Millenials

Star Wars was a pop culture phenomenon that gave Generation X its noticeable and important traits. Thinking about my generation, the changes we have encountered and traits that we have, I think that a pop culture phenomenon that had a huge impact on us was the TV show Friends. It shows many important characteristics of how/what our generation (the millenials) value in life today. For instance, With the development of social media, the millenials put a lot of value into having a large social group. Friends kind of started that movement with this group of 6 people who were all very close; even lived across the hall from each other. This is different from the generations before who tended to stick to one or two close friends. Friends also pushed the idea that marriage and having children weren't necessarily the most important thing and expected of you anymore in our society. None of the characters were married until their late 20's/early 30's and some had children without being married. Casual sex was a veryyy familiar theme on the show, and was always portrayed as normal and accepted, which also plays into the themes of our generation.