At the heart of “OK, Boomer” is the belief that my generation contributed to the serious, even existential, problems in the world that you will enter and lead. Your generation sees the challenges posed by climate change...
Generation Z is broadly defined as the 72 million people bornbetween 1997 and 2012, but Pew Research has recently defined Gen Z as anyone born after 1997. What generation is 1988 considered? Among oldermillennials, those born 1981–1988, Pew Research found that 43% personally identified as memb...
There’s no official consensus on the beginning or end term of Generation Y, and the term may be considered as a pejorative one, just as the term Generation X is sometimes used in a negative sense. Echo boomer may be inaccurate too, since the real rise in birth rates that defines many ...
While many of these events obviously cross and impact multiple generations, they are often considered defining when they occur during a generation's formative and young adult years. Are high schoolers the same generation? People born within a few years of each other may not be of the same soc...
, sometimes abbreviated to Gen-X, is a term used to describe the people born roughly between 1960 and 1980. It is sandwiched between the Baby Boomer and Millennial generations. Stereotyped as having characteristics such as a lack of direction and cynicism, members of this group they have been...
Each different generation has brought a unique blend of experiences, challenges, and opportunities that have shaped the people growing up and living within it. Whether you're a Baby Boomer, a Millennial, or part of Generation Z, your generation has contributed to what is a rich tapestry of ...
What the more pessimistic legislators and commentators forget is that the length of the average lifespan is index-linked to the age at which we feel ourselves to be old. The septuagenarians of the next century will not be considered elderly. And if five generations can live alongside each ot...
while I might have considered the folks who supported “the other guy” naive or misguided, I didn’t think of them as bad. But Trump by any measure is actually a bad, bad man. And he’s bad in many, many ways. So, that makes my response to his supporters quite a problem. In ...
The “you’re supposed to have one” thing pushed me to not have a smart phone for a long time. The more I saw cues that pointed to the expectation that every adult younger than the Baby Boomer generation would have one, the more it made me want to shun them. I was conflicted ...
People born between 1946 and 1964 are considered baby boomers. This generation is named as such because between the end of World War II and the mid-1960s, birth rates spiked around the world. How Large Is the Baby Boomer Generation? There are approximately 73 million baby boomers in the U...