07-16-2021, 04:16 PM
(07-16-2021, 07:43 AM)galaxy Wrote: I think you might be overcomplicating it. It's clear that the key divide is having experienced the year of online school, which puts the divide somewhere in the middle of 2002 (the divide between class of 2020/class of 2021).
Those of us born from 1997 to 2005 or so are very keenly aware that we are borderliners, caught between the conflicting definitions of the generational divide (with "Madison Cawthorn is the first Generation Z Congressman" headlines on one side and Generations saying 2004 is Millennial on the other).
The key divide for online school would be the middle of 2001, not the middle of 2002 (the divide between class of 2019/class of 2020). Late 2001 borns who were in the Class of 2020 experienced online school at the tail end of their senior year in 2020.
1997-2000 are purely Millennial and are nowhere near cusp, same as 2004-2005. 1997-2000 would have reached concrete operational stage (7-12) before the Great Recession began, and spent at least a full year in the workforce or in college before the COVID-19 pandemic even began.
2004 and 2005 would have very vague memories of the 3T being only 2 and 3 years old in 2007 respectively, and will likely come of age in a post-pandemic world (2022+)