Posted on 09/05/2014 3:13:23 AM PDT by raybbr
CHICAGO (AP) — They're often pegged as the civic-minded, do-gooding generation. But while they're still optimistic about their own personal prospects, a new study finds that today's youth are often more skeptical of the country's institutions than the young generations that preceded them.
The Millennials also are as mistrusting of other people as the gloomy "slackers" of Generation X were 20 years ago — or even more so.
Jean Twenge, lead author of the study that will be published early this month in the online edition of the journal Psychological Science, says the current atmosphere — fed by the Great Recession, mass shootings, and everything from church sex abuse scandals and racial strife to the endless parade of publicly shamed politicians, athletes and celebrities — may help explain why this young generation's trust levels hit an all-time low in 2012, the most recent data available.
In the mid-1970s, when baby boomers were coming of age, about a third of high school seniors agreed that "most people can be trusted."
That dropped to 18 percent in the early 1990s for Gen Xers — and then, in 2012, to just 16 percent of Millennials.
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"Maybe it's my faith in other kids my age to step up to the challenge and change our system," says Nwachukwu, who traveled this summer to the Middle East to meet young people there with the nonprofit Qatar Foundation International. She says it was the type of experience that helps bolster her faith in people and her future.
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Well let’s see...
They were brainwashed about life being fair....
They were brainwashed that they needed to go into debt for college...
They were told there were WMDs ( there were, but they don’t know that)
They did multiple deployments with more restrictive ROEs each time...
The moral culture of the country is collapsing around them...
The government has ALWAYS been in a stupid gridlock where no one compromises....
They exposure to business has been corporate greed and mistrust....
It’s a wonder these kids are not more F’d up.
They trusted 0bama. Twice!
“”Maybe it’s my faith in other kids my age to step up to the challenge and change our system,”
Maybe they ought to learn how to improve the system instead of just tearing it up and starting over.
Generation B*
*B is for "bastard"
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