AIBU to think that talking of Millennials includes a lot of stereotyping?

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I am a millenial by generation, but whenever I read about how technological gadgets and latte machiatto and so on are believed to be the most important things in their life it just makes me scratch my head.

Actually my husband and children come first in my life and I do like latte machiatto and I like it a lot. I drink it everyday. I like it a lot but could totally do without it. As everybody I know could.

To me it always seemed like this came from the older generation seeing us drink a drink unusual in their generation and assuming our life must revolve around it.

The generational thing is very interesting- worth doing some reading on (beyond the weekend insert magazines). There are useful parallels to draw about big groups who all went through the same societal experiences. Of course it kinda depends on what you were doing in those years. That’s why there are subgroups, and outliers. And quirky folk who march to the beat of their own drums regardless of age or year.

In Australia millennials are said to be spending their house deposits on ‘smashed avocados on toast’ rather than coffees. The best ones come with fetta, chilli artisan sourdough and a deconstructed kombucha!

Hardly anyone mentions generation X and Y

Its all millenial this and baby boomer that...

Thats got to be some sort of ism surely...or would it be ageism or generationism

It's easy to look at the past with rose tinted glasses but life wasn't all brilliant for the baby boomers etc. Every generation has its challenges but making it into generation warfare will help noone

fridge that much for the tiny box room?!?

It’s very easy to save money when you get paid well, supermum.

All the millennials I know work very hard, are very caring and are good friends.

Yes it's easier now but we didn't always have a high income. When I first moved here my income was low for the area and average for the UK. With no DC I saved a lot by being very careful with my costs. A lot of millennials have a gym membership if they don't live in a building with a gym already in it. Of course rent in such a building is very high making it impossible to save anything meaningful.

It's easy not to understand how bad it is. Housing is really terrible, shoddy, expensive and insecure. Jobs aren't easy to get and have zero hours contracts or are unpaid internships. Everyone wants a bloody Masters or a PhD to flip burgers.

And I do financial literacy training with youth and they all know more than I did. Because you can't make mistakes now. We made loads.

Generation Y appears to have been subsumed into millenialdom.

That seems a shame for generation Y

Generation X is too knackered to care

How the fuck can someone born in 1980 be a millennial? Millennials are all snapchat and pansexuality. People born in 1980 think cappuccino is the last word in sophistication and treasure the letters they wrote to Jim'll Fix It.

Of course there is this generation in between boomers and millennials that is equally annoyed by both.

Completely agree

Generation X is too knackered to care

yup

I'm a millennial and I don't actually know what a late macchiato is. I also got married and started a family in my late teens and don't prescribe to faddish political sentiments. Talking about any large group of people will inevitably result in stereotypes and generalisations.

I’m apparently part of a microgeneration termed “xennials” its only people born between 1976 and 1983. We’re different from Gen X in that the internet arrived in our late teens/early 20s and we adapted to it like millennials. But we lived our entire childhood and adolescence without mobiles and computers.
Basically we had an analogue childhood and a digital adulthood.

I may be biased but i reckon we have the best of gen x and the best of millennial

steak, I'm a proud Gen-Xer and I have been using the internet since my late teens, because I was at university then. Your little group isn't really that different from my people.

The Xennials are what used to be called Generation Y.

All the millennials in my life are very hard working, very sober (too sober) and have a maturity I lacked at that age. The stereotype really pisses me off when I see how hard working the ones I know are.

I agree Steak that you are part of this tiny group with an analogue childhood but a digital adulthood.
Although I too was using the Internet when I was 21 in the early 90s it wasn’t really the same internet as now, iyswim.
Internet use didn’t inform my adolescent the same way as it does now.

I was also in the last year to get full grants. That makes a huge difference. You can’t float around drinking, smoking and fucking any more.

You can’t float around drinking, smoking and fucking any more

And travelling I do feel for them . We had such a laugh . Then again we will be more like to get cancer than the clean living Millens so yeah

Agree with badtime. I am Gen X by a whisker and also had an analogue childhood and digital adulthood.