This shit really shatters my fantasy of post gen x people fostering a genuinely more empathetic and moral culture.
I think generational divides are real, but the way people delineate them completely suck. The lines should be drawn based on huge historic moments like world wars or economic depressions, not just an arbitrary date or timeframe. It also has to consider offset between a person’s birth and the cultural moment. Obviously, someone born a day before 9/11 shouldn’t be categorized with people who grew up in a pre-9/11 world.
Just consider the US. There’s essentially 4 youngish generations:
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People born too late to remember a Cold War world but born early enough to remember a pre-9/11 world. (Age: 27-37)
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People born too late to remember a pre-9/11 world but born early enough to remember a pre-Great Recession world. (Age: 20-27)
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People born too late to remember a pre-Great Recession world but born early enough to remember a pre-Covid world. (Age: 8-20)
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People born too late to remember a pre-Covid world. (Age: 0-8)
1 is millennials and 4 is gen alpha. But what of 2 and 3? Most people would lump them together as zoomers or lump 3 and 4 as gen alpha while keeping 2 as zoomers.
