Youth might not be wasted on the young!

A little while ago, I posted a study about how members of Generation X now have a much more positive outlook on things and surprisingly turned into a team of happy troopers rather than a disillusioned group of grungers. Well, NPR just published some much more interesting and telling data from the Pew Research Center in an equally significant vein called Generation Gap: How Age Shapes Political Outlook.

According to this, only 32% of this younger generation of Americans called the "Millennials" would refer to their homeland as "the greatest country in the world". Their outlook is more critical than that of generations before, but instead of sharing the older generation's dismay and anger with the government, they believe that the best is yet to come.

These Millennials, despite their ill-fated sounding name, are not sporting an apocalyptic mindset after all then - unless you consider the apocalypse to be only the beginning of something very good. Instead of expecting doom and destruction, which entails lying back and letting things go downhill, this younger, more liberal generation appears to be full of hope and great expectations.

Generation Xers, on the other hand, are described as growing "more conservative with age", by the way. So monitor yourself closely if you're part of Gen X, you never know what might happen...