Is named millennial to each member of the Millennial generation or Generation Y, a group made up of people born between the beginning of the decade of 1980 and the beginning of the decade of 2000. Millennials, according to sociologists, share certain characteristics beyond individual and cultural differences.
At a general level, a millennial is said to be an individual familiar with the use of the digital technology. These are subjects who grew up while Internet It was massed and that, within this framework, they adopted the virtual universe as their own.
It is important to note that there is no consensus regarding the start and end dates; in fact, the differences in this aspect are usually linked to the area from which they are analyzed. While we broadly adopt the aforementioned range, some believe that the key point is the beginning of the millennium . Others claim that millennials were born between 1977 and 1992.
Fleeting romantic ties characterize millennials. Unlike members of other generations, they do not usually believe in the love for life and do not bet on stable partners.
Other properties attributed to millennials are the discontent and the distrust. Millennials do not believe in political leaders or religious authorities and express their discomfort at the state of reality: they are not conformists. The environmental awareness and the individualism They are also part of the personality of millennials.
On the other hand, it is often emphasized that, having grown up surrounded by technological and computer resources, millennials are prepared to carry out multiple tasks simultaneously (multitasking). This ability is highly valued in the field of job.
We must not despise multitasking, since as natural as it may seem to a millennial, it is not something that their parents and grandparents can easily carry out. Today it is normal to combine writing or design work with music, conversations through instant messaging programs, constant research through search engines and software updates, among others. activities to which we can dedicate portions of our time as a processor would.
Some describe millennials as digital nativesprecisely because they were born with an ability to understand the technology digital that goes beyond academics. This allows them to learn to use the various current devices and operating systems with a level of intuition that their elders did not possess, and thus integrate it into all aspects of their daily lives with total ease.
When it comes to higher education, millennials have also outperformed their ancestors. In statistical figures, it is estimated that 34% of them have a qualification university under his belt.
It should be noted that the term millennial is not part of the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE). That’s why the Urgent Spanish Foundation (Founded BBVA) recommends not using this Anglicism and replacing it with millennial or millennial.
In his book “The lyre of the masses”, published by Foam Pages, Martin Rodriguez-Gaona makes an in-depth analysis of the way in which contact with new technological tools has caused a radical change in the way of conceiving poetic creation. With regard to the millennial generation, he says that the search for an elaborate and thoughtful poetics is not a priority; because poetry is for them only one of the possible ways to reach visibility and fame. The success then it has supplanted tradition and superficiality, reflective work.
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