The ‘millenial’ demographic and future generations are going to continue to be the most diverse generations in american history, an article by Pew Research that defines Millenials as people born after 1980 claims that “43% of Millennial adults are non-white"(D’Vera and Caumont). Generations have been steadily becoming more and more educated while being hit harder by the recession than other age groups. ("Millennials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change.", 2010) As well as being “Less Religiously Active than Older Americans”.
2. Come up with one specific, representative detail about your imagined reader that helps you understand who they are concretely. i.e. background, education, culture, etc.
However diverse and educated and not religiously active American Millennials are they are still American’s and with that comes a whole multitude of dynamic beliefs and opinions. Each and every last one of them believes that America is the place where, regardless of the political and social climate, they can practice those beliefs and shout those opinions freely. This is what all Americans share, millennial are just coming into they’re own and starting to add to the national voice. This brings forth the question in their mind about what change they would like to see in the world and how to implicate that. Millennials are ready to strike.
3. List the principles relevant to your issue that you and this person probably share.
Everyone likes Thanksgiving, generally speaking.
We can all agree Native American’s got a raw deal
Mashed potatoes and gravy are good any time of year
4. List the principles relevant to your issue that you and this person probably do not share.
Tradition is over rated
It’s a necessary change
5. Do any of the principles in 4 represent insurmountable obstacles to them accepting your argument?
Probably for some people. I really should add to the list.
6. Where will you and this reader find common ground?
I’d like to argue that American holidays have been somewhat taken over by capitalism. That tradition really can be proven to be somewhat a myth, especially the myth that Thanksgiving is founded upon.
7. Are there any issues on which you are not willing to concede ground to your listener or where you will feel the need to explicitly reject their principles?
Yeah tradition is over rated, specifically this one. I’ve got a few things I need to research before I can fully explicate that argument but I think there’s going to be sufficient historical and hopefully ironic information out there supporting that.
8. Where in your paper will you explicitly acknowledge and respond to possible objections that this audience might have?
This is going to be like that paper “The Rhetoric of the Streets’ with the amount of acknowledging and responding I’m about to throw down
Cohn, D’Vera, and Andrea Caumont. “10 Demographic Trends That Are Shaping the U.S. and the World.” Pew Research Center, Pew Research Center, 2016, www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/03/31/10-demographic-trends-that-are-shaping-the-u-s-and-the-world/.
Ryan, Camille L, and Kurt Bauman. “Educational Attainment in the United States: 2015.” Census.gov, US Census Bureau, Mar. 2016, www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2016/demo/p20-578.pdf.
Smith, Samantha. “The Whys and Hows of Generations Research.” Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, Pew Research Center, Mar. 2015, www.people-press.org/2015/09/03/the-whys-and-hows-of-generations-research/.
“Millennials: Confident. Connected. Open to Change.” Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, Pew Research, 24 Feb. 2010, assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2010/10/millennials-confident-connected-open-to-change.pdf. p. 39
Wormald, Benjamin. “Millennial Generation Less Religiously Active than Older Americans.” Pew Research Center's Religion &Amp; Public Life Project, Pew Research Center, 17 Feb. 2010, www.pewforum.org/2010/02/17/millennial-generation-less-religiously-active-than-older-americans/.
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