Exaggeration over the Selfish Nature of the Millennial Generation

The dates can be disputed, however, generally, the range to be called a millennial goes from being born in 1980 and 2000. Being a millennial is sort of a state of mind, where the children of the baby boomers are seen as narcissists, selfish, lazy and obsessed with technology. This judgment can also be argued. Indeed, Joel Stein and Tom Hawking both a completely opposed opinion over this generation also named the generation 'Me Me Me'. Joel Stein wrote an article in the Time Magazine on how he thought the generation born between 1982 and 1999 were absolutely unbearable as this generation is for him to conceited and lazy. Tom Hawking then wrote a response to Stein's article. In his article, Hawking defends this millennial generation.
First of all, Joel Stein in his article in the Time Magazine can be seen as wanting too much to please or to prove his point. He directly starts his article within the two first paragraphs saying that he has facts for what he is about to claim. That his article is not just going to be a rant because he has scientific proof that he is right. The generation of children born between 1982 and 1999 is lazy and conceited, the worst it has ever been. It is as if the world, or the future is doomed. Joel Stein goes on and on throughout his whole article saying that the millennials are good for nothing except they know a lot about this social media, and things related to technology. This generation is cocky and entitled, yet they still are nice. According to Stein, this generation is lost in the sense it does not really know it's place in the world. Well, it does know it's place a little too much, but the boundaries are erased. Indeed, “ Though they're cocky about their place in the world, millennials are also st...

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This generation may be lazy and self-centered. I do feel lazy and I do feel like things are gonna magically appear into my hands such as my future. I am completely lost about what I want to do later in life. I am a part of those people that take a way too big interest in celebrities knowing that they are doing anything except drugs and entertainment yet I still think they are some kind of Gods. I would love to meet every single person that were in the famous selfie taken by Ellen Degeneres at the Oscars of this year. However, I do feel that we are not the worst generation, we are just different. I wish I could have lived in the early 70's and be a hippie in San Francisco fighting against the war in Vietnam. Nevertheless, this generation was considered by the generation before as lazy and conceited as well. No generation can be better than an other just different.