Below is an interesting 60 Minutes segment about “Millenials,” people born between 1980 -1995. I happen to be a member of this demographic, but I’m sort of an old man at heart (if you asked my parents, they’d confirm I’ve been yelling “get off of my lawn” since I was 3, started drinking scotch at 5, and watching Matlock by 10), so I never really felt like I fit in. Regardless, I enjoy 60 Minutes segments on youth in America because of the epic irony of anchors like the now zombified-Morley Safer reporting on wild-eyed brats with too much cash.
Is this a legitimate sociological trend or is it a media creation? Haven’t there always been a good number of people in every generation who are just spoiled brats, or is this now some sort of significant trait among 20 somethings? Can such massive social generalizations like this be made anymore given the extreme diversity of media influence, culture and the Internet? It used to be that labels could be attached to groups of youth: Gen Y, Gen X, Punks, Hippies, Greasers and backwards into time, but this was before Wikipedia existed.
Assuming there is a group of entitlement-drunk whiners still carrying around an umbilical cord, there are other groups of people my age that I’ve noticed and that are noted in this video:
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