Why don’t you all just f-fade away (talkin’ bout my generation)
and don’t try to dig what we all s-s-say (talkin’ bout my generation)
The Pew Research Center released the results of the most extensive study of 18- to 29-year-olds to date yesterday, which breaks down our generation — known as the Millenials — into a series of figures and factoids.
For example, did you know that four in ten of us have a tattoo? Or that 20 percent of us have posted a video of ourselves online?
Perhaps the most consequential conclusion of the study is that we’re on track to become the most educated generation in American history. But, and this is one hell of an asterisk, we’re also the least employed on record.
Nonetheless, the answers given by about 1,000 of the 50 million Millenials indicate that we’re still confident about the future, upbeat and more open to change than our elders.
We’re less religious, less likely to be married, less likely to have grown up in a two-parent household, more liberal and we volunteer more than those who have gone before us.
At the same time, having grown up in the age of terror, we’re more paranoid but less skeptical of the government. The Millenials were among President Barack Obama’s strongest supporters, with 60% voting for him in 2008 compared with 50% of those 30 and older — the largest gap in voting patterns between two generations in four decades of exit polling.
Does this sound like you? Find out just how Millenial you are by taking Pew’s quiz here.