Choosing your generation?

[Ghost]

(11-21-2019, 11:43 PM)Teejay Wrote:

(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.

The impression I got from speaking to old T4T forum members. Is that American Generation Z cohorts, is there is a split between Civics and Artists. In Australia and Europe on the other-hand they are solid Civics, it is the Millennial cohorts who are split between Late Wave Nomads and Early Wave Civics.

The same people I speak to, have argued that the current Artist generation's first cohorts are in the early 2000's, with the late 1990s cohorts being cuspers.

In the US, it's probably like this:

1993: 100% Civic (started elementary school before the Columbine shootings, spent most of their elementary school years pre-9/11, started middle school before Web 2.0, started high school before the Recession, spent most of their high school years before the release of the iPad, graduated high school before the Trayvon Martin incident, and graduated college before the legalization of gay marriage)
1994: 85% Civic, 15% Artist
1995: 70% Civic, 30% Artist
1996: 60% Civic, 40% Artist
1997: 45% Civic, 55% Artist
1998: 30% Civic, 70% Artist
1999: 15% Civic, 85% Artist
2000: 100% Artist (started elementary school after Web 2.0, spent most of their elementary school years after the Recession, started high school after the legalization of recreational marijuana and the Crimean annexation, spent most of their high school years after the legalization of gay marriage, were still in high school when the Parkland shooting took place, and spent most of their college years after the climate strikes)