Location: Tenchi Morigi’s Wiki

Guest writer Tenchi, writing from her home in Germany, has followed my discussions, here and at the Metaverse Journal and New World Notes, on America’s “Millennial” generation (or Gen Y, which is not the most descriptive term for these young people).  Now she’s taken on discussing Germany’s youth born since 1982. Tenchi has provided her perspective, and her label says a great deal: she calls them Germany’s Generation P, with P for “Party.“

Read her outstanding wiki entry on this demographic.

My feelings and misgivings about Americans this age can be summed up quickly.  I like these youngsters a great deal, and I admire their sense of community service, ability to network, and facility with new technologies. I fret about their conformity, their need for structured experience (perhaps stemming from a lack of unstructured childhood “play”), and their discomfort outside their personal “comfort zones” of friends and experiences. Something makes them uncomfortable in SL, though my current class seems a pleasant exception so far.

I have wondered for some time what other nations’ Millennials think and do, if such commonality can even be possible. Tenchi has gotten the ball rolling nicely.

If anyone wants to share their perspectives of their nations’ Gen Y/P/Millennials, chime in.

Be sure to check the “In a Strange Land” Archive for old posts

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