What would you say are the strongest strengths that American millennials have, and what would you say are the greatest weaknesses that we have if compared to previous generations or compared to other nations millennials? Maybe some not so well known facts about us?
Glitter-Pompeii
I think one strength we have is that most of us knew a world before the internet changed every aspect of modern life. We watched the world transform while we were young enough to adapt to it, but not so young we didn't understand it. Its a unique perspective I think.
gugudan
Millennials will be powerful in the near future.
千禧一代在不久的將來(lái)會(huì)很得勢(shì)的。
I'm Gen X - a generation we seem to be skipping in national politics. We're still electing fucking baby boomers at alzheimer's age to president when the last two presidents historically should've been Gen X.
Your strength is that everyone underestimates and doubts you. You're a powerful, well educated generation. You've experienced a global recession, you've seen market manipulation and a host of other unethical things done for the sake of money. You'll make the country a better place as a result, much like the silent generation did.
I think this is the consequence of being the cohort immediately following a particularly large cohort. I remember seeing a lecture a while back that outlined a number of the ways the baby boomer generation has warped politics and policies around their own interests simply because they are so large as a voting bloc. It's unfortunate that the collateral damage is the Gen Xers.
It's hard not to be when you're constantly told when you're growing up that if you get good grades and go to college you'll practically be guaranteed a good career and prosperity and then you graduate with a huge amount of debt and no jobs.
VVillyD
I think us millennials have the best typing skills of any generation in history, and no generation in the future will be better typists than us. To be clear, I'm talking about using a computer keyboard for typing. We're faster and more accurate than all previous generations were and than any future generation will be.
The thing is, we grew up socializing over a keyboard. I took typing lessons in school, but I really learned how to type quickly chatting with friends over AIM or MSN Messenger. Earlier generations certainly learned how to type for school or work, but they didn't type to socialize like we did. And if you look at Gen Z now, they don't type on a computer to socialize. They use phones. Future generations might continue using phones, or use talk-to-text, or maybe some sort of neural interface to just think their words to appear.
ImNoSheeple
I think our strength is mostly touched upon here, that we lived in a world without technology like we do today. I was born in ‘93, had older siblings that were more into the internet at an earlier stage than me in the late ‘90s, but I obviously remember the turn of the century, 9/11, technology boom, economic collapse, etc.
It’s crazy because I remember 9/11 well and we have people today that are about to turn 20 this year, almost able to drink, and they have absolutely no recollection of it.
Was born in 93 myself here lol. I remember those as well. The recession hit my family especially hard. I guess it's a good thing now looking back. Helped us a lot when it came to financial hardship for millennials even though we were kids back then.
Strengths: We can work really well for the most part in groups as this was really encouraged through school.
We can be very idealistic and optimistic at times.
We are good and adept with most forms of technology. (Some more than others but at least most of us know how to use a desktop computer basically)
We really have taken the concept of simple living. I really notice this in a lot of professionals.
Weaknesses: We take setbacks way too hard emotionally when it should really a learning experice.
We really try to over complicate things unnecessarily.
willmaster123
I have on the cusp of gen x and millennial so I have some insight I suppose
(俄裔,布魯克林)我介于X世代和千禧一代之間,所以我想我自己也是洞察到了一些東西的。
Strengths:
much more frugal, urban, and willing to live more minimalist lifestyles than gen x and boomers who loved big SUV’s and suburban McMansions.
more political, for better or worse
dramatically more educated on topics such as history and geography than generations above them, largely due to the internet
more responsible in terms of safety and health in many ways
more willing to deal with shitty economic conditions in life
Weaknesses
while they are more responsible in safety and health, they’re also less disciplined, hence obesity rates
millennials statistically are a very self contained generation. The percentage of youth with friends 10 years above them has rapidly declined since the 80s
millennials largely have given up on music as a driving force in culture, instead having it sectioned off into little niche scenes
a weird obsession with childish media such as cartoons or Harry Potter
nuckel-avee
Strength: i dont buy shit, dont go out for fun, and only eat one meal a day. Because of this i can survive off of my single fulltime job.
Weakness: chocolates
Xx69stayinskool420xX
Our greatest strength: We made being too broke to buy furniture cool, AKA minimalism
Our greatest weakness: We're too broke to buy furniture
DOMSdeluise
I would say our relative youth allows us to be stronger and more athletic than older generations, but our weakness is that zoomers are adults now and could only grow stronger, while we millennials age into weakness and senescence.
