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Liberal government advised not to call young people 'millennials' lest they be insulted
A $54,000-study conducted in March found that young people aged 16 to 30 thoroughly resent how they're labelled
OTTAWA — Don’t call young people “millennials,” because they find the term offensive, the federal government has been told.
In focus groups conducted for Employment and Social Development Canada, researchers determined earlier this year the word elicits “strong negative connotations” and is “considered derogatory and insulting to this generation.”...
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For their part, Canadian youth said it leads to stereotypes about “kids not working, with a crappy job, sponging off their parents,” as one participant said. The word is usually “used to describe our faults,” and to describe a generation that is “lazy” with “no ambition,” said others. A “bad generation.”
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The report was delivered to government just weeks before the internet started arguing about avocado toast.
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Liberal government advised not to call young people 'millennials' lest they be insulted
A $54,000-study conducted in March found that young people aged 16 to 30 thoroughly resent how they're labelled
OTTAWA — Don’t call young people “millennials,” because they find the term offensive, the federal government has been told.
In focus groups conducted for Employment and Social Development Canada, researchers determined earlier this year the word elicits “strong negative connotations” and is “considered derogatory and insulting to this generation.”...
...
For their part, Canadian youth said it leads to stereotypes about “kids not working, with a crappy job, sponging off their parents,” as one participant said. The word is usually “used to describe our faults,” and to describe a generation that is “lazy” with “no ambition,” said others. A “bad generation.”
...
The report was delivered to government just weeks before the internet started arguing about avocado toast.
...