<P> In March 2014, the Pew Research Center issued a report about how "millennials in adulthood" are "detached from institutions and networked with friends ." The report said millennials are somewhat more upbeat than older adults about America's future, with 49% of millennials saying the country's best years are ahead though they're the first in the modern era to have higher levels of student loan debt and unemployment . </P> <P> Fred Bonner, a Samuel DeWitt Proctor Chair in Education at Rutgers University and author of Diverse Millennial Students in College: Implications for Faculty and Student Affairs, believes that much of the commentary on the Millennial Generation may be partially accurate, but overly general and that many of the traits they describe apply primarily to "white, affluent teenagers who accomplish great things as they grow up in the suburbs, who confront anxiety when applying to super-selective colleges, and who multitask with ease as their helicopter parents hover reassuringly above them ." During class discussions, Bonner listened to black and Hispanic students describe how some or all of the so - called core traits did not apply to them . They often said that the "special" trait, in particular, is unrecognizable . Other socio - economic groups often do not display the same attributes commonly attributed to millennials . "It's not that many diverse parents don't want to treat their kids as special," he says, "but they often don't have the social and cultural capital, the time and resources, to do that ." </P> <P> In his book Fast Future, author David Burstein describes millennials' approach to social change as "pragmatic idealism" with a deep desire to make the world a better place, combined with an understanding that doing so requires building new institutions while working inside and outside existing institutions . </P> <P> Elza Venter, an educational psychologist and lecturer at Unisa, South Africa, in the Department of Psychology of Education, believes members of Generation Y are digital natives because they have grown up experiencing digital technology and have known it all their lives . Prensky coined the concept' digital natives' because this generation are' native speakers of the digital language of computers, video games and the internet' . This generation spans 20 years and its older members use a combination of face - to - face communication and computer mediated communication, while its younger members use mainly electronic and digital technologies for interpersonal communication . </P>

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