Name: 為什麼 "千禧一代 "這個詞讓我感到噁心？ (Why the Word "Millennial" Makes me Cringe)
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過去簡單式

sitting next to a young woman, maybe 23 years old

Over the course of the flight, talking to her, I discovered that she does this flight a lot

And the last two years, she has taken this same flight a hundred and fifty times.

She didn't like the flying, she did it for her job and her job...

she didn´t seem to like that much either

But she'd gotten a degree, so that she could get a good job and it had worked

and now she is working in a company where there are opportunities for advancement

But not unless you have more than five years of experience

and as miserable as spending this much time in the middle seat in coach sounds to me,

she was fine, she was happy, she was working her butt off doing a job that she didn't find that interesting, but she wanted a good life and she was willing to wait for it.

John I present to you: an American millennial

Universally ridiculed as entitled and self-centered

But in fact understanding the world in deeply different ways than previous generations

with new and unique pressures on their identity

and tasked with dealing with problems unlike anything our economy, and our country, and our world has ever seen.

During this week's recording of "Dear Hank and John" you told me

about an article you wrote for the World Economic Forum

Entitled "Why the Word Millennial Makes me Cringe", and I immediately ran to

go read that article as soon as we were done recording

because yeah, the word "millennial" totally

makes me cringe. Among a ton of good points you make

in this article, you mentioned that the word "millennial"

was not assigned to themselves by themselves.

in articles and op-eds by other people who weren't millennials

One: made sweeping generalizations about the most diverse group of young people in American history

was acting in a way that they did not expect them to

about what these unknowable snake people are doing to America

one group of people created a term for another group of people

to talk about how scary they were and belittle them

yeah, that's gonna make some people cringe

of course the original definition of millenial

it was separate from all of this other like

let's use that term now to talk about how weird young people are

but it does not change that it's happened

to intelligibly talk about generational trends

like the idea that millennials are the first generation to have grown up with the internet

blindly ignores the fact that there are still

young people in America who don't have access to the internet

and in general these conversations tend to

replace the reality of the "young American"

that people who have opinions professionally tend to interact with"

all of this kind of makes me cringe a little bit

we so rarely talk about the actual challenges

that young people in America face right now

many young people these days have been told

but to find a good job that is also extraordinarily impactful and meaningful

they might as well also find themselves in a perfect relationship

now I don't want to be mad at anybody for any of these things

these people are just trying to get clicks

'cause when it comes down to it, previous generations worked really hard

whether that's the fact that gay people can get married

or that I can get all of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

and the rest of Netflix for just $7.99 per month

or that cars are much less likely to kill people now

and also just put a tremendous amount of pressure

that's not the easiest thing to deal with

not least with things not turning out as planned

that one of the chief complaints of the older generation

this generation that worked so hard to make life easier for their kids

especially when it's increasingly clear that they don't