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@Goddess Erosia



I really have no idea how to put it any simpler. Call me American, I was born in America. Call me male, I was born male. Call me white, I am white. Call me a Millennial because…??? It's just a label and I reject it. "Born between year A and year B" is not a valid enough reason for me, sorry not sorry.

Scientific labels exist for good reason, especially when we're talking about anthropology and archaeology. It only gets annoying when people misuse or abuse information.Suppose you go to ancestry.com and find out you're 95% French and 5% African. Those are two different groups of people, they exist, or existed. Look deeper and you can find out specifically what ethnicity those ancestors might have been, what their culture was, exactly what kind of genetics you have and from what specific groups of people came together in a specific region and when.Those are groups that you are associated with, whatever they may be. No one's saying any of these groups are inferior in some way, they just exist. If we stopped making labels and organizing people into groups, we wouldn't know what the fuck anything is ever. It's not wrong or tacky for us to study this, it's the pursuit of knowing what this world is.That's different from ideas of segregation like you seem to be thinking of. When a society says black people are not allowed to drink from the same water fountain as white people, that's them imposing a bullshit law that makes no sense, that as based entirely on a racist cultural attitude towards that kind of people — hell go even farther in history and you would find racists who would try to argue that black people aren't even people, and compare them to lesser animals. But the fact of the matter is….black people exist. That's obviously not what they're scientifically called, but that's a group of people that is real, they exist. How they are treated in whatever region or time period they're in depends on society and whether or not it sucks.What really makes good people in a modern society is when we decide to /stop caring/ about these differences of group association, and instead care that they are people. People like you. People who could be your coworker, your boss, your friend, your spouse, just like any other person. Good people don't care about any of that bullshit, they just go about living their lives. Bad people care a lot, they see someone associated with a group, and they hate them because they hate that group. Those bad people, are stupid, and act without logic or reason. Scientists label groups because they acknowledge that a thing exists, and then moves on, because real scientists typically don't care either — not unless their job specifically requires them to look into a specific group of people further, for what ever reason they were told to.This makes absolutely no sense to me. You can disagree with what the word millennial typically implies, but those implications are mostly from bad media and dumb memes. The actual definition is literally "someone reaching young adulthood in the early 21st century". By that definition…..you are a millennial. That's what you find in a dictionary. You don't have to "fight the validity" of that term when it exists literally to say just your general age-bracket. You validate it by EXISTING.Slang and stereotypes are different and bullshit and it's perfectly reasonable to be angry with them. That's shit you find in an /urban/ dictionary. That's when society takes a legitimate word, and bastardizes it in some way. It's that version of the word that you should have a problem with — the meme version. The legit version applies to you though.Actually hell, even looking through urban dictionary, their definition is a lot more neutral than I thought it'd be. The main definition is just saying it describes a group of people from either 1991 or 1981 who grew up in a society that was very technology-oriented. Generation Y being influenced heavily by the beginning of the internet and flip-phones, and generation X being influenced by tablets and apps.