I would say that millennial, more than previous generations, divide into two groups; really entitled and hard working. I think previous generations had a more “normal” distribution of just one hump centered around reasonably competent.
I had 28 mostly young professionals a while back. It was an extremely diverse bunch. The kids who had gone to high school in foreign countries were infinitely better at speaking and writing English than the Americans. Blacks from Africa had zero sense of entitlement whereas blacks from the US felt they should be decorative rather than contributors. (One of them sued us for discrimination, accusing a Russian of dissing him because he referred to his job as monkey’s work. At the hearing (Some kind of EOE race thing) the Russian produced literature from either Dostoyevsky or Tolstoy making reference in a non-racial way to monkey’s work. We were the first ever company this particular black judge let off the hook. It wasn’t even a comment made to or intended for that guy. He just overheard it when the Russian, an inventor, was asked to help the black guy out. “What for you make me do this monkey’s work?”)
Interesting observation. I had a guy a number of years back who was born in Nigeria and spent time living in England. In addition to having zero sense of entitlement, he had perhaps the most elegant written English I have ever seen.
Plus he was a very devout Christian, as Christians in Nigeria are under constant siege from Muslims.
If he had arrived in this country as a slightly younger man, a handful of NFL teams would likely have offered him a tryout. Big, powerful guy.