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Post by juju on Aug 27, 2020 14:31:33 GMT
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Post by JoeP on Aug 27, 2020 14:33:00 GMT
I don't think that image posted quite as you meant it too ...
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Post by juju on Aug 27, 2020 14:35:15 GMT
I think I’ve fixed it? Was it just blank when you clicked it?
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 27, 2020 16:14:46 GMT
Uh...Well. That's, uh, like, just your opinion, ma'am...
The Dude is a Boomer, fer sure. The actor who played him, Jeff Bridges, was born in 1949, four years older that yours truly. I think we can assume that The Dude was supposed to be a late forties slacker. I mean, really, GenX types don't go around screaming about 'Nam, neither. But the rug just pulls the room together, y'know?
So..That's me, another Boomer. The Space Race generation.
Hmmm...the 'Silent Generation', eh? The 1925-1945 birth years. That makes my father, who was born in 1918, a member of the previous, unnamed generation. But he was the eldest and his youngest brother and all his sisters would fit snuggly in the Silent Generation. Which, by the way, didn't apply to my aunts and uncles; they were pretty loud and vulgar.
ETA: Your meme labels an Xer, Lucy Lawless, as a Boomer, and a real Boomer, Jeff Daniels, as an Xer. Is your meme confused?
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Post by juju on Aug 27, 2020 17:04:46 GMT
Yes, Jeff Bridges abd the character are Boomers, but I think it’s more about the sentiment. Maybe this one is more apt: images.app.goo.gl/siFbJu7KpKQukzTa9Having said that, Gen X is also now being called the ‘Karen’ generation, so their reputation for being relatively chilled out but cynical is not always the case. Gen X are also called the ‘Forgotten generation’, typically latchkey kids born after the stay at home mums of the boomers and before the ‘helicopter’ parents of millennials. The joke is that Gen X were best suited to lockdown having spent our childhoods eating crap and left indoors to our own devices 😂 All generalisations of course. The generation before the Silents is called the Greatest Generation. I didn’t include them because I assumed we didn’t have anyone here that old? Here’s a rough timeline: images.app.goo.gl/9xPbX6xD6ntFEf3c6 ETA: posted wrong link (again). As Gen X I still struggle with technology sometimes 😂
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Post by maurusian on Aug 28, 2020 13:10:36 GMT
Naming generations seems to be more of an Anglo-American thing. Nobody in Morocco bothers to name particular generations, though older people wouldn't shut up about how their generation was better because they were more pious, respectful, and hard-working; which they may be right about, though it's probably more about the conditions where they grew up (tougher conditions tend to build tougher and more disciplined character after all). In the past, special years where major events took place, usually had their own names though (the year of the great famine, the year of Mr bla bla, etc). If people still did that nowadays, 2020 would have been called "the year of Covid" or "the year of Corona" or such.
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Post by whollygoats on Aug 28, 2020 14:10:38 GMT
Naming generations seems to be more of an Anglo-American thing. Nobody in Morocco bothers to name particular generations, though older people wouldn't shut up about how their generation was better because they were more pious, respectful, and hard-working; which they may be right about, though it's probably more about the conditions where they grew up (tougher conditions tend to build tougher and more disciplined character after all). In the past, special years where major events took place, usually had their own names though (the year of the great famine, the year of Mr bla bla, etc). If people still did that nowadays, 2020 would have been called "the year of Covid" or "the year of Corona" or such. Oh, we do that, too. I did it in my post, when I referred to my generation as the 'Space Race' generation. We were also the 'Vietnam' generation in the US. The prior generation is considered 'the Atomic generation'. They were also the 'Depression' and 'Great Patriotic War' generation.
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Post by juju on Aug 28, 2020 15:17:58 GMT
Here's another graphic: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_Generation#/media/File:Generation_timeline.svgI think naming generations in the West is mostly about demographers (and advertisers, marketers etc) identifying trends in generational cohorts. How they think/vote, what their values and influences were and are, and of course what they're likely to respond to (and buy). For example, I've just been reading that there's a lot of 80/90s nostalgia employed in marketing to Gen Xers. Gen X are a much smaller cohort than Boomers or Millennials, so the marketing is more niche. They (we) are supposed to be the most cynical and disaffected generation (think punk, grunge etc). Generalisations, yes, but I think there's some truth in it.
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Post by maurusian on Aug 29, 2020 7:14:27 GMT
Hmm, I wonder if this generation-naming trend would catch on in Morocco at some point. We're usually late on these kind of things (also mostly copying from France). In Germany, it looks like they consider it more like an American thing, though they seem to use it occasionally. Claudia may shed a better light on this though.
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