Whether you care about politics or not, this generation is already influencing and will be transforming everthing they interact with.
And whether you agree with them or not, they bring some much needed ideas. I’m especially interested in how they are influencing the Church, which is not talked about here. But that’s for other posts. Just know that what is discussed here is obviously influencing the Church.
Now here are some very brief observations on some of the summaries that authors make in the interview. I didn’t really organize it…but peruse the observations made by the authors. Very interesting.
- Millenials are people born between 1982 in 2003 (at least as defined in the US).
- Largest generation in American history. 1 million more than the previous largest generation…the Baby Boomers.
- Twice as many Milennials as Gen X’ers
- Most ethnically diverse generation in American History…40% are either African American, Asian or Mixed Race; 20% have at least one immigrant parent.
- Generation “least bound” by gender and role restriction.
- Half of Millenials that are in college are female; first time in history.
- Highly socially tolerant generation.
- “Civic Generation”…lineal descendants of the last Civic Generation the GI/Greatest Generation (i.e. Depression, WWII, etc.)
- See a need for a greater economic equality in the country…respond to economic injustice. Will be interested in re-distribution policies to make economic inequality to go away. Continue Reading…
