Please read the case carefully. Which argument do you agree with (point or counterpoint)? Justify your debate, you can seek additional information from other sources to justify your reasoning.

Millennials Are More Narcissistic Than Their Parents

POINT

Millennials have some great virtues: As a group, they are technologically savvy, socially tolerant, and engaged. They value their quality of life as equal to their career, seeking a balance between home and work. In these ways, millennials surpass their baby boomer parents, who are less technologically adept, less tolerant, and more localized, and who have a history of striving to get ahead at all costs. However, millennials have a big Achilles heelthey are more narcissistic. Several large-scale, longitudinal studies found that millennials are more likely than baby boomers to have seemingly inflated views of themselves, and psychologists have found narcissism has been growing since the early 1980s. More millennials rate themselves as above average on attributes such as academic ability, leadership, public speaking ability, and writing ability. Millennials are also more likely to agree they would be very good spouses (56 percent, compared to 37 percent among 1980 graduates), parents (54 percent; 36 percent for 1980 graduates), and workers (65 percent; 49 percent for 1980 graduates). Cliff Zukin, a senior faculty fellow at Rutgers University, believes the reason is in the childhood upbringing of millennials. This is the most affirmed generation in history, he said. They were raised believing they could do anything they wanted to, and that they have skills and talents to bring to a job setting. Jean M. Twenge, author of Generation Me, agrees. People were not saying, Believe in yourself and You are special in the 60s. Narcissism is bad for society, and particularly bad for the workplace. [Narcissists] tend to be very self-absorbed; they value fun in their personal and their work life, one administrator said. I cant expect them to work on one project for any amount of time without getting bored.

COUNTERPOINT

Wasnt The Me Generation generations ago? Honestly, every generation thinks they are better than the ones that come after! You can find complaints [about the younger generation] in Greek literature, in the Bible, Professor Cappelli of the Wharton School observed. Theres no evidence Millennials are different. Theyre just younger. While millennials are the twenty-somethings of today, what is universally true is that young people share certain characteristics because they are young. A recent study shows the similarity between how millennials and baby boomers thought about themselves at the same stage of life. As college freshmen, 71 percent of millennials thought they were above average academically, and 63 percent of baby boomers thought the same thing when they were college freshmen. Similarly, 77 percent of millennials believed they were above average in the drive to achieve, versus 68 percent for baby boomers. In other words, Every generation is Generation Me. In some ways, millennials may be less narcissistic than baby boomers today. As one manager observed, [Millennials] dont have that line between work and home that used to exist, so theyre doing Facebook for the company at night, on Saturday or Sunday. We get incredible productivity out of them. Millennials also may be more altruistic. For example, 29 percent of millennials believe individuals have a responsibility to remain involved in issues and causes for the good of all, while only 24 percent of baby boomers feel the same level of responsibility. Rather than comparing different generations, it is more accurate to compare people at one life stage with others at the same life stage. Research supports that people in their twenties tend to be more narcissistic than people in their fifties. Millennials are in their twenties, and many of their parents are in their fifties, and millennials are no more narcissistic than baby boomers were in their youth.

The Answer needs to have at least three paragraphs:

1- Introduction (20% of your post): Start your discussion by summarizing and comparing both point and counterpoint. In this section, highlight any aspect you find valid/invalid in both arguments.

2- Main body (70% of your post): Express your opinion/take a side, justify it, and make your argument. Use the information in the book and/or any other sources you might find suitable to support your claims (Don't forget to cite the sources you use). You are also welcome to share your work experience.

3- Conclusion (10% of your post): Have a short paragraph at the end to sum up your discussion.

Thank you!