WearableHeadphones
TIL I’m a millennial. Huh, who woulda thunk.
I’d put our massive migration away from organized religion as huge. It shows we’re freethinkers. We’re taught to question and think outside the box. Rather than just blindly believe what we’re told.
Agattu
As a millennial, I have a pretty dim view of my generation.
(阿拉斯加)作為千禧一代,我對(duì)我這代人的看法是相當(dāng)悲觀的。
I think our strengths are related to our experience in regards to technology. Older millennials were born early enough to learn technology as it developed. Computers started showing up in every household around the time we could use a computer, cell phones became more and more accessible as we got to an age that our parents would let us have cell phones. We began communicating via text and the internet due to AIM and the creation of text messaging before people outside of the Military and large businesses began to en masse. I believe that is why our generation seems to adapt better. I don’t meet many millennials using old technology or complaining about new technology. We want it, love it, learn it, and excel at it... but we also have memories and experiences without it so we respect it more than others.
Our weaknesses are plentiful in my experience. Education wise I feel that millennials have been mislead in regards to the importance of a college education. That lead to a large portion of our generation getting a degree and spending money on a degree without looking at the future. Sure a history degree is great, but if you have no career goals in mind, it’s going to be a hard field to make a living in.
Because of that financial burden, we have lead ourselves to believe that we deserve more when we do graduate. We expect to be able to afford things, and do things that our parents did at the same age level without taking into account the jobs, titles, and roles we do. This is why our generation comes off as entitled, and it is because we kind of are.
Another weakness is, again in my experience, that people don’t want to take on challenging tasks. A lot of the millennials I know that are stuck in retail, food service, or other low paying thankless jobs are there for a few reasons. Leaving out those that are less fortunate and couldn’t go to college,trade school, or community college to get a degree of some form, most millennials are there because they are snobs. They care more about living in a certain place or working in a certain field than they do about actually getting a high paid job. I’m not saying they would rather be a waitress than a salesman, but when in a highly expensive city in a competitive market, one cannot assume they will get a job in their field. The amount of millennials I have met not willing to take a job beneath their “status” is really high. They went to college for Christ’s sake, they can’t take a job as an electrician, or in construction, or driving long haul trucks. And god forbid you ask them to live in a non-trendy place or big city to get the job they need instead of a job they want.
Finally our biggest problem as a generation, in my opinion, is our care for status. We care too much about status. We care about being able to show off how good life is on social media. We want to feel better about ourselves by showing how much we have or can do. I think this is the main cause for a lot of our ‘entitlement’, and why we are viewed as having mismatched priorities. I think this also fuels the political motivations of some in our generation because they see others having what they want, but obtaining that seems impossible to them.
Anyways, say what you want, but these are my thoughts on my generation.
無(wú)論你怎么看,反正這些就是我對(duì)我們這一代人的看法。
wormbreath
I think we are more likely to break free from what generations before did, get married young, have kids, go to church. We are paving our own way, putting off marriage and children and leaving religion behind, we are free thinkers in that way. I’m a millennial who left religion, didn’t get married until my 30’s and am not having children.
MetroBS
Strength: We exist
American millennials are the only millennial cohort anywhere in the developed world who have about the same numbers as the baby boomers. The fact that we exist is wonders for the American economy and is unique to the United States. For example, in about ten years we will fill out the tax paying class in a way that Gen X never could, and our consumption alone has kept the US out of recession for the past ten years (covid non withstanding)
wogggieee
We've had a fair amount of adversity in our lives which I think makes us fairly resilient. I don't know if it's necessarily a weakness or a victim of circumstances but the level of debt we have holds us back.
Carloverguy20
The great thing about our generation is that we are very tech savvy, most grew up with computers, video camera recorders, video games, cable TV, early internet and early social media. Millennials are also more progressive and open to interracial dating, friendships, opposite sex friendships, same-sex dating, and don't care about getting married young, having kids and living the nuclear family life.
The weaknesses the millennials have are that, we aren't as outgoing as the older generations were when they were our age, and are less risk-takers too.
I heard about this, millennials don't have the risk tolerance as we did compared to our previous generations. I see that as a very bad thing. We need to have this generation take more risks, I wonder what's the root cause to that.
