In Germany, everything from Silent Generation onwards is described in that same way, i.e. (Baby) Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y/Millennials, Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
We'd probably call the Silent Generation more often "Nachkriegsgeneration" (post war generation), with slightly different dates. And I don't think anybody here would call the WW1 Generation the "Greatest Generation", after all, they were the ones who installed the Nazi regime and brought Nazi terror and WW2 into the world.
A subset of Boomers that's more prominent here is the "68er" ('68s), the ones who marched against re-armament and the Vietnam war and for kicking out the old (actual) Nazis from the offices they still held (like judges, university professors, chiefs of police and military, top scientists, journalists, politicians, administrators, company/corp bosses etc.), thus brought much needed reforms/restructuring to our society; and who formed the communist communes and the left-wing extremist terrorist group RAF in the early 1970s.
this one actually doesn’t work bc while there is a more globalized adoption of generations due to the internet, this joke is specifically addressing United States generations which are marked by events that particularly impacted Americans (Greatest Generation with fighting in WWII and rural to urban living, the silent generation with the introduction of divorce and being born post Great Depression, Boomers with the advent of birth control and the sexual revolution, etc)
Yeah, this. There was a "baby boom" after the war because, well, it's better to have a baby in peacetime than in wartime. And of course there was all those husbands coming back from the war.
That's why they're called "boomers", it had nothing to do with birth control.
I think this is partly US Defaultism but also partly just people forgetting history as it recedes further into the past. The kind of right-wing politics that are mainstream now are the same politics that only a tiny number of people held when I was a kid in the 80s, because they were still associated with Nazism. Every day I see things written and hear things said that would have got the writer/speaker's head caved in the 80s.
But both my grandads fought in the war. My dad was born miles from home because London during the blitz was too unsafe for my pregnant gran and she got evacuated to the north. I got all their stories first-hand.
Schools need to teach WW2 and its aftermath better, imo, but I don't know if there's any substitute for your parents and grandparents telling you how it was.
Except all of the things you listed happened just about everywhere and I can assure you that the Great Depression and WW2 had quite an impact on Europe (where I am) and I assume further afield too.
All of those generations are named the same elsewhere. I’m a millennial, my parents are boomers and my nan is silent generation.
Not necessarily everywhere, in Brazil the great depression didn't have such a big impact since our economy was more local, Brazil did take part in WWII, but it was not big enough to cause a baby boom.
Also we should have a name for the generation that lived through the dictatorship (1964 - 1985), and also for the ones that came after 1985 since these two periods are very distinct and represent a big change in the country culture.
Some of these relate to other countries too. Here in NZ we have a generation known as baby boomers, and the greatest generation, and Gen X, and we definitely have millennials and generation Z and alpha exist pretty much everywhere the internet does. The silent generation is the only one I've not heard used here.
Some of the terms may be adopted from all the US media we consume, but they still exist here and elsewhere.
I feel like this system while definitely not unheard of elsewhere, it might actually be more relevant and more used in and around USA. I mean the divisions are arbitrary largely reflect socioeconomic shifts in a particular economy. I feel like a more grounded debate is based on age groups like "young adults" at any given time. when I think about it this system of generations seems very divisive, typical USA/British tradition. but i don't know I'm stoned
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According to this image, having been born in 1975, it looks like they skipped naming my generation 🤷♀️
Edit: looks like that was the joke: self whoosh 🫠
I think that's supposed to be the joke, that Gen X has been missed out
I've whooshed myself, lol
I wondered if that was the joke. But jokes are meant to be funny and … well I didn’t get the joke.
Gen X and Gen X jokes have one thing in common,
They're getting old
Now that is funny.
Yeah it's not funny but I assume that's what the joke was supposed to be
The post is referring to Gen X
I still believe that the generation naming is US defaultism. They're all around something in the US and not universal
Yeah, the kids growing up at the turn of the millennium only applies to the US, because everyone knows the millennium only happened in the USA.
Also, great depression, WWII and the baby boom weren't exactly isolated to the USA either.
Yeah I only hear these from Americans. Gen Z and Gen alpha are the only ones a bit common for most countries I think
Though I can't really speak for other countries. Maybe they do refer some generations as millenials and such
In Germany, everything from Silent Generation onwards is described in that same way, i.e. (Baby) Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y/Millennials, Gen Z and Gen Alpha.
We'd probably call the Silent Generation more often "Nachkriegsgeneration" (post war generation), with slightly different dates. And I don't think anybody here would call the WW1 Generation the "Greatest Generation", after all, they were the ones who installed the Nazi regime and brought Nazi terror and WW2 into the world.
A subset of Boomers that's more prominent here is the "68er" ('68s), the ones who marched against re-armament and the Vietnam war and for kicking out the old (actual) Nazis from the offices they still held (like judges, university professors, chiefs of police and military, top scientists, journalists, politicians, administrators, company/corp bosses etc.), thus brought much needed reforms/restructuring to our society; and who formed the communist communes and the left-wing extremist terrorist group RAF in the early 1970s.
The namings is somewhat used in my country, but the difference is the year range. And I believe it's also like that in another countries.
this one actually doesn’t work bc while there is a more globalized adoption of generations due to the internet, this joke is specifically addressing United States generations which are marked by events that particularly impacted Americans (Greatest Generation with fighting in WWII and rural to urban living, the silent generation with the introduction of divorce and being born post Great Depression, Boomers with the advent of birth control and the sexual revolution, etc)
Birth control had nothing to do with the Boomers generation considering they're called that way because of the insane number of births after WWII.
Yeah, this. There was a "baby boom" after the war because, well, it's better to have a baby in peacetime than in wartime. And of course there was all those husbands coming back from the war.
That's why they're called "boomers", it had nothing to do with birth control.
And that's going to affect Europeans more than Americans, who turned up late to help with the tidying up
I think this is partly US Defaultism but also partly just people forgetting history as it recedes further into the past. The kind of right-wing politics that are mainstream now are the same politics that only a tiny number of people held when I was a kid in the 80s, because they were still associated with Nazism. Every day I see things written and hear things said that would have got the writer/speaker's head caved in the 80s.
But both my grandads fought in the war. My dad was born miles from home because London during the blitz was too unsafe for my pregnant gran and she got evacuated to the north. I got all their stories first-hand.
Schools need to teach WW2 and its aftermath better, imo, but I don't know if there's any substitute for your parents and grandparents telling you how it was.
Only Americans fought in WWII, everybody knows this. Canadian soldiers had nothing to do with the Geneva Checkli…I mean convention.
It's not a war crime the first time it's committed 🙃
Except all of the things you listed happened just about everywhere and I can assure you that the Great Depression and WW2 had quite an impact on Europe (where I am) and I assume further afield too.
All of those generations are named the same elsewhere. I’m a millennial, my parents are boomers and my nan is silent generation.
I guess? Yet somehow, it doesn't feel right to call them the "greatest generation" in Germany, or Italy, or Japan...
Not necessarily everywhere, in Brazil the great depression didn't have such a big impact since our economy was more local, Brazil did take part in WWII, but it was not big enough to cause a baby boom. Also we should have a name for the generation that lived through the dictatorship (1964 - 1985), and also for the ones that came after 1985 since these two periods are very distinct and represent a big change in the country culture.
Oh mate. This is embarrassingly wrong. And what a sub to do this in.
Some of these relate to other countries too. Here in NZ we have a generation known as baby boomers, and the greatest generation, and Gen X, and we definitely have millennials and generation Z and alpha exist pretty much everywhere the internet does. The silent generation is the only one I've not heard used here.
Some of the terms may be adopted from all the US media we consume, but they still exist