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come on. He is way more close to being a boomer rather than a millennial.
by m00dy 7y ago
come on. He is way more close to being a boomer rather than a millennial.
- chrisco255 7y agoThe cutoff for Baby Boomers is 1962. The first Millennials were born in 1982.
- m00dy 7y agoyou basically assume that generation division is based on uniform distribution on years. But, I don't think that is the way it is.
- barrkel 7y agoGenX are closer to millennials than boomers IMO, at least the stereotypes in my head.
- blowski 7y agoWhat’s the point of these labels? I know 16 year olds that talk like the stereotype of “boomers”, and 70 year olds that talk like “generation z”. Imagine we were making the same kind of generalisations about your gender, skin colour, choice of programming language - what would it add to the conversation? We may as well say “Scorpios like partying where sagitarians prefer reading books”
- mtreis86 7y agoWhile there may not be much value in stereotypes like that, with generations at least we are all somewhat interconnected by historical events. WWII defined one generation, and their kids. 911 defined another. Those things that change us as a society do have some impact.
- johnr2 7y ago> What’s the point of these labels? To dehumanise those they're applied to so you can say bad things about them without feeling guilty.
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- chrisco255 7y agoWe do make generalizations about all the categories you mentioned. Some are harmless some are hurtful. This doesn't mean that demographics are irrelevant or that characteristics are randomly distributed. We are influenced dramatically by the environment we grow up in and nothing is quite so stable as the past. So, your exceptions do not discount the rule. I'll take my generation vs gen Z as an example. I clearly remember 9/11, blowing NES cartridges to get my games to work, rewinding video tapes, making phone calls to friends on a shared line using a corded phone, having to listen to a radio station for 3 hours to hear the one song I liked and then rush to hit record so I could save it for replay, and on and on. I cannot share these experiences with gen Z. They won't ever have that. I can talk about it but it's just like a Boomer telling me about going to Woodstock or making 10 cents an hour bagging groceries, or dodging minefields in Vietnam, or using punch cards to program. Sure I can hear those stories and be amused, shocked or whatever by them...but I'll never know precisely what it was like to go through all that, with the mood of the time.
- rmason 7y agoThe Baby Boomer generation is for those born from 1946 to 1964. The author of this article was born the year the Apple I was launched he's not old!
- barrkel 7y agoGenX, not boomer.
- hestefisk 7y agoI think you forget gen X, which are the kids of the boomers.
- wwweston 7y agoThe first rule of Gen X is that you don't talk about Gen X. Not because it's forbidden or anything (or because they all watched Fight Club), but because everybody just forgets Gen X. The second rule is whatever, man.