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I wonder if it is really possible to compare generations across the world. In my country generations didn't even have a name until recently when 15-20 yo start
by pmontra 3y ago
I wonder if it is really possible to compare generations across the world.
In my country generations didn't even have a name until recently when 15-20 yo started talking about millenials, Z and boomers, where boomers are anybody about the age of their parents and more. Technically most of those parents are generation X, some even Y. I learned it by reading the article now.
Furthermore and more importantly different social and economic dynamics mean that people of the supposed same generation are different, especially when generations span only a few years. They watch the same videos but the world around them could be significantly different. A generation in one part of the world could be more similar to the previous or the next one somewhere else.
Anyway, probably all results still hold true if we think about evaluating the differences between people that entered the job market recently and colleagues that have been working for 10 or 20 years.
- thefz 3y ago> I wonder if it is really possible to compare generations across the world. I find the Gen-XYZ thing to be mostly american culture war. And sadly I think this is just another tool in their culture to create division, and of course conquer as consequence.
- pmontra 3y agoI kind of agree but I think that it could be an internal marketing thing, to create cohorts inside the USA to make it easier to sell every sort of stuff to them. Then it spilled internationally because of the cultural influence of the USA. I'd appreciate if anybody from the USA could tell me if my hypothesis is at least plausible. According to Wikipedia [1] "The contemporary characterization of these cohorts used in media and advertising borrows, in part, from the Strauss–Howe generational theory" but the chart over there despite being captioned as "Timeline of generations in the Western world" seems to be very USA specific given the definitions in the text that follows it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation
- thefz 3y ago> Then it spilled internationally because of the cultural influence of the USA. I don't know, the rare times in which I hear someone use derived terms like "boomer", they get weird looks like they are some sort of imbecile. This kind of division does not get much traction in Europe, I guess.
- Martinussen 3y agoPeople born just after the war in Europe and North America had pretty different degrees of prosperity and struggles to rebuild around them. I just don't think the American sense of the word quite makes sense here.