Millennials' Opinions on Marriage and Socio-Political Issues

Globalization

• Definition: a process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments of different nations, driven by international trade and investment, and aided by information technology.
• Effects on: environment, culture, political systems, economic development, prosperity, and human physical well-being.
• Objective: integration of economic interests and activities of people around the world, creating a unified system of global economics.

Ethical Issues on Globalization

• Reduction of protectionism can be unfair if not applied fairly.
• Inequality of power leads to exploitation by multinationals.
• Gap between rich and poor: 2.5 billion people live on less than $2 a day and receive only 5% of the world's income.
• Economic globalization marginalizes the poor, destroys the environment, and damages cultures.
• Increases inequality and impoverishes the poor.
• Global problems: pollution, resource shortages, global warming, spread of diseases, and terrorism.

Solutions to Ethical Problems of Globalization

• Countries must accept shared responsibility for managing risks.
• Coordinated action is required to address poverty and malnutrition worldwide.
• International cooperation is needed to address global dangers such as pandemics and climate change.

Filinnials and Millennials

• Millennials: born 1977-1995, characterized by liberal approach to politics, economics, and morality, increased narcissism, and being tech-savvy.
• Filinnials: Filipino Millennials, with a unique cultural identity shaped by the Internet and digital technologies.
• Traits: special, sheltered, confident, team-oriented, conventional, pressured, and achieving.

Ethical Outlook and Cultural Identity

• Millennials are open-minded, pragmatic idealists who want to make the world a better place.
• Supportive of progressive social agendas, including access to affordable contraception and abortion.

Work Ethics

• Millennials are tech-savvy, appreciative of diversity, and skilled in multitasking.
• Negative traits: lack of basic literacy fundamentals, short attention spans, and lack of loyalty to organizations.
• Expect close relationships and frequent feedback from supervisors.

Individualism

• Millennials are often seen as entitled, self-centered, and self-absorbed.
• Individualism reflects in their moral outlook, with morality seen as personal and subjective.

Conflict with Parents

• Millennials are often in conflict with Baby Boomers due to differences in mentality and lifestyles.

• Baby Boomers perceive Millennials as greedy, self-absorbed, and wasteful.### Millennials vs Baby Boomers

• Millennials have a higher unemployment rate than their parents at the same age

• Millennials have higher student debt

• Millennials are reluctant to get married

• 15% of marriages today are between people of different races or ethnicities, compared to less than 3% in the 1960s

• More than a quarter of Asians and Hispanics, 1 out of 6 African Americans, and 10% of whites marry outside their ethnicity

• Half of Millennials think intermarriage is a good thing for society, compared to a third of Baby Boomers

• More Millennials live at home than their parents did at the same age

• 22% of households in the US have two or more adult generations living under the same roof, a level not seen since the end of World War II

Religious Ethics

• Religious ethics concerns beliefs and practices of what is good or bad, right or wrong, virtuous or vicious, from a religious point of view
• Christian ethics, for example, is based on the teachings of Jesus Christ about loving one's neighbor, being a good Samaritan, loving one's enemies, and being guided by the Father's will
• Ethics is concerned with what is good and right for persons and society

Definition of Ethics and Religion

• Ethics is a system of moral principles that affect how people make decisions and lead their lives
• Religion is defined as people's beliefs and opinions concerning the existence, nature, and worship of a deity or deities, and divine involvement in the universe and human life
• The term 'supernatural' means "whatever transcends the powers of nature or human agency"

Relationship between Ethics and Religion

• Many ethicists believe that religion is necessary for the continued survival of morality as an integral part of human life
• The "cut-flowers thesis" states that morality cannot survive in the long run if its ties to religion are cut
• Russian writer Leo Tolstoy made an early statement of this thesis, saying that without religion, there can be no real, sincere morality
• Supporters of this claim argue that morality is currently in a withering stage in this globalized era, and its decline can be identified with the exorbitant secularization of many things