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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOver The Past Weekend I Had The Opportunity To Talk To Some Millennial's....
They thought the paint guns and bear mace in Kenosha was funny - like a fraternity prank.
One said - if it helped to stop 'those' people from rioting and looting - then it was worth it.
It is clear to me that they don't understand the BLM movement and they boil it down to plain racism.
I was taken aback when I listened to what they were saying and I've been despondent ever since.
These were - IMHO - two immature males - that remained single and are still sowing their wild oats. One is still living with his parents.
They don't have an interest in what's going on around them in this country and don't take the time to learn anything about the issues - and they probably won't be voting in November and if they do they will go against anything rational and vote for the guy nobody wants - just to be funny - as everything to them is funny.
This behavior really disturbs me and now I'm sitting back and wondering how many more are just like them out there.
Because of their immaturity - I don't think that they realize what their future will be like if they don't do something to protect their own interests.
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global1
(25,285 posts)Nielsen Media Research has defined millennials as adults between the ages of 22 and 38 years old in 2019. CNN reports that studies often use 19811996 to define millennials, but sometimes 19802000.
These two guys were 36y/o.
I'll edit my OP.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)Gen Y was renamed the Millennial generation. I stand corrected. Millennials are those who reach young adulthood, roughly, around the year 2000.
Obviously, you were talking to Millennials.
-Laelth
global1
(25,285 posts)adults between the ages of 22 and 38 years old in 2019. CNN reports that studies often use 19811996 to define millennials, but sometimes 19802000.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)I am unfamiliar with that organizations system for naming and defining generations.
Ill do my own research on this. I know this isnt what you really wanted to talk about in this thread. Sorry if I derailed the conversation.
-Laelth
global1
(25,285 posts)Laelth
(32,017 posts)Funny. Y was just a placeholder name (until we got to know them and understand them better). They came to be known as the Millennials. Z is just a placeholder (until a better name comes along).
My generation is stuck with the Xthe first generation in the history of this country to be poorer than its parents, and we dont even get a name.
-Laelth
raccoon
(31,127 posts)sweetloukillbot
(11,098 posts)So immature out there sowing their wild oats!
Tones2345
(27 posts)Married, suburban Chicago. Most of us are troubled by whats going on, but there are definitely some brainwashed morons even in my supposedly educated suburb.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)Why not just say they were in their 30s?
global1
(25,285 posts)Tink41
(537 posts)My experience they are way more progressive than late Gen xers.
Wounded Bear
(58,743 posts)It's really hard to get kids engaged in much beyond their own experience.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Yeah, bear spray and paintball guns, humorous. Stopping the rioters and looters. But let's go a step further: "Why do you suppose these people are rioting and looting? Why are these people out in the streets in the first place? What do you know about their cause, if anything?"
Tink41
(537 posts)I'm early Gen X, 53 new Grandmother. If it helps any, I've been analyzing fellow supposed Gen Xers that are about 10 yrs younger.
My observation they are nothing like the older ones. It's like they grew up in a different time, and they did. The values and thinking
are very different. Lean conservative in my opinion. Seems they marinated during Reagan.
global1
(25,285 posts)but I'm sure that there are some immature GenXer's out there too.
You know what they say:
You're only young once - but you can be immature all your life.
Regardless there are distinct differences in the generations themselves.
misanthrope
(7,432 posts)I know plenty of Gen Xers who were also influenced by the growing social consciousness in 1980s pop culture that was expressed in the music of Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, U2, Tracy Chapman and others. Other movements like the fight against South African apartheid, Live Aid and Farm Aid made an impression on them as well.
hlthe2b
(102,419 posts)this phenomenon and in fact studied it across cultures. As males reach "adulthood," traditional societies have harnessed those impulses in "rites" of passage--whether it be a dangerous mission of discovery/survival (Native Americans/ other traditional cultures), going to war (most common across cultures), or an overseas mission or volunteer experience (e.g., Mormons, some, especially Israeli Jews-- and other religions) and less formalized American traditions (e.g., Peace Corps, Americorps, etc). Many immigrant families have tried to maintain some form of this-- while not letting their children become inured to sacrifice-- by sending them on an informal volunteer experience to less advantaged areas of the world. I've always thought this to be a fantastic idea.
She placed a lot of societal ills and what she described as "stunted/delayed maturation" among young men at the loss of such traditional rites (though obviously not bemoaning fewer wartime experiences). Obviously some form of this is seen in young women as well, but usually without the violent or semi-violent impulses/fantasies.