11-22-2019, 12:37 AM
(11-21-2019, 10:00 PM)Ghost Wrote:(11-21-2019, 07:23 PM)ResidentArtist Wrote: I grapple with this quite a bit. Technically I am within the birth years of the Millennials as dated by Strauss and Howe but am a fairly late one, so I feel much more at home with Gen Z (hence my username). I don't remember 9/11 despite being alive for it. It feels like I've only been watching history happen for as long as I can recall -- which will probably continue until the First Turning.
That's probably just one of the small pieces of the big Millennial puzzle.
A 1999 born (I get that the idea of 1999 borns remembering 9/11 is somewhat outlandish) that lived in NYC at the time is far more likely to remember 9/11 than a 1997 born that lived in Poland.
I even think that 1994 borns have some Generation Z qualities to them, like starting elementary school after the Columbine shootings and still being in elementary school during the start of the Web 2.0 age. They're probably like what 1922 borns are to the GI generation or what 1958 borns are to the Baby Boomer generation.
But yet again, we're only talking about Americans here.
If 1994 is equivalent to 1922 in the GI Generation, then 1973 would be equivalent to 1901. This wouldn't make much sense as 1973 is core Generation X.