Background Information
Chances are you either are a Millennial, or know one. What’s a Millennial, you say? You have come to the right place. This project was made by four people, admittedly all Millennials themselves, but not for the purpose of extolling virtues but rather to get a comprehensive look at our own generation as well as to understand where we came from and where we might go in the future. Even though generational cohorts are not always the most scientific measure, they can be useful tools to get an idea of radical attitude shifts in populations. However it is imperative to recall that even though generalizations may apply to a mass of people, they very rarely hold up completely when looking at an individual.
That being said there are many ideas of just who make up generations, so using primarily Pew Research Center sources this page is dedicated to showing a baseline for the rest of our project.
Generational Cohorts
Demonstrated above are the commonly accepted periods of time given to each generation, typically in 20 year increments, although not always. The Silent generation fought and saw the end of WWII experiencing high amounts of patriotism as well as "conformist and civic instincts"(Pew Research Center). A more rebellious generation followed, the Baby Boomers, so named for the increased period of fertility following the end of the war. Next came Gen X, which is often overlooked due to the larger size of the Baby Boomer and Millennial cohort (Pew Research Center). It is worth noting that very, very little information gathering has been done about the iGeneration - in fact most people cannot even agree on a name, often throwing around iGen, Gen Z, post-Millennials, among others. Millennials themselves have had the most attention in recent years, being the favorite target of marketing research and the like.
Millennial Educational Attainment
Generational Ethnicity
Although there are many generations to talk about, going forward we will be primarily focusing on the dynamic between Millennials and Baby Boomers as these two generations appear to share an extra special animosity that is just not present with Gen X and Millennials.
