Reply #38: So many times, journalists, pundits, writers, make generalizations [View All]

[raccoon]

like these:

"They are prepared to listen to leaders -- whether from the pulpit or the White House -- in ways that their parents, the boomers, did not, and that is a very new phenomenon. They believe in security rather than radicalism, political order rather than social emancipation, collective responsibility rather than personal expression."

So, let's see. The "Greatest Generation" (Tom Brokaw named them that, so of course his word is holy gospel) were hardworking, thrifty, patriotic, and dutiful.

The "baby boomers" were rebellious, materialistic, yadda, yadda.

"Generation X" are slackers, now the "Millennial Generation" are as described in the above quoted paragraph.

I don't know about you, but I'm tired of these generational stereotypes. In any generation, there are some people who fit some of these characteristics.