Recognize the difference between "temporal generations" at 20 year intervals, and "cultural generations" at 10 year intervals past 1945, and a whole new world of understanding opens up to you.
As technology and culture changes faster and faster, generation gaps get wider and wider, therefore "cultural generations" need to be shorter and shorter.
I'd go as far as to stop counting modern periods as decades and replace it with quinquennials (shame the word is a handful). The 90s should be the first decade to be split into two.
I don’t like to define generations by explicit years, but more by cultural turning points that define them. In my opinion, “Gen Z” is people who are too young to have conscious memory of 9/11, but old enough to consciously remember life before it was dramatically affected by iPhones.
Thoroughly disagree with that generation chart; Baby Boomers are from 1944-65 or so, 66-1984 is Gen X, and Gen Y/Millennial 1985-1996 I believe it is, and Zoomers are from 1996 or so until 2008.
The misunderstanding arises from what the chart is modeling. It's concerned with generations in terms of formative experience, general outlook, and corresponding behavior, not biology.
In that sense, it will give more accurate and useful descriptions and predictions than models that lump people who grew up pre-internet and 9-11 in with those who had smartphones in grade school but no personal memories of boarding a plane without getting frisked.
Almost no listing of the Zoomers includes people who grew up pre-9/11. As someone, who most charts put as Zoomer but your chart puts as Millennial, I have far more in common with people born in 2004 than someone born in 93
Recognize the difference between "temporal generations" at 20 year intervals, and "cultural generations" at 10 year intervals past 1945, and a whole new world of understanding opens up to you.
As technology and culture changes faster and faster, generation gaps get wider and wider, therefore "cultural generations" need to be shorter and shorter.
I'd go as far as to stop counting modern periods as decades and replace it with quinquennials (shame the word is a handful). The 90s should be the first decade to be split into two.
As an old zoomer I feel I must read this… saved
I don’t like to define generations by explicit years, but more by cultural turning points that define them. In my opinion, “Gen Z” is people who are too young to have conscious memory of 9/11, but old enough to consciously remember life before it was dramatically affected by iPhones.
Thoroughly disagree with that generation chart; Baby Boomers are from 1944-65 or so, 66-1984 is Gen X, and Gen Y/Millennial 1985-1996 I believe it is, and Zoomers are from 1996 or so until 2008.
The misunderstanding arises from what the chart is modeling. It's concerned with generations in terms of formative experience, general outlook, and corresponding behavior, not biology.
In that sense, it will give more accurate and useful descriptions and predictions than models that lump people who grew up pre-internet and 9-11 in with those who had smartphones in grade school but no personal memories of boarding a plane without getting frisked.
Almost no listing of the Zoomers includes people who grew up pre-9/11. As someone, who most charts put as Zoomer but your chart puts as Millennial, I have far more in common with people born in 2004 than someone born in 93
Oh I see