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I consider myself a part of TNG.
Millennial
What’s with the arbitrary length of “generations”? Shouldnt the same timeframe be considered a “generation” or the word has little meaning. It’s just a categorizing tool to look at specific age groups after all. Instead they vary in length. Most between 15 and 18 years mostly. But then we’re wishy washy about when gen alpha begins and will end and the greatest generation is a whopping 26 years! Wth? And if it as all just arbitrary, who is deciding when one generation ends and another begins?
Because generations are culturally defined, I think they’re created by shared cultural events. You’re a Boomer if you can remember Kennedy getting shot and the moon landing, but not the end of WWII. You’re a Millennial if you remember the fall of the Berlin Wall but not Reagan getting shot. You’re Gen Z if you don’t remember 9/11 but do remember COVID.
You’d have to be a very early millennial to remember the fall of the Berlin Wall since the upper end of being a millennial is somewhere between 1993 - 1996. They were not even born yet. The distinguishing event might better be 9/11.
I’m a millennial and the only thing I remember about the Berlin Wall falling is my parents talking about it while I had no idea there had been a wall.
I like it, but not the implementation that the Silent Generation is all dead. People love longer than 70 years (though, not all.)
