CrossCuT Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 (edited) At lunch today my friends and I were disusing the different generations etc. It was quite fun. We tried to look up the approx. date ranges for the different generations.. Boomers: ~40s-60s Generation X: ~60s-80s Millennials (Generation Y): ~80s-00s iGeneration (Generation Z): ~00s-20s But primarily we thought it was interesting that the Millennials are considered to be quite a distinctive group. Easily separating themselves from the previous generations. I found a cool article from Pew discussing all the social and demographic trends of the millennials. http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2014/03/07/millennials-in-adulthood/ Less likely to marry Less Trusting Least Religious, least Patriotic, least environmentally concerned. Edited May 6, 2014 by CrossCuT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrossCuT Posted May 6, 2014 Author Share Posted May 6, 2014 Ps. Totally posted this in the wrong forum. Maybe a mod can move it to Open Mic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 BG like easy requests. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrossCuT Posted May 6, 2014 Author Share Posted May 6, 2014 Thank you Good sir! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Quite welcome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MargaretTeresa Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 It's entertaining to see that I continue to not fall into the "normalized" social/peerage demographic for my group. I am a Millennial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilllabettt Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/04/the-organization-kid/302164/ Analysis by David Brooks. They are cheerful, well socialized, fundamentally conservative, lack angst, ignore moral questions, and long to join the establishment. Basically post-WWII America without the mass ptsd. although now we have had 10 years of war so who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Wednesday Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 But primarily we thought it was interesting that the Millennials are considered to be quite a distinctive group. Easily separating themselves from the previous generations. Said by just about every generation... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blazeingstar Posted May 6, 2014 Share Posted May 6, 2014 Said by just about every generation... Well Sort of--the digital divide is a huge gap....there are only a few times in history....the invention of the printing press, the radio, television that created generational chasms in our society. I remember my great-grandmother crying when her radio soap opera/drama something went off the air in the late 80's. She lamented the idea that her great grandchildren would never know a radio drama, something which she had so loved as a young person and something which scandalized her parents. My grandfather was addicted to TV, and had one in every room, including a portable garage one. He felt TV was the wave of the future and when the computer came along he got one, had fun on it, but in general still regards it as a mostly-usless newfangled thing. Even those in their 40's who are into technology or work around it seem to struggle to keep up in a way that those in their 20's don't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winchester Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 generational chasms Is that where you lot poured your judgment? I was wondering what had happened to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blazeingstar Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 Is that where you lot poured your judgment? I was wondering what had happened to it. As someone on the edge of generation X and gen Y/millenials I can see the gap developing. For instance, pareting has completely changed (as in lillabets article). Rebellion was cool, upset our parents and was expected. At a private college in the early 2000's RA's did room check orientation weekend to ensure that the freshman were not hooking up or at least being safe about it. Today, RA's do room checks to ensure that parents aren't sleeping over on their child's first night in the dorms. The floor programs they want are totally different. It used to be the odd student who didn't know how to do laundry, now the first weekend at school, RA's and mentors stay in the laundry room to help clueless students. Parenting has changed, but electronics have changed a lot more. In a very funny, but very futuristic article from the late 80's a professor lamented the use of inexpensive typewriters that students were able to now afford to put in their dorm room and how he felt this would cause social isolation. My nieces all have laptops or access to them and they are still in grade-school. Their world is different than mine and many of the methods of knowledge repository that we used since the Gutenberg press have literally disappeared. Will this cause huge gaps in what they believe religiously, socially and politically....evidence seems to suggest just that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basilisa Marie Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 Former RA, can confirm what blazing says about incoming freshman. Plus, ya know, all the old stuff like hookups and drug dealing. I don't think technology is ever really going to have big catastrophic effects on our culture. And if it does, it's going to be a slow crawl of change, not something overnight. The only thing really comparable to the printing press is the internet, I think, and if big businesses and certain legislators have their way the wild west/golden age of the internet will soon be over (with no more anonymity and net neutrality). What I think is interesting is the fact that once something goes online, even for a few minutes, it's pretty much there forever. Our parents and grandparents could reasonably get away with shenanigans in their youth and still enjoy a clean, upstanding reputation. With social networking, smartphones, the internet, and all of it, young people have to be taught how to manage their online presence in a way that won't damage their future. So the upstanding guy with a secret wild youth isn't allowed to have a secret wild youth anymore. Not that helicopter parents would let the kid out of their sight, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lilllabettt Posted May 7, 2014 Share Posted May 7, 2014 (edited) I don't think there is anything especially disturbing about the younger generation being dependent on/deferential to authority, wanting to follow the rules, join the establishment ,etc. It's just not something we're used to. **I say this as someone who is a Milennial. I like doing whats expected of me it makes me feel nice. Edited May 7, 2014 by Lilllabettt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MargaretTeresa Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Oops... I just realized I'm a border kid. That explains why I don't fit in with some of my slightly younger peers... (Gen X/Millennial) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristinaTherese Posted May 8, 2014 Share Posted May 8, 2014 Oops... I just realized I'm a border kid. That explains why I don't fit in with some of my slightly younger peers... (Gen X/Millennial)Eh, I was born a bit after the middle (1993), and I don't fit in either. I mean, percentages and statistics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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