• Altima NEO@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Makes sense. Boomers were still young enough to be relevant. GenX was comfortable with their disposable income. And us millennials were in highschool.

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            1 year ago

            Are these generational terms even used to describe people outside of America?

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              1 year ago

              Definitely in other Western countries, at least. Only makes sense for those countries that had a post-WW2 baby boom though.

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              1 year ago

              Right? It’s less messy to compare and complain by generation than by the material conditions. Which aren’t particularly the fault of a generation whom also had their own owning class, their own labor and union involvement, as well as different relations to international finance capital.

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                1 year ago

                Yeah, I mean baby boomers are only called that because it was American soldiers returning from war and having a ton of babies. I have no idea what was going on in other countries, or of they experienced a boom too.

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            1 year ago

            You may be a millennial in spirit, which is what really counts, but I don’t think most people typically consider people born after ~1995 millennials. Being shaped by the years 2000-2010 I always felt was the defining factor, with all that happened technologically and socially.