "these days." I'd like to take a moment and remind folks that the Gen Y / Millenials have Boomers for parents. So don't act like "these kids" just fell out of the sky.
Beyond that, the conditions for a senior graduating from high school in 1975 are radically different from someone graduating in 2009. Ok, so they both lived through the disgrace of a sitting president. And although there were difficult economic conditions in both eras, I think for kids whose growing up years were the peaceful prosperous 90s, the current world situation is a anomaly. Perhaps for those graduating in 1975, the bad conditions were the latest in a long series of difficult post-WWII-Cold War-Vietnam-energy crisis-did-I-mention-the-Cold-War bad events.
Does the high school graduate's template for viewing the world have more to do with upbringing (ie: worldview from parents) or with world circumstances?
The results are interesting - GenY/Millenials (compromising 18-30 year olds) except to be great at marriage, work, and school at a rate much higher than their parents. Of course, the article is full of the usual blather about the spoiled obnoxious generation "these days." I'd like to take a moment and remind folks that the Gen Y / Millenials have Boomers for parents. So don't act like "these kids" just fell out of the sky.
Beyond that, the conditions for a senior graduating from high school in 1975 are radically different from someone graduating in 2009. Ok, so they both lived through the disgrace of a sitting president. And although there were difficult economic conditions in both eras, I think for kids whose growing up years were the peaceful prosperous 90s, the current world situation is a anomaly. Perhaps for those graduating in 1975, the bad conditions were the latest in a long series of difficult post-WWII-Cold War-Vietnam-energy crisis-did-I-mention-the-Cold-War bad events.
Does the high school graduate's template for viewing the world have more to do with upbringing (ie: worldview from parents) or with world circumstances?
posted by Amy M at 9:35 AM
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I'm just glad that I don't fit into the Gen Y group:-)
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