We're great at killing business according to articles that my aunt shares on facebook.
(馬薩諸塞)我們會(huì)因?yàn)榭戳艘虌尫窒碓谀槙系奈恼?,就害死一堆企業(yè),我們可擅長(zhǎng)這個(gè)了
(回復(fù))(加州)如果鉆石行業(yè)因?yàn)榍ъ淮鴱氐淄甑?,我?huì)將其視為一場(chǎng)大勝利。
I think one strength we have is that most of us knew a world before the internet changed every aspect of modern life. We watched the world transform while we were young enough to adapt to it, but not so young we didn't understand it. Its a unique perspective I think.
我覺得我們的一大優(yōu)勢(shì)在于:我們大部分人都曉得在互聯(lián)網(wǎng)改變現(xiàn)代生活方方面面之前的那個(gè)世界是什么樣子。我們見證了那個(gè)世界的變易,雖然尚年輕的我們能夠適應(yīng)它,但我們還沒(méi)有年輕到無(wú)法理解它。我覺得我們的這種視角是獨(dú)一無(wú)二的。
(回復(fù))(阿拉斯加)同意。我認(rèn)為正是這一點(diǎn)讓我們成為了在今后相當(dāng)長(zhǎng)的一段時(shí)間內(nèi)適應(yīng)力最強(qiáng)的一代人。直到科技和我們的日常生活發(fā)生某種重大飛躍。
Millennials will be powerful in the near future.
千禧一代在不久的將來(lái)會(huì)很得勢(shì)的。
我是X世代的,我們這代人在國(guó)家政治中似乎被遺漏了。被我們選出來(lái)當(dāng)總統(tǒng)的,至今都是那些該死的已經(jīng)到了罹患老年癡呆癥年紀(jì)的嬰兒潮世代的人,而之前的兩任總統(tǒng)本該是X世代的人。
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你們千禧一代的優(yōu)勢(shì)在于:所有人都在低估和質(zhì)疑你們。你們是強(qiáng)大的、受過(guò)良好教育的一代人。你們經(jīng)歷過(guò)全球經(jīng)濟(jì)衰退,見證過(guò)市場(chǎng)操縱和其他很多為了錢而作出的不道德之事。你們會(huì)讓這個(gè)國(guó)家變得更好,這就很像沉默的一代。
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(回復(fù))(明尼蘇達(dá))我們有很多現(xiàn)任領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人連嬰兒潮一代都不是,他們比那代人還要老。拜登、佩洛西和麥康奈爾全都是嬰兒潮一代之前的人。
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(回復(fù))我覺得這是緊跟在規(guī)模特別大的一代人身后帶來(lái)的后果。我還記得在不久前聽過(guò)一個(gè)講座,其中概述了嬰兒潮一代為了增進(jìn)他們自身的利益而扭曲政治和政策的很多手法,而依靠的僅僅是他們這個(gè)投票陣營(yíng)的巨大規(guī)模。不幸的是,這就連帶傷害到了X世代。
The weakness is the cynicism. Everyone is so cynical. I can’t stand it.
(長(zhǎng)島)弱點(diǎn)就是犬儒主義。每個(gè)人都重度犬儒化了。這一點(diǎn)我無(wú)法忍受。
(回復(fù))(明尼蘇達(dá))可是很難不變成這樣啊,因?yàn)樵谀汩L(zhǎng)大的過(guò)程中大家一直在告訴你說(shuō),只要拿到好分?jǐn)?shù),上了大學(xué),基本上你就能有很不錯(cuò)的職業(yè)發(fā)展,就能飛黃騰達(dá),可等你一畢業(yè)卻背上了巨額債務(wù),也找不到工作。
I think us millennials have the best typing skills of any generation in history, and no generation in the future will be better typists than us. To be clear, I'm talking about using a computer keyboard for typing. We're faster and more accurate than all previous generations were and than any future generation will be.
