Are Today's Youth Really a Lost Generation? - Derek Thompson. The Associated Press and other news outlets have assigned the World War I tag line to the Millennial Generation.
Is it deserved? Cynulliad Cymru They're calling us the "Lost Generation. " Young people are struggling in record numbers to find work, leave home, and start a family, according to 2010 Census figures released today. The proximate cause is the Great Recession. Last week, I compared the impact of the recession on three generations: Gen-Y, Gen-X, and Boomers. For Millennials, this is the great irony of the Great Recession. We're living within two crises. But the greater recession will not. The news here is not all bad. Investments are notoriously risky. "The $102,000 investment in a four-year college yields a rate of return of 15.2 percent per year," the Hamilton Foundation reported, "more than double the average return over the last 60 years experienced in the stock market" and more than five times the return in corporate bonds, gold, long-term government bonds, or housing.
The Generations of Men: How the Cycles of History Shape Your Values, Your Idea of Manhood, and Your Future. As is the generation of leaves, so to of men: At one time the wind shakes the leaves to the ground but then the flourishing woods Gives birth, and the season of spring comes into existence; So it is with the generations of men, which alternately come forth and pass away. - Homer, The Illiad, Book Six If you’ve been following AoM for awhile now, you know that Kate and I love history.
I studied classical history in college and Kate actually taught American history and Humanities at a community college here in town. And in running the Art of Manliness for the past five years, we’ve read hundreds of old writings while researching material for our posts and two books. Through our study and reading, something that we’ve both come to appreciate about history is just how right the author of Ecclesiastes was: “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”
It is often said that history repeats itself. Top 10 Generation Y Trends for 2012. Is the recession a reset button or a stop-consuming-now moment for Generation Y?
What is the influence of Andy Warhol’s famous quote “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes,” in 2012? Why is baking cake important for millennials? Why are we all becoming Technoholics in the near future? In this Top 10 Generation Y Trends for 2012 article, I discuss 10 trends for 2012, concerning generarion Y. Find them below: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Millennials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change. Executive Summary Generations, like people, have personalities, and Millennials — the American teens and twenty-somethings who are making the passage into adulthood at the start of a new millennium — have begun to forge theirs: confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat and open to change.
They are more ethnically and racially diverse than older adults. They’re less religious, less likely to have served in the military, and are on track to become the most educated generation in American history. Their entry into careers and first jobs has been badly set back by the Great Recession, but they are more upbeat than their elders about their own economic futures as well as about the overall state of the nation.
(See chapter 4 in the full report) They embrace multiple modes of self-expression. Nearly one-in-four have a piercing in some place other than an earlobe — about six times the share of older adults who’ve done this. They get along well with their parents. They respect their elders. The Evolution of the Hipster 2000-2009. This feature appears as a spread in our November 2009 issue of Paste.
You can view the whole spread here. Thanks to photographer Josh Meister, hair/makeup artist Lani Martz, tattoo artist Bryan Reynolds from Ink & Dagger, and models Michael Saba and Allie Tsavdarides for pulling this off. 2000: The Emo The proto-hipster’s white belt and guyliner make for a soulful combination.