Duke newspaper opinions editor highlights Millennial predicaments

By Jacques Hinkson-Compton, second year graduate student in the Digital Media Arts concentration

Duke opinions editor and senior multiplatform journalism major, Shivani Gosai, recently produced a compelling opinion piece of the current plight of the millennials. The piece entitled ‘How Millennials are de-sensitized to terrorism’ features and examines the unique experiences of young people who would have come of age in the 1990s and 2000s. Experiences include exposure to an unprecedented number of domestic school shootings and global terrorism. Gosai’s piece in addition analyses the possible psychological effect these events have on a generation of young persons.  Each generation has always had its own unique challenges. The Great generation saw the rise of Nazism and fascism in Europe and World War two while the Baby Boomers came of age in the height of the Cold War and the Red Scare. This generation is no different. To read Gosai’s entire article, click here.