Millennials Forge Generational Personality

Millennials, the American teens and twenty-somethings who are making the passage into adulthood at the start of a new millennium, have begun to forge a generational personality. They are confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat and open to change.

They are more ethnically and racially diverse than older adults. They're less religious, less likely to have served in the military, and are on track to become the most educated generation in American history.

Their entry into careers and first jobs has been badly set back by the Great Recession, but they are more upbeat than their elders about their own economic futures as well as about the overall state of the nation.

The Millennials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change. - Pew Research Center