Talkin' 'bout my "generation"...
Feb. 24th, 2009 09:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
butterflydreamingWhat defines your generation? I kicked around some ideas with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
coffeedaiv about this tonight, and among other things we came up with three types of markers. Who was the big pop star of your early adulthood? Major political event? Fad? This demotes year age from its typical prominence in measuring a generation group.
This came up because I'm prickling at the idea of 18-35 being a reasonable age range as a generation, for interactive purposes other than marketing. I was a 20 year old that dated 30-35 year olds. We were *not* the same generation. And that's a soapbox I've already stood on enough tonight.
I identify as a Cold War child. The significant political event for me is the fall of the Soviet Union (circa 1990, also when I graduated high school). Pop stars that come to mind are of my childhood: Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Menudo. For a little older, the Spice Girls are relevant. The fads were... Super Nintendo, Hypercolor T-shirts... AOL?
What are yours?
coffeedaiv about this tonight, and among other things we came up with three types of markers. Who was the big pop star of your early adulthood? Major political event? Fad? This demotes year age from its typical prominence in measuring a generation group.This came up because I'm prickling at the idea of 18-35 being a reasonable age range as a generation, for interactive purposes other than marketing. I was a 20 year old that dated 30-35 year olds. We were *not* the same generation. And that's a soapbox I've already stood on enough tonight.
I identify as a Cold War child. The significant political event for me is the fall of the Soviet Union (circa 1990, also when I graduated high school). Pop stars that come to mind are of my childhood: Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Menudo. For a little older, the Spice Girls are relevant. The fads were... Super Nintendo, Hypercolor T-shirts... AOL?
What are yours?
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Date: 2009-02-25 02:30 pm (UTC)the ludicrosity of this becomes blatant if you expand it just slightly to 18-36. the 36 year old is twice as old as the 18 year old.
(now, age them both 18 years, and you've got a 36 year old and a 54 year old—they might have more in common...?)