(馬里蘭)我認(rèn)為我們千禧一代的打字技術(shù)是所有世代中最棒的,未來(lái)也不會(huì)再出現(xiàn)比我們打字技巧更高的世代了。澄清一下,我說(shuō)的是使用電腦鍵盤打字。我們的手速比之前的所有世代以及之后會(huì)出現(xiàn)的所有世代都要快,也更準(zhǔn)確。
問(wèn)題在于,我們是一路用鍵盤社交成長(zhǎng)起來(lái)的。我在學(xué)校里上過(guò)打字課,但真正讓我學(xué)會(huì)高速打字的,是通過(guò)AIM或MSN和朋友聊天。之前的幾代人為了上學(xué)或工作,當(dāng)然也是學(xué)過(guò)打字的,但他們和我們不同,不是靠打字來(lái)社交的。而如果你去看今天的Z世代,他們并不是靠在電腦上打字來(lái)社交的。他們用的是手機(jī)。未來(lái)的世代也許會(huì)繼續(xù)使用手機(jī),或是使用語(yǔ)音輸入,或是使用某種能接連神經(jīng)的界面,只要腦中想到字詞,就能示現(xiàn)。
我們千禧一代是電腦鍵盤大師,這頂桂冠永遠(yuǎn)屬于我們。
(回復(fù))(德州)不過(guò)我還很好奇,有一天鍵盤會(huì)不會(huì)過(guò)時(shí)。
I think our strength is mostly touched upon here, that we lived in a world without technology like we do today. I was born in ‘93, had older siblings that were more into the internet at an earlier stage than me in the late ‘90s, but I obviously remember the turn of the century, 9/11, technology boom, economic collapse, etc.
(馬薩諸塞)我覺得我們的優(yōu)勢(shì)評(píng)論區(qū)里大都提到了,也就是我們?cè)?jīng)生活在一個(gè)不具備今天這些技術(shù)的世界里。我生于93年,也有比我年長(zhǎng)的兄弟姐妹,他們投身網(wǎng)絡(luò)是在更早的時(shí)候,不像我是在九十年代末,但我清楚地記得世紀(jì)之交、911事件、科技繁榮、經(jīng)濟(jì)崩潰等事件。
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這事兒想起來(lái)就很瘋狂,因?yàn)?11我記得很清楚,可現(xiàn)在有一些快到二十歲的人,都快到能喝酒的年紀(jì)了,可他們卻完全記不起來(lái)。
(回復(fù))(德州)呵呵我也是93年生人。我也清楚記得那些事件。那次經(jīng)濟(jì)衰退對(duì)我家人的打擊特別慘重。我猜,現(xiàn)在回看的時(shí)候,那也算是件好事吧。經(jīng)濟(jì)困難對(duì)我們千禧一代的幫助很大,盡管當(dāng)時(shí)的我們還只是孩子。
Well I was born in 1984.. I was Last of the Gen X and First of the Millennials and a mix of Both.
(俄亥俄)好吧,我是84年生人..我是X世代的尾巴,也是頭一批千禧一代,兩者的特質(zhì)我是兼?zhèn)涞摹?/b>
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We can be very idealistic and optimistic at times.
We are good and adept with most forms of technology. (Some more than others but at least most of us know how to use a desktop computer basically)
We really have taken the concept of simple living. I really notice this in a lot of professionals.
長(zhǎng)處:
-在團(tuán)隊(duì)協(xié)作中,我們大多能表現(xiàn)得很出色,因?yàn)檫@是學(xué)校大力推動(dòng)的技能
-有時(shí)我們會(huì)非常理想主義,且樂(lè)觀
-我們擅長(zhǎng)大部分科技形態(tài),也熟稔于此。(精通程度各有不同,但臺(tái)式機(jī)的基本操作,至少我們大部分人還是會(huì)的)
-我們?cè)谡嬲饬x上奉持了簡(jiǎn)單生活這種理念。我在很多專業(yè)人士身上都注意到了這一點(diǎn)
We really try to over complicate things unnecessarily.
短處:
-我們?cè)谠馐艽煺蹠r(shí),感情上受到的的打擊過(guò)大,而挫折本該是一種學(xué)習(xí)的經(jīng)歷
-我們會(huì)想方設(shè)法把各種事情毫無(wú)必要地復(fù)雜化
I have on the cusp of gen x and millennial so I have some insight I suppose
(俄裔,布魯克林)我介于X世代和千禧一代之間,所以我想我自己也是洞察到了一些東西的。
much more frugal, urban, and willing to live more minimalist lifestyles than gen x and boomers who loved big SUV’s and suburban McMansions.
more political, for better or worse
dramatically more educated on topics such as history and geography than generations above them, largely due to the internet
more responsible in terms of safety and health in many ways
more willing to deal with shitty economic conditions in life
長(zhǎng)處:
-節(jié)儉程度和市民化程度都要高得多,也比X世代和嬰兒潮一代更愿意采取更極簡(jiǎn)主義的生活方式,后者熱衷于大號(hào)的SUV和位于郊區(qū)的豪宅
-不管好歹,都更政治化
-在歷史和地理等領(lǐng)域的學(xué)識(shí)遠(yuǎn)超前幾代人,這很大程度上是拜互聯(lián)網(wǎng)所賜
-在很多方面,對(duì)安全和健康都更上心
-更愿意在生活中應(yīng)付惡劣的經(jīng)濟(jì)狀況
while they are more responsible in safety and health, they’re also less disciplined, hence obesity rates
millennials statistically are a very self contained generation. The percentage of youth with friends 10 years above them has rapidly declined since the 80s
millennials largely have given up on music as a driving force in culture, instead having it sectioned off into little niche scenes
a weird obsession with childish media such as cartoons or Harry Potter
-雖然他們對(duì)安全和健康更上心,但自律性也更差,所以肥胖率很高
-從統(tǒng)計(jì)數(shù)字來(lái)看,千禧一代是非常孤僻的。年輕人擁有比自己年長(zhǎng)10歲的朋友的比率,從80年代開始急劇下降
-千禧一代在很大程度上已經(jīng)放棄了音樂(lè)的文化推動(dòng)力屬性,而是將其分割,并納入各種小眾場(chǎng)景
-對(duì)幼稚的媒體(比如卡通或哈利波特)有一種古怪的癡迷
Strength: i dont buy shit, dont go out for fun, and only eat one meal a day. Because of this i can survive off of my single fulltime job.
Weakness: chocolates
(南卡)長(zhǎng)處:我什么東西都不買,不出去浪,而且一天只吃一頓飯。只有這樣我才能靠我那一份全職工作活下去
短處:嗜巧克力
Our greatest strength: We made being too broke to buy furniture cool, AKA minimalism
Our greatest weakness: We're too broke to buy furniture
(加州)我們最大的優(yōu)勢(shì):我們把窮到買不起家具搞得很酷,美其名曰極簡(jiǎn)主義
我們最大的弱點(diǎn):我們窮到買不起家具
I would say our relative youth allows us to be stronger and more athletic than older generations, but our weakness is that zoomers are adults now and could only grow stronger, while we millennials age into weakness and senescence.
(德州)我覺得是相對(duì)年輕的我們比老一輩人更身強(qiáng)力壯,但我們的弱點(diǎn)是Z世代現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)是成年人了,而且只會(huì)變得更強(qiáng),而我們千禧一代會(huì)越來(lái)越年老力衰。
TIL I’m a millennial. Huh, who woulda thunk.
I’d put our massive migration away from organized religion as huge. It shows we’re freethinkers. We’re taught to question and think outside the box. Rather than just blindly believe what we’re told.
(孟菲斯)今天我才知道我屬于千禧一代。哈,誰(shuí)能想到呢。
我覺得,我們大規(guī)模背棄有組織宗教是一件會(huì)帶來(lái)很大影響的事情。這表明我們是自由思想者。學(xué)校教會(huì)了我們?nèi)ベ|(zhì)疑,去在思考時(shí)跳出條條框框。而不是盲目地去相信別人告訴我們的話。
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(回復(fù))(佛羅里達(dá))我是X世代的,我真的很贊賞你們千禧一代人成群地背棄有組織宗教。這就讓我對(duì)人類的未來(lái)充滿了希望。
As a millennial, I have a pretty dim view of my generation.
(阿拉斯加)作為千禧一代,我對(duì)我這代人的看法是相當(dāng)悲觀的。
我覺得我們的優(yōu)勢(shì)和我們?cè)诳萍挤矫娴慕?jīng)驗(yàn)有關(guān)。年長(zhǎng)些的千禧一代出生時(shí)間足夠早,在技術(shù)發(fā)展的過(guò)程中就已經(jīng)學(xué)會(huì)了這些技術(shù)。我們學(xué)會(huì)使用電腦的時(shí)候,差不多也是電腦開始出現(xiàn)在每個(gè)家庭中的時(shí)候,而當(dāng)我們長(zhǎng)到父母允許我們擁有手機(jī)的年紀(jì)時(shí),手機(jī)也已經(jīng)變得越來(lái)越普及了。由于AIM和短信的發(fā)明,在軍隊(duì)和大企業(yè)以外的人開始集體使用手機(jī)之前,我們就開始通過(guò)短信和互聯(lián)網(wǎng)進(jìn)行交流了。我相信這就是為什么我們這一代人似乎擁有更好的適應(yīng)能力。我碰到的千禧一代中,沒(méi)有什么人在使用舊的技術(shù)或是抱怨新的技術(shù)。我們想要它、喜歡它、學(xué)習(xí)它,也很擅長(zhǎng)它…但我們也擁有它們尚不存在時(shí)的記憶和體驗(yàn),所以我們比別人更尊重它。
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以我的經(jīng)驗(yàn),我們的缺點(diǎn)是有很多的。在教育方面,我感覺千禧一代在大學(xué)教育的重要性上被誤導(dǎo)了。這也導(dǎo)致我們這一代人中有很大一部分人拿到了學(xué)位,而且把錢花在了拿學(xué)位上,卻沒(méi)有去著眼未來(lái)。歷史學(xué)位固然很好,但如果你心中沒(méi)有職業(yè)目標(biāo),那就很難在這個(gè)領(lǐng)域中謀生。
由于拿學(xué)位帶來(lái)的這種經(jīng)濟(jì)負(fù)擔(dān),我們騙自己說(shuō),當(dāng)我們真的畢業(yè)時(shí),我們理應(yīng)得到更多。在我們的期望中,我們能買得起各種東西,而且能去做那些我們父母在同樣年齡中能做的事情,卻沒(méi)有考慮到我們的工作、頭銜和角色。這就是為什么我們這一代人表現(xiàn)出的是“很多東西是我們理應(yīng)得到的”,因?yàn)樵谀撤N程度上我們確實(shí)如此。
另一個(gè)缺點(diǎn)同樣也是根據(jù)我的經(jīng)驗(yàn)總結(jié)出的:人們不愿意接受有挑戰(zhàn)性的任務(wù)。我認(rèn)識(shí)的很多千禧一代都陷在零售、餐飲服務(wù)或其他吃力不討好的低薪工作中,原因有幾個(gè)。撇開那些不夠幸運(yùn),上不了大學(xué)、職?;蛏鐓^(qū)大學(xué)也便拿不到某種形式的學(xué)位的人,大多數(shù)千禧一代仍然在那些地方工作是因?yàn)樗麄兪莿?shì)利眼。他們更在乎的是在特定的地方生活或是在特定的領(lǐng)域中工作,而不是真正得到一份高薪的工作。我并不是說(shuō)他們寧可做服務(wù)生也不愿意做銷售,但如果是在一個(gè)生活成本很高的城市,在一個(gè)競(jìng)爭(zhēng)激烈的市場(chǎng)中,那就不能想當(dāng)然地認(rèn)為他們能在自己的領(lǐng)域中得到一份工作。在我見過(guò)的千禧一代中,不愿意接受比他們的“身份地位”下賤的工作的人真的很多。他們因?yàn)槟涿畹脑蛉ド狭舜髮W(xué),他們不愿意接受電工和建筑業(yè)的工作,也不愿意去開長(zhǎng)途卡車。而且你就是不可以要求他們?nèi)ゲ粫r(shí)髦的地方或大城市生活,好找到他們需要的工作,而不是他們想要的工作。
最后,在我看來(lái),我們這一代人最大的問(wèn)題就是在乎身份地位。我們太在乎身份地位了。我們?cè)诤醯氖悄軌蛟谏缃幻襟w上炫耀自己的生活有多好。我們希望通過(guò)展示我們所擁有的東西或我們有能力做的事情,來(lái)讓自己感覺更良好。我認(rèn)為這就是我們產(chǎn)生了很多“自我重要感”的主要原因,這也是為什么別人眼中的我們,設(shè)置的優(yōu)先級(jí)與自身資質(zhì)不匹配。我想這也助長(zhǎng)了我們這一代中一部分人的政治動(dòng)機(jī),因?yàn)樗麄兛吹絼e人擁有他們想要的東西,但對(duì)他們來(lái)說(shuō)似乎不可能得到。
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無(wú)論你怎么看,反正這些就是我對(duì)我們這一代人的看法。
I think we are more likely to break free from what generations before did, get married young, have kids, go to church. We are paving our own way, putting off marriage and children and leaving religion behind, we are free thinkers in that way. I’m a millennial who left religion, didn’t get married until my 30’s and am not having children.
我覺得我們更有可能掙脫前幾代人的行為定勢(shì),趁著年輕結(jié)婚,要孩子,上教堂。我們正在開辟自己的道路,推遲結(jié)婚和要小孩,離棄宗教,我們以這種方式成為了自由思考者。我是一個(gè)離開了宗教,上了30歲才結(jié)婚,也不打算要孩子的千禧一代。
Strength: We exist
American millennials are the only millennial cohort anywhere in the developed world who have about the same numbers as the baby boomers. The fact that we exist is wonders for the American economy and is unique to the United States. For example, in about ten years we will fill out the tax paying class in a way that Gen X never could, and our consumption alone has kept the US out of recession for the past ten years (covid non withstanding)
(特拉華)優(yōu)勢(shì):我們的存在本身
在發(fā)達(dá)國(guó)家的千禧一代中,只有美國(guó)的千禧一代在人數(shù)上和嬰兒潮一代相當(dāng)。事實(shí)就是,我們的存在本身就給美國(guó)經(jīng)濟(jì)帶來(lái)了奇跡,這也是美國(guó)獨(dú)有的情況。比如說(shuō),大約十年內(nèi),我們就會(huì)以一種X世代從未做到過(guò)的方式填補(bǔ)納稅階層,而且單單是我們的消費(fèi),就已經(jīng)在過(guò)去十年中讓美國(guó)擺脫了衰退(盡管出現(xiàn)了新冠)
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缺點(diǎn):有關(guān)取消文化的一切
(譯注:取消文化即以個(gè)人抵制或公開羞辱的方式報(bào)復(fù)或懲罰某個(gè)出現(xiàn)爭(zhēng)議性舉止的公眾人物)
We've had a fair amount of adversity in our lives which I think makes us fairly resilient. I don't know if it's necessarily a weakness or a victim of circumstances but the level of debt we have holds us back.
(明尼蘇達(dá))我們?cè)谌松薪?jīng)歷過(guò)相當(dāng)多的逆境,我覺得這會(huì)讓我們擁有相當(dāng)高強(qiáng)的復(fù)原能力。我也不清楚這是否一定就是缺點(diǎn),還是說(shuō)是受大環(huán)境的拖累,但我們的債務(wù)水平讓我們踟躕不前。
The great thing about our generation is that we are very tech savvy, most grew up with computers, video camera recorders, video games, cable TV, early internet and early social media. Millennials are also more progressive and open to interracial dating, friendships, opposite sex friendships, same-sex dating, and don't care about getting married young, having kids and living the nuclear family life.
(芝加哥)我們這一代人身上最棒的特質(zhì)就是,我們精通技術(shù),大部分人都是在電腦、攝像機(jī)、電子游戲、有線電視、早期的互聯(lián)網(wǎng)和早期的社交媒體中泡大的。千禧一代的思想也更為進(jìn)步,對(duì)于跨種族約會(huì)、友誼、異性友誼、同性約會(huì)都比較開放,對(duì)于很年輕就結(jié)婚、生孩子和過(guò)核心家庭生活也不怎么上心。
(譯注:核心家庭一般指由父母和孩子兩代人組成的家庭)
千禧一代人的弱點(diǎn)是,老一輩人在我們這個(gè)年紀(jì)時(shí),我們是不如他們那么外向的,我們也更不愿意承擔(dān)風(fēng)險(xiǎn)。
(回復(fù))我聽說(shuō)過(guò)這個(gè)問(wèn)題,我們千禧一代不具備之前世代的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)承受力。我覺得這就挺糟糕的。我們必須讓這一代人勇于承擔(dān)更多的風(fēng)險(xiǎn)。我很好奇這背后的根源是什么。
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Very tolerant and chill, but like other generations in the U.S. somewhat ignorant to the outside world.
忍耐力很強(qiáng),也很冷靜,但就像美國(guó)的其他世代一樣,對(duì)外部世界有幾分無(wú)知。