If by group of people, you mean Gen Y bloggers, than I agree. I am generally proud of my generation though because I’ve met a ton of people who don’t at all fit the stereotype that Gen Y bloggers love to perpetuate about us.

Of course general ignorance is an issue but if you read the book, you’ll see Gen Y is out of line with the general population. These people that love to sing the praises of Gen Y? Most of them can’t stand stuff like this because it would require them to read a book and make a thoughtful commentary on it.

I think pulling some random event or statistic or fact out of the air and then using that as a litmus test for whether or not people of your generation is informed is, well, bunk. How many people our parents’ age can explain the Spanish-American war? I mean, it was about as relevant to their time as the Korean war is to ours. If you want to complain about Gen Y, in my opinion, you need a better argument than “Gen Y doesn’t know some random fact about the past.” For instance, I’m much more concerned about the fact that most people my age can’t identify two countries that we’ve been at war with for most of our adult lives on a map than I am that they don’t know anything about the Korean war. I’m even more concerned that most Americans, regardless of generation, can’t do this.

Also, when people make statements like, “This group of people is not so great. Thank god I’m nothing like them!” I always kind of wonder about the person making the statement. Something about the whole having to put someone else down to prop oneself up has never really settled well with me. But, whatever. You have google reader and “diverse interests,” just like 90% of every other person your age. Glad to see you’re distinguishing yourself!

Yeah, and large percentage of the other generations can explain the reasons for the war? Do you know the cause off the top of your head? No Googling.Right. While I can’t get into much detail, it had something to do with the containment policy the US had. The US for afraid that Korea would fall to the communist, the Domino theory, so the US government supported forces that opposed the communist. The war finally resulted in Korea being split. That is off the top of my head, I can give you a better account how Iraq formed, though.

so your post was pretty much Generation Y sucks more than all the other generations.

But in all seriousness, my generation deserves the least respect or appreciation of all generations currently living, except perhaps these Millenials who appear to be twice as selfish, twice as egotistical, twice as impatient and a hundred times stupider than their parents/grandparents/etc were at their age.

Regardless – a lot of opinions formed of Gen Y’s are incorrect (see http://www.personneltoday.com/articles/2008/05/30/46088/generation-y-assumptions-flawed-survey-reveals.html)