美国千禧一代（81年-96年）的优缺点

美国人的分享：美国千禧一代（81年-96年生人）的优势和缺点

American Millennials, what''s our strength and weaknesses? 

2021-04-17  yzy86

译文简介：我们大部分人都晓得在互联网改变现代生活方方面面之前的那个世界是什么样子。我们见证了那个世界的变易，虽然尚年轻的我们能够适应它，但我们还没有年轻到无法理解它。我觉得我们的这种视角是独一无二的。

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（图解：美国世代分际示意图，分别为失去的一代、最伟大的一代、沉默一代、婴儿潮一代、X世代、千禧一代（即Y世代）、Z世代、阿尔法世代） 

What would you say are the strongest strengths that American millennials have, and what would you say are the greatest weaknesses that we have if compared to previous generations or compared to other nations millennials? Maybe some not so well known facts about us?

（楼主为德州人）和上几代人以及其他国家的千禧一代相比，我们美国的千禧一代最显著的优势是什么，最大的弱点又是什么？也许我们身上真的存在一些不为人知的特性？

评论翻译DrWhoisOverRated

We're great at killing business according to articles that my aunt shares on facebook.

（马萨诸塞）我们会因为看了姨妈分享在脸书上的文章，就害死一堆企业，我们可擅长这个了 0

If the diamond industry completely dies because of millennials, I'll consider that a massive win.

（回复）（加州）如果钻石行业因为千禧一代而彻底完蛋，我会将其视为一场大胜利。 0

Glitter-Pompeiigugudan

Millennials will be powerful in the near future.

I think one strength we have is that most of us knew a world before the internet changed every aspect of modern life. We watched the world transform while we were young enough to adapt to it, but not so young we didn't understand it. Its a unique perspective I think.

我觉得我们的一大优势在于：我们大部分人都晓得在互联网改变现代生活方方面面之前的那个世界是什么样子。我们见证了那个世界的变易，虽然尚年轻的我们能够适应它，但我们还没有年轻到无法理解它。我觉得我们的这种视角是独一无二的。 0

Agreed. I think it makes us the most adaptable generation going forward for a while. Until there is some major leap in technology and our daily lives.

（回复）（阿拉斯加）同意。我认为正是这一点让我们成为了在今后相当长的一段时间内适应力最强的一代人。直到科技和我们的日常生活发生某种重大飞跃。

千禧一代在不久的将来会很得势的。

I'm Gen X - a generation we seem to be skipping in national politics. We're still electing fucking baby boomers at alzheimer's age to president when the last two presidents historically should've been Gen X.

我是X世代的，我们这代人在国家政治中似乎被遗漏了。被我们选出来当总统的，至今都是那些该死的已经到了罹患老年痴呆症年纪的婴儿潮世代的人，而之前的两任总统本该是X世代的人。

Your strength is that everyone underestimates and doubts you. You're a powerful, well educated generation. You've experienced a global recession, you've seen market manipulation and a host of other unethical things done for the sake of money. You'll make the country a better place as a result, much like the silent generation did.

你们千禧一代的优势在于：所有人都在低估和质疑你们。你们是强大的、受过良好教育的一代人。你们经历过全球经济衰退，见证过市场操纵和其他很多为了钱而作出的不道德之事。你们会让这个国家变得更好，这就很像沉默的一代。

A lot of our current leaders aren't even boomers, they're older than that. Biden, Pelosi, and mcconnell are all pre-boomer.

（回复）（明尼苏达）我们有很多现任领导人连婴儿潮一代都不是，他们比那代人还要老。拜登、佩洛西和麦康奈尔全都是婴儿潮一代之前的人。

I think this is the consequence of being the cohort immediately following a particularly large cohort. I remember seeing a lecture a while back that outlined a number of the ways the baby boomer generation has warped politics and policies around their own interests simply because they are so large as a voting bloc. It's unfortunate that the collateral damage is the Gen Xers.

（回复）我觉得这是紧跟在规模特别大的一代人身后带来的后果。我还记得在不久前听过一个讲座，其中概述了婴儿潮一代为了增进他们自身的利益而扭曲政治和政策的很多手法，而依靠的仅仅是他们这个投票阵营的巨大规模。不幸的是，这就连带伤害到了X世代。

State of Long Island

The weakness is the cynicism. Everyone is so cynical. I can’t stand it.

（长岛）弱点就是犬儒主义。每个人都重度犬儒化了。这一点我无法忍受。 0

It's hard not to be when you're constantly told when you're growing up that if you get good grades and go to college you'll practically be guaranteed a good career and prosperity and then you graduate with a huge amount of debt and no jobs.

（回复）（明尼苏达）可是很难不变成这样啊，因为在你长大的过程中大家一直在告诉你说，只要拿到好分数，上了大学，基本上你就能有很不错的职业发展，就能飞黄腾达，可等你一毕业却背上了巨额债务，也找不到工作。

VVillyD

I think us millennials have the best typing skills of any generation in history, and no generation in the future will be better typists than us. To be clear, I'm talking about using a computer keyboard for typing. We're faster and more accurate than all previous generations were and than any future generation will be.

（马里兰）我认为我们千禧一代的打字技术是所有世代中最棒的，未来也不会再出现比我们打字技巧更高的世代了。澄清一下，我说的是使用电脑键盘打字。我们的手速比之前的所有世代以及之后会出现的所有世代都要快，也更准确。

The thing is, we grew up socializing over a keyboard. I took typing lessons in school, but I really learned how to type quickly chatting with friends over AIM or MSN Messenger. Earlier generations certainly learned how to type for school or work, but they didn't type to socialize like we did. And if you look at Gen Z now, they don't type on a computer to socialize. They use phones. Future generations might continue using phones, or use talk-to-text, or maybe some sort of neural interface to just think their words to appear.

问题在于，我们是一路用键盘社交成长起来的。我在学校里上过打字课，但真正让我学会高速打字的，是通过AIM或MSN和朋友聊天。之前的几代人为了上学或工作，当然也是学过打字的，但他们和我们不同，不是靠打字来社交的。而如果你去看今天的Z世代，他们并不是靠在电脑上打字来社交的。他们用的是手机。未来的世代也许会继续使用手机，或是使用语音输入，或是使用某种能接连神经的界面，只要脑中想到字词，就能示现。

Us millennials are the masters of the computer keyboard and will be forever.

我们千禧一代是电脑键盘大师，这顶桂冠永远属于我们。

I wonder if the keyboard will become obsolete one day however.

（回复）（德州）不过我还很好奇，有一天键盘会不会过时。

ImNoSheeple

I think our strength is mostly touched upon here, that we lived in a world without technology like we do today. I was born in ‘93, had older siblings that were more into the internet at an earlier stage than me in the late ‘90s, but I obviously remember the turn of the century, 9/11, technology boom, economic collapse, etc.

（马萨诸塞）我觉得我们的优势评论区里大都提到了，也就是我们曾经生活在一个不具备今天这些技术的世界里。我生于93年，也有比我年长的兄弟姐妹，他们投身网络是在更早的时候，不像我是在九十年代末，但我清楚地记得世纪之交、911事件、科技繁荣、经济崩溃等事件。

It’s crazy because I remember 9/11 well and we have people today that are about to turn 20 this year, almost able to drink, and they have absolutely no recollection of it.

这事儿想起来就很疯狂，因为911我记得很清楚，可现在有一些快到二十岁的人，都快到能喝酒的年纪了，可他们却完全记不起来。

Was born in 93 myself here lol. I remember those as well. The recession hit my family especially hard. I guess it's a good thing now looking back. Helped us a lot when it came to financial hardship for millennials even though we were kids back then.

（回复）（德州）呵呵我也是93年生人。我也清楚记得那些事件。那次经济衰退对我家人的打击特别惨重。我猜，现在回看的时候，那也算是件好事吧。经济困难对我们千禧一代的帮助很大，尽管当时的我们还只是孩子。

Jinzodefiler

Well I was born in 1984.. I was Last of the Gen X and First of the Millennials and a mix of Both.

（俄亥俄）好吧，我是84年生人..我是X世代的尾巴，也是头一批千禧一代，两者的特质我是兼备的。

Strengths: We can work really well for the most part in groups as this was really encouraged through school.

We can be very idealistic and optimistic at times.

We are good and adept with most forms of technology. (Some more than others but at least most of us know how to use a desktop computer basically)

We really have taken the concept of simple living. I really notice this in a lot of professionals.

长处：

-在团队协作中，我们大多能表现得很出色，因为这是学校大力推动的技能

-有时我们会非常理想主义，且乐观

-我们擅长大部分科技形态，也熟稔于此。（精通程度各有不同，但台式机的基本操作，至少我们大部分人还是会的）

-我们在真正意义上奉持了简单生活这种理念。我在很多专业人士身上都注意到了这一点

Weaknesses: We take setbacks way too hard emotionally when it should really a learning experice.

We really try to over complicate things unnecessarily.

短处：

-我们在遭受挫折时，感情上受到的的打击过大，而挫折本该是一种学习的经历

-我们会想方设法把各种事情毫无必要地复杂化

willmaster123

I have on the cusp of gen x and millennial so I have some insight I suppose

（俄裔，布鲁克林）我介于X世代和千禧一代之间，所以我想我自己也是洞察到了一些东西的。

Strengths:

much more frugal, urban, and willing to live more minimalist lifestyles than gen x and boomers who loved big SUV’s and suburban McMansions.

more political, for better or worse

dramatically more educated on topics such as history and geography than generations above them, largely due to the internet

more responsible in terms of safety and health in many ways

more willing to deal with shitty economic conditions in life

长处：

-节俭程度和市民化程度都要高得多，也比X世代和婴儿潮一代更愿意采取更极简主义的生活方式，后者热衷于大号的SUV和位于郊区的豪宅

-不管好歹，都更政治化

-在历史和地理等领域的学识远超前几代人，这很大程度上是拜互联网所赐

-在很多方面，对安全和健康都更上心

-更愿意在生活中应付恶劣的经济状况 

Weaknesses

while they are more responsible in safety and health, they’re also less disciplined, hence obesity rates

millennials statistically are a very self contained generation. The percentage of youth with friends 10 years above them has rapidly declined since the 80s

millennials largely have given up on music as a driving force in culture, instead having it sectioned off into little niche scenes

a weird obsession with childish media such as cartoons or Harry Potter

-虽然他们对安全和健康更上心，但自律性也更差，所以肥胖率很高

-从统计数字来看，千禧一代是非常孤僻的。年轻人拥有比自己年长10岁的朋友的比率，从80年代开始急剧下降

-千禧一代在很大程度上已经放弃了音乐的文化推动力属性，而是将其分割，并纳入各种小众场景

-对幼稚的媒体（比如卡通或哈利波特）有一种古怪的痴迷

nuckel-avee

Strength: i dont buy shit, dont go out for fun, and only eat one meal a day. Because of this i can survive off of my single fulltime job.

Weakness: chocolates

（南卡）长处：我什么东西都不买，不出去浪，而且一天只吃一顿饭。只有这样我才能靠我那一份全职工作活下去

短处：嗜巧克力

Xx69stayinskool420xX

Our greatest strength: We made being too broke to buy furniture cool, AKA minimalism

Our greatest weakness: We're too broke to buy furniture

（加州）我们最大的优势：我们把穷到买不起家具搞得很酷，美其名曰极简主义

我们最大的弱点：我们穷到买不起家具

DOMSdeluise

I would say our relative youth allows us to be stronger and more athletic than older generations, but our weakness is that zoomers are adults now and could only grow stronger, while we millennials age into weakness and senescence.

（德州）我觉得是相对年轻的我们比老一辈人更身强力壮，但我们的弱点是Z世代现在已经是成年人了，而且只会变得更强，而我们千禧一代会越来越年老力衰。

WearableHeadphones

TIL I’m a millennial. Huh, who woulda thunk.

I’d put our massive migration away from organized religion as huge. It shows we’re freethinkers. We’re taught to question and think outside the box. Rather than just blindly believe what we’re told.

（孟菲斯）今天我才知道我属于千禧一代。哈，谁能想到呢。

我觉得，我们大规模背弃有组织宗教是一件会带来很大影响的事情。这表明我们是自由思想者。学校教会了我们去质疑，去在思考时跳出条条框框。而不是盲目地去相信别人告诉我们的话。

i'm gen X and i really appreciate how you millennials have left organized religion in droves. it gives me hope for the future of humanity.

（回复）（佛罗里达）我是X世代的，我真的很赞赏你们千禧一代人成群地背弃有组织宗教。这就让我对人类的未来充满了希望。

Agattu

As a millennial, I have a pretty dim view of my generation.

（阿拉斯加）作为千禧一代，我对我这代人的看法是相当悲观的。

I think our strengths are related to our experience in regards to technology. Older millennials were born early enough to learn technology as it developed. Computers started showing up in every household around the time we could use a computer, cell phones became more and more accessible as we got to an age that our parents would let us have cell phones. We began communicating via text and the internet due to AIM and the creation of text messaging before people outside of the Military and large businesses began to en masse. I believe that is why our generation seems to adapt better. I don’t meet many millennials using old technology or complaining about new technology. We want it, love it, learn it, and excel at it... but we also have memories and experiences without it so we respect it more than others.

我觉得我们的优势和我们在科技方面的经验有关。年长些的千禧一代出生时间足够早，在技术发展的过程中就已经学会了这些技术。我们学会使用电脑的时候，差不多也是电脑开始出现在每个家庭中的时候，而当我们长到父母允许我们拥有手机的年纪时，手机也已经变得越来越普及了。由于AIM和短信的发明，在军队和大企业以外的人开始集体使用手机之前，我们就开始通过短信和互联网进行交流了。我相信这就是为什么我们这一代人似乎拥有更好的适应能力。我碰到的千禧一代中，没有什么人在使用旧的技术或是抱怨新的技术。我们想要它、喜欢它、学习它，也很擅长它…但我们也拥有它们尚不存在时的记忆和体验，所以我们比别人更尊重它。

Our weaknesses are plentiful in my experience. Education wise I feel that millennials have been mislead in regards to the importance of a college education. That lead to a large portion of our generation getting a degree and spending money on a degree without looking at the future. Sure a history degree is great, but if you have no career goals in mind, it’s going to be a hard field to make a living in.

以我的经验，我们的缺点是有很多的。在教育方面，我感觉千禧一代在大学教育的重要性上被误导了。这也导致我们这一代人中有很大一部分人拿到了学位，而且把钱花在了拿学位上，却没有去着眼未来。历史学位固然很好，但如果你心中没有职业目标，那就很难在这个领域中谋生。

Because of that financial burden, we have lead ourselves to believe that we deserve more when we do graduate. We expect to be able to afford things, and do things that our parents did at the same age level without taking into account the jobs, titles, and roles we do. This is why our generation comes off as entitled, and it is because we kind of are.

由于拿学位带来的这种经济负担，我们骗自己说，当我们真的毕业时，我们理应得到更多。在我们的期望中，我们能买得起各种东西，而且能去做那些我们父母在同样年龄中能做的事情，却没有考虑到我们的工作、头衔和角色。这就是为什么我们这一代人表现出的是“很多东西是我们理应得到的”，因为在某种程度上我们确实如此。

Another weakness is, again in my experience, that people don’t want to take on challenging tasks. A lot of the millennials I know that are stuck in retail, food service, or other low paying thankless jobs are there for a few reasons. Leaving out those that are less fortunate and couldn’t go to college,trade school, or community college to get a degree of some form, most millennials are there because they are snobs. They care more about living in a certain place or working in a certain field than they do about actually getting a high paid job. I’m not saying they would rather be a waitress than a salesman, but when in a highly expensive city in a competitive market, one cannot assume they will get a job in their field. The amount of millennials I have met not willing to take a job beneath their “status” is really high. They went to college for Christ’s sake, they can’t take a job as an electrician, or in construction, or driving long haul trucks. And god forbid you ask them to live in a non-trendy place or big city to get the job they need instead of a job they want.

另一个缺点同样也是根据我的经验总结出的：人们不愿意接受有挑战性的任务。我认识的很多千禧一代都陷在零售、餐饮服务或其他吃力不讨好的低薪工作中，原因有几个。撇开那些不够幸运，上不了大学、职校或社区大学也便拿不到某种形式的学位的人，大多数千禧一代仍然在那些地方工作是因为他们是势利眼。他们更在乎的是在特定的地方生活或是在特定的领域中工作，而不是真正得到一份高薪的工作。我并不是说他们宁可做服务生也不愿意做销售，但如果是在一个生活成本很高的城市，在一个竞争激烈的市场中，那就不能想当然地认为他们能在自己的领域中得到一份工作。在我见过的千禧一代中，不愿意接受比他们的“身份地位”下贱的工作的人真的很多。他们因为莫名其妙的原因去上了大学，他们不愿意接受电工和建筑业的工作，也不愿意去开长途卡车。而且你就是不可以要求他们去不时髦的地方或大城市生活，好找到他们需要的工作，而不是他们想要的工作。

Finally our biggest problem as a generation, in my opinion, is our care for status. We care too much about status. We care about being able to show off how good life is on social media. We want to feel better about ourselves by showing how much we have or can do. I think this is the main cause for a lot of our ‘entitlement’, and why we are viewed as having mismatched priorities. I think this also fuels the political motivations of some in our generation because they see others having what they want, but obtaining that seems impossible to them.

最后，在我看来，我们这一代人最大的问题就是在乎身份地位。我们太在乎身份地位了。我们在乎的是能够在社交媒体上炫耀自己的生活有多好。我们希望通过展示我们所拥有的东西或我们有能力做的事情，来让自己感觉更良好。我认为这就是我们产生了很多“自我重要感”的主要原因，这也是为什么别人眼中的我们，设置的优先级与自身资质不匹配。我想这也助长了我们这一代中一部分人的政治动机，因为他们看到别人拥有他们想要的东西，但对他们来说似乎不可能得到。

Anyways, say what you want, but these are my thoughts on my generation.

无论你怎么看，反正这些就是我对我们这一代人的看法。

wormbreath

I think we are more likely to break free from what generations before did, get married young, have kids, go to church. We are paving our own way, putting off marriage and children and leaving religion behind, we are free thinkers in that way. I’m a millennial who left religion, didn’t get married until my 30’s and am not having children.

我觉得我们更有可能挣脱前几代人的行为定势，趁着年轻结婚，要孩子，上教堂。我们正在开辟自己的道路，推迟结婚和要小孩，离弃宗教，我们以这种方式成为了自由思考者。我是一个离开了宗教，上了30岁才结婚，也不打算要孩子的千禧一代。

MetroBS

Strength: We exist

American millennials are the only millennial cohort anywhere in the developed world who have about the same numbers as the baby boomers. The fact that we exist is wonders for the American economy and is unique to the United States. For example, in about ten years we will fill out the tax paying class in a way that Gen X never could, and our consumption alone has kept the US out of recession for the past ten years (covid non withstanding)

（特拉华）优势：我们的存在本身

在发达国家的千禧一代中，只有美国的千禧一代在人数上和婴儿潮一代相当。事实就是，我们的存在本身就给美国经济带来了奇迹，这也是美国独有的情况。比如说，大约十年内，我们就会以一种X世代从未做到过的方式填补纳税阶层，而且单单是我们的消费，就已经在过去十年中让美国摆脱了衰退（尽管出现了新冠）

Weaknesses: everything about cancel culture

缺点：有关取消文化的一切

（译注：取消文化即以个人抵制或公开羞辱的方式报复或惩罚某个出现争议性举止的公众人物） 

wogggieee

We've had a fair amount of adversity in our lives which I think makes us fairly resilient. I don't know if it's necessarily a weakness or a victim of circumstances but the level of debt we have holds us back.

（明尼苏达）我们在人生中经历过相当多的逆境，我觉得这会让我们拥有相当高强的复原能力。我也不清楚这是否一定就是缺点，还是说是受大环境的拖累，但我们的债务水平让我们踟蹰不前。

Carloverguy20

The great thing about our generation is that we are very tech savvy, most grew up with computers, video camera recorders, video games, cable TV, early internet and early social media. Millennials are also more progressive and open to interracial dating, friendships, opposite sex friendships, same-sex dating, and don't care about getting married young, having kids and living the nuclear family life.

（芝加哥）我们这一代人身上最棒的特质就是，我们精通技术，大部分人都是在电脑、摄像机、电子游戏、有线电视、早期的互联网和早期的社交媒体中泡大的。千禧一代的思想也更为进步，对于跨种族约会、友谊、异性友谊、同性约会都比较开放，对于很年轻就结婚、生孩子和过核心家庭生活也不怎么上心。

（译注：核心家庭一般指由父母和孩子两代人组成的家庭） 

The weaknesses the millennials have are that, we aren't as outgoing as the older generations were when they were our age, and are less risk-takers too.

千禧一代人的弱点是，老一辈人在我们这个年纪时，我们是不如他们那么外向的，我们也更不愿意承担风险。

I heard about this, millennials don't have the risk tolerance as we did compared to our previous generations. I see that as a very bad thing. We need to have this generation take more risks, I wonder what's the root cause to that.

（回复）我听说过这个问题，我们千禧一代不具备之前世代的风险承受力。我觉得这就挺糟糕的。我们必须让这一代人勇于承担更多的风险。我很好奇这背后的根源是什么。

LavaringX

Very tolerant and chill, but like other generations in the U.S. somewhat ignorant to the outside world.

忍耐力很强，也很冷静，但就像美国的其他世代一样，对外部世界有几分无知。