Lesson II: Challenges of

Filinnials and Millennials

5 Generations that presently make up our
Society (Center for Generational Kinetics)
• Gen Z, IGen or Centennials: Born 1996 and later
• Millennials or Gen Y: Born 1977 to 1995
• Generation X: Born 1965 to 1976
• Baby Boomers: Born 1946 to 1964
• Traditionalists or Silent Generation: Born 1945 and
before
• Millennials are generally the children of baby boomers
and older Gen Xers. Filinnials is a term used to denote
the Filipino Millennials.
 Characteristics of Filinnials
• Increased use of familiarity with communications, media and
digital technologies.
• Increased in liberal approach to politics, economics, and
morality, although this claim is disputed.
 7 Basic Traits ascribed to Millennials
• Special
• Sheltered
• Confident
• Team-oriented
• One study reveals that they have a sense of entitlement and
narcissism/ Generation Me
• Conventional
• Pressured
 Ethical Outlook and Cultural Identity
• Millennials approach to social change as pragmatic idealism
with a deep desire to make the world a better place,
combined with an understanding that doing so requires
building new institutions while working inside and outside
existing institutions.
• Millennials are also labeled as the Boomerang Generation or
Peter Pan Generation, because of their perceived tendency
for delaying some rites of passage into adulthood for longer
periods than most generations before them and for living
with their parents for longer periods than previous
generations.
 Work Ethics
• It is said that whereas Boomers are hardworking,
idealistic, and committed to harmony and Gen
Xers are entrepreneurial, flexible, and self-
reliant, and comfortable with technology, on the
other hand, Millennials are tech-savvy,
appreciative of diversity, and skilled in
multitasking.
 Individualism
• Millennials’ individualism is qualified as the self-
focused time in life. It does not necessarily mean that
they are selfish; it rather means that they have fewer
social rules and obligations, and more freedom to be
self-directed.
 Conflict with Parents
• There is now a common observation that Millennials are
often in conflict with Baby Boomers. For one thing,
Millennials are seen by Baby Boomers as somewhat greedy,
self-absorbed, and wasteful.
• One of the supposed causes of the alleged conflict is the
difference in mentality. The Boomers life principle goes like
this: attain a good education, get a well-paying full-time job,
find a stable partners, purchase a house and a car and
preferably have a child or children.
Major Differences bet. Baby Boomers and
Millennials
• Millennials are more progressive on social issues.
• Millennials are hesitant to identify themselves with a
political party.
• Millennials are less wealthy.
• Millennials are reluctant to get married.
• More millennials live at home than their parents did at the
same age.
Secularism and
humanism
• Secularism is basically an non-theistic belief
system or a worldview which does not
acknowledge supernatural or divine views of
reality.

• As such, it includes atheism, agnosticism,

naturalism, materialism, scientism, Darwinism,
and other ideologies that reject all spiritual
explanations of the world.
• Humanism is a system of thought which gives
emphasis to the value of human beings and favors
man’s thought over faith or religious doctrine.
Originally, the term refers to Renaissance cultural and
intellectual movement featuring the rediscovery of
the arts and philosophies of ancient Greeks and
Romans.

• The word “humanist” is derived from the olden

Italian term umanista which pertains to a teacher or
scholar of classical Greek and Latin literature.
• Though humanism does not necessarily imply
non-theism, before 1800, it began to refer to
beliefs centered on humanity without attention
to any concepts of the supernatural.
• It proposes among others, among others, that the
universe is a natural phenomenon without
supernatural aspect, that this earthly life is the only
life we have, and in the absence of an afterlife and any
pre-determined purpose to the universe, we can act to
give meaning to our respective lives by seeking
happiness in this life and helping others to do the
same.
• As an ethical perspective, humanism refers to a belief
in human-based morality. Rejecting any supernatural
authority, it submits that we can live ethical and
fulfilling lives by placing human well-being, interests,
and happiness at the center of our moral decision
making.
• Denying supernatural and religious views as a basis of
morality and decision-making, secular humanism
affirms some notions of a human nature—human
experience, human need, and human reason– as
ethical foundations.