Generations, an OT rant

James Wrote:
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> hank Wrote:
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> > But hey, if
> > that's the way you roll, OK Boomer.
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> Since you used it: Where'd this one pop up from?

Answered by others.


> Since I'm a generation X-er
ah, the tenth 20 year period since the founding of the nation, chosen by the original author (in some book in the late 70's or early 80's, I've forgotten the title) as the adoption of the Articles of Confederation (1779 or 81, depending if you choose day voted out by Congress or day ratified) for his chart of "The Generations of America." Either way, me too.
Note the definition was NOT "the generation after the Boomers" for two reasons: the Baby Boom was from late '42 (or early '43) until '57 or so. Not a generation as not 20 years. Under the scheme that gave us Gen X the Boomers are a subset of Gen IX.
On a personal note I still remember the Boomers dissing people my age, calling us the "Me Generation" and bragging about how they stopped The War, killed Jim Crow, etc, etc, etc.[1} My fave was the claim that "when WE smoked pot (dropped acid, whatever) it was a political statement, YOU bums just want to get high." then they had the nerve to try, in the mid-eighties, to draft me into their "Baby Boom Generation" nonsense to make their numbers better? H*LL NO, I WON'T GO!"

> the generation everyone else seems to forget
> about) I suppose that means I can be annoyed with
> both boomers and millennials at the same time.

My daughter, born 1987, rejects the Millennial tag since it should be balanced, same number of years on either side of the Millennium (1/1/01) so to include her it would have to go to 2015! She also points out that part of the definition is "Digital Native" which she takes to mean "Grew up with a smart phone in hand" which lets her and her age group out. So she's Gen XI (eleven) aka Gen Y (for those who don't get Roman Numerals).

> On
> a similar note, I haven't seen any catchy terms
> coined yet for today's young children.

You mean Gen XII (aka Z, 1999-2018 or so, same comment as above) or Gen XIII (2019-38 or so)? Latter is a problem for the X-Y-Z crowd, isn't it? Maybe take a cue from math and start using Greek or Hebrew letters?

Don't worry, I'm sure that something will turn up.

Hank

PS 20 year generations (a definition for demographers) are silly anyway. My Da was 39 and Mother was 37 when I was born. My ex-wife's older daughter, the one she was forced to give up, just had her 2nd child a year or two ago at age 40!

[1] Pretty much all done by people older than the Boomers, as I recall things.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 01/25/2020 11:36AM by hank.