The dumbest thing about our move to named generations is that several of the categories overlap, there's gaps between them, and one now covers a period of at least 40 years
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The generation labels also encode a lot of boring nativist assumptions. The country is full of people whose formative years weren't spent in America, or paying much attention to American culture. Just because you don't like your parents doesn't mean I have to dislike mine.
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In my country, the cohort the US calls "boomers" was a generation that grew up with hunger, privation, and political terror. Psychologically, they resemble people who grew up during the Great Depression in the US. My mom's refrigerator is full to bursting, always.
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going to be interesting to watch the upcoming “twenties” overwrite the 1920s namespace
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The Boring 20s?
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Who's we, kemosabe?
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Just responding to this to remind myself to heckle you when everyone starts talking about the Twenties in about sixty days
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