Baby boomers and millennials go together about as well as peanut butter on a tuna fish sandwich.
The battle between the two generations is centered around a giant "blame game": Baby boomers believe millennials are entitled and lazy. And millennials blame baby boomers for risky financial practices that contributed to housing and stock market crashes.
Even Forbes weighed in on the debate in a March 19 article, "Who's More 'Entitled': Baby Boomers or Millennials?"
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Each generation has been marked by social change, rapid advancements in technology -- and unfortunately, death and war.
Baby boomers were born in the years following World War II, between 1946 and 1964.
During and around that time, major social and technological changes hit the nation:
- The assassinations of JFK and Martin Luther King, Jr.
- The Cuban Missile Crisis
- The Civil Rights Movement
- The moon landing
- The first color television sets were sold
- Phones changed from rotary dials to touchtone keypads
For millennials, born between 1982 and 2004, these were the major events that shaped their youth:
- High-speed Internet access
- Cell phones
- The rise of social media
- 9/11
- The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
- Widespread school shootings
- Growing political movements and fights for equal rights through Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and LGBT organizations
Of course, there are still key differences between each of these groups that drive them apart.
We've illustrated five of the biggest differences between the baby-boom generation and millennials in an infographic below. Our data derives from a 2014 research study from Pew Research Center.
Infographic: 5 Key Differences Between Baby Boomers and Millennials
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Related Articles:
- AllianceStaff.com: Baby Boomers, Gen X, and Generation Y (Millennials)
- Forbes: Who's More 'Entitled': Baby Boomers or Millennials?
- U.S. News & World Report: 8 Differences Between Boomers and Millennials
- Pew Research Center: The Whys and Hows of Generations Research
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