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> 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 th
by 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.