People say being a part of a generation doesn't mean anything. I beg to differ. There are clear differences between Gen X and the Millennials and the Z's.
Honestly there's a huge gap in mentality between Old Millennials and younger ones!
@phillycodehound I think a list of world-changing events that a cohort lived through at an age where they understood them would be more significant. Events like Viet Nam, the assassination of the Kennedy brothers, 911, COVID are deeper than arbitrary year choices.
@phillycodehound @chris different collective experiences do have an impact
@phillycodehound But doesn't that final bit prove the opposite point? That people of a similar age, with similar lived experiences are likely to hold similar world views is fine. Arbitrarily assigning those born in specific "blocks" of dates into a group probably doesn't work, though.
Hence "there's a huge gap in mentality between young and old millennials". Millennial therefore isn't a useful term. More likely "those that remember 9/11" or "graduated into the '08 recession" are better groups?
@theadhocracy @phillycodehound No matter where you stick the cutoff, there will always be people on the cusp. Technically I'm gen x and my sister is millenial, but we grew up in the same environment.
Obviously it's not about generation as much as what the world was like during developmental years, so it makes sense for there to be subdivisions within a generation and bleedover between.
Really, it's not so different from decades. 1989 and 1991 were more similar to each other than they were to 1981 and 1999, respectively.
The thing that makes me identify with other people is not when they were born but what their values are.
