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5 Critical Signs Millennials Actually ARE Ruining America,

A Millennial's take on our own generation.

Tyler Pletsch
Sep 11, 2017
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
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5 Critical Signs Millennials Actually ARE Ruining America,
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I am a millennial, so no, I obviously didn't live in the 20s-50s but that doesn't mean you or I can't speculate from stories and history how it was like. This is my take on what is going down hill with our generation and those that follow.

1. Music

What ever happened to heartfelt meaningful music that hit you in the heart and gave you goosebumps. Now we have this "music" that sounds like mumbling and they all sound the same. What happened to talent like Dean Martin, Stevie Wonder, Steven Tyler, or Mick Jagger now we have to put up with Drake, Lil Uzi, Lil Yachty, Justin Bieber, and Demi Lovato...

2. Standing up for yourself

We are such pushovers now, we are procrastinators, and we are lazy. What happened for fighting for the things we believed in? When we didn't like what someone said we confronted them, we didn't sit behind a screen using words we looked up through Google. When our freedoms were taken away we fought it even when there was no end in sight. Our grandparents didn't just sit idle by, they got off their ass and did something about it.

3. Complain and moan

This goes hand in hand with number 2, but where along the line did we think that complaining would fix it? Why in the world do people get so frustrated that they quit then go cry in a corner, it won't fix anything. It is time that we learn that nothing can be fixed by doing nothing. If something in your life changes for the worse and you can't fix it, then adapt and MOVE ON!

4. Schooling

I get it, schooling hasn't changed in over a hundred years, what is there to complain about? Oh yeah, because it HASN'T CHANGED IN OVER A HUNDRED YEARS! Like seriously, why are we still teaching children in the way we do? They are not robots, assembly lines run by humans are dead. So why do we still run schools like we are preparing them to work at the Ford assembly line to get the Model T out the door?

5. Patriotism

There used to be pride in everything that we did. We used to make everything we bought. There used to be flags on every street in neighborhoods. We used to honor those who served. And we definitely didn't back down from a fight. America, get your balls back from China, Russia, and the U.N. and take your eyes off Iraq, N. Korea, and Israel. If someone has a problem with the way we do things they can come to us like a big kid. It is time that we restore patriotism in the eyes of the new generation in this great nation.

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