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Our generation as the major factor of change in our society

At first, What is generation?

According to Wikipedia.com, Generation means "people within a delineated population who experience significant events within a given period of time. Generation in this sense of birth cohort, also known as a "social generation" is widely used in popular culture, and has been the basis for sociological analysis. There are so many generations that they have their own definition based on major cultural, political and economic influences. These are: 1.Baby Boomer generation (1946-1964), Generation X (1965-1979), Generation Y / Millennials (1980-1995), Generation Z (1996-2010) and Generation alpha (2011-2025). Our generation, also known as Generation Y (Millennial Generation), or simply Millennials has been shaped by the technological revolution that occurred through out their youth. Equipped with the latest technologies and gadgets. Generation Y is online and connected 24/7, 365 days a year. Generation Y has grown up with the internet, globalization, mobile phones and Facebook. The new generation can be described as ambitious and self-confident. Some older people think that Millennials goes as far as being arrogant. They have high expectations and seek new challenges and are not afraid to raise questions if something is unclear. Our Culture has created a society in which young people are searching for meaning, get swept up by empty promises and are easily suckered by manipulation. They tend to believe easily the things that they just read or saw somewhere without them checking if the source is reliable. Sometimes, there are so passionate about the things that often just don't matter. They also grew up in a society which requires having high standards at everything. They often overreact over a simple thing which makes them more look like they're arrogant and much different from older generations. In this research, the researchers wants to know if our generation played a big role in the concerning changes occurring in today's society. The researchers seeks to find enough evidence to justify the reasons of why our society and culture is slowly changing as time goes by.

What is Generation Y for you? 1. Fae and I was a part of what known as the Millennial Generation or Generation Y. We are exposed with all the advances our world has made. We consider ourselves to be lucky to be born in this time yet we are aware that there are pros and cons to being part of this generation.

2. Last year, Director Gino M. Santos made a film entitled " Generation Y". He conducted this film because he wants to identify the social issues confronted by millennials. He also wants to make his film as an eye opener in today's generation. He define Generation Y/ Millennials as "the one who treats technology as their sixth sense, the one who succeeded extensively in terms of the more liberated and open minded than Generation X. He added that "Millennials are the most misunderstood generation and normally independent having the "You-Only-Live-Once" attitude and are happy go lucky". Because of that he portrays millennials nowadays notorious for their fondness with sex, drugs, alcohol and the ironic worst vice of them all, social media. It arouses passion from everyone as director Gino M. Santos tackles the modern day socio political situation of our generation through the character of the film.

Characteristics of a Millennial Millennials have been characterized in a number of different ways. On the negative side, We have been described as lazy, narcissistic and dumb. But we also have been described in positive ways. They say that we are more open minded,confident ,self-expressive and ready to explore new ideas and ways of living. A story in Time magazine said polls show that Millennials "want flexible work schedules, more "me time". Another Time story entitled "The me me generation" describes millennials as narcissistic and lazy. And one 2012 study fund millennials to be "more civically and politically disengaged, more confused on materialistic values, and less concerned about helping larger community that were Generation X and baby boomers at the same ages", according to USA Today.

Generation Y in US and Philippines Netflix,Viber,Facebook,Twitter,Iphone,Snapchat etc. These are some of the things that an American have fond doing nowadays. These digital natives who grown up in a world of constant connectivity, where anyone or anything you could want to access is just a click or a call away, these people that are highly social, hugely optimistic and relentlessly determined to change the world. American Millennials became confident, self- expressive,liberal,upbeat, and open to change. They're less religious, they are the most educated generation yet they are lazy and always act the YOLO attitude. And because We, Filipinos are the greatest imitators, we try to copy the way of living of the Americans so we end up like that also. The Filipinos of today is soft, and easy going. We are obsessed in social media, we don't have time with our family, we don't care on what happens in our society.

 Impact on the society (positive and negative effects)  According to the US and World, Millennials and their impact on society is a constant topic of debate. In fact, Millennials are even having trouble in figuring out their own views. Here are some facts about what is the impact of the Millennials in changing the world ahead.
 * 1) They aren't reading as much
 * 2) They're being more critical
 * 3) Music tastes are changing
 * 4) They're dropping narcissism
 * 5) They're less religious

Therefore, we firmly agree that our generation is one of the major factors why our society is changing. It shows that being more dependent in technology can affect our environment and can both lessen and increase our interaction with other people around us. Even though we came from the same generation, millennials in other countries are different from us too. We have different culture and tradition in every country.

Nowadays, our culture and tradition is slowly fading. People tend to forget what our ancestors taught us, or even forget it intentionally. Generation Y are known to be confident and a little bit arrogant at the same time which makes them more confident and doubtless to do what they want to do. They like to explore and discover new things which sometimes result to violating our primitive culture and tradition. The bottom line of this research is that even though we don't recognize it, we, Millennials, plays a major role in the change of our society. We have to be more aware and careful of our actions. We all need to learn how to preserve the values that our ancestors taught us. We have to acknowledge their contribution in our society because they are the reason why we ended up like this. We have to respect our ancestors and learn to preserve our culture and tradition because the future generations are also going to assimilate what we are practicing today. We have to make an action and start changing our bad habits in order for us to avert sudden change in our society.