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Millennials And The American Dream Essay

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Millennials were raised in a time of huge technological advancements, popular agitations, and fairly stable economic situations. Currently at their young adulthood, the cohort is choosing to go further than any other generation on their higher education and opting for jobs that might not pay as much as others, but are loyal to their moral-ethical beliefs and fights . Opting for such careers, added to the student debt acquired throughout their education, puts Millennials in a situation of modest wealth, which is no different from the situation they grew up in, but forces them to be really careful about their personal expenses and life choices. Although there is no official data on what Millennials` wishes for the future are, it is known that …show more content…

Seems cliché to say but the data presents itself in support of the common knowledge. The human ambition never allows us to be completely satisfied with what is already at our reach, we will always crave for more. This is how the American Dream presents itself, the little voice of ambition whispering by our ears. For Boomers it was the wish for a more interesting life, for GenXers, a luxurious life, and for Millennials it is getting rid of their debt so they can start giving attention to their personal lives. One of the biggest recriminations to the Generational Theory is the fact that it boxes big groups of people under a single profile, without taking into account their class, gender, and ethnicity and for these reasons it cannot be considered or taken as a scientific method. Yet, despite all the discussion, Generational Theory is not a completely useless study. It is a very interesting field and, if perfected, could help us understand how society looked like in different periods of history. A possible solution for the criticism that the Theory receives could be to not talk about generations/cohorts of people, but about societies in time-Society X, Millennial Society, Society Z…-so not to attribute the same characteristics to an unreasonable amount of

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