“So, if use of such broad terms can be misleading or inaccurate, why use them at all?”
like all label’s it’s a broad label, and like all labels people ignore the diversity. Harping about the uselessness of the current generation has been a time honored tradition dating back to the dawn of man. I’ll bet the senior cavemen were bitching about “cavekids these days” This is not a problem. It’s a feature, a dare to prove us wrong. Don’t worry about it too much because in about fifteen years we’ll be inundated by articles written by millennials bitching about the “kids these days.”
“So, if use of such broad terms can be misleading or inaccurate, why use them at all?”
like all label’s it’s a broad label, and like all labels people ignore the diversity. Harping about the uselessness of the current generation has been a time honored tradition dating back to the dawn of man. I’ll bet the senior cavemen were bitching about “cavekids these days” This is not a problem. It’s a feature, a dare to prove us wrong. Don’t worry about it too much because in about fifteen years we’ll be inundated by articles written by millennials bitching about the “kids these days.”