by Marina Palmieri
ThiS MoDeRn WoRlD
by tom tomorrow
Are you worried about Ebola? Asked at Meadowood Mall Pat Sutton Barber
No, I think the mainstream media needs to do a better job at getting the correct story, to lessen the fear of the disease.
Mike Walash Retired
No. I think they definitely need to quarantine the person or persons who have it, but I think they are doing a good job with what they are doing.
Susana Ramirez Retail sales
Your generation
Yes. I don’t really know [what they can do], but they have to stop it. Maybe quarantine people with it.
are white, there are 87 million Millennials, but they Much ado has been made of the Millennial are a much more diverse generation at 56 generation’s perceived negative characteristics: entipercent white. tled, lazy, high-maintenance, short attention spans. And while the wealthy members of our older (First, no, this is not our experience. Millennials are generation will likely live longer than their wealthy generally as hard-working and self-motivated as any parents did, in the United States, it’s all about the group of young people.) numbers. They were the entitled generation, squanThe Millennials are going to win in the long run, dering this country’s resources while they basked in or at least they have the potential to win if they a waller of their own making. Millennials’ time is don’t concede to the fearful negative stereotyping coming, but you’ve already changed the world, and that seems so pervasive in the media. Just to define: you didn’t do it by legislative means, you did it by Millennials are generally described as the people just being you. who became adults in the first years Take the issue of same-sex of the new century. They’re the You may have marriage. True, it was the Boomers group that mostly had their young had a lousy young who took the discriminatory laws adulthoods bushwacked by the court, but this country’s change Baby Boomer generation’s greed adulthood, but get to in attitude didn’t come from the and mismanagement of this counoldest among us—you only have ready to change try’s economy. to watch the media of the aging to Here at the RN&R, as members the world. see that homophobia is still alive of the group that exists mostly and well in the Botox and Viagra between the two population-growth generation—but from the tidal change consciousness spikes, we’re here to shout encouragement to the that rose as the Millennials came of age. Millennials: You may have had a lousy young adultYou Millennials give us people who eventually hood, but get ready to change the world. With a little are going to age out of relevance a great deal of hope bit of luck, and maybe a little youthful exuberance, you will be able to overcome this incredible mess the that you—with your greater numbers and collaborative cores—will be able to take on the greatest issues Boomers put upon the rest of us. There are all kinds of statistics to prove this asser- like racism, war, income disparity and global warming. Face it, you’ve already changed the world, and tion, for example, according to Forbes, while there you’re just getting started. Ω are 76 million baby boomers, and 72 percent of them
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Bryan Velcker USDA worker
No. [I don’t think they need to do] more than what they are doing.
Louise Funner Retail sales
Not too worried, they found the guy who brought it in, so I think what they are doing is good I hope. I would definitely do something like quarantine the people so it doesn’t spread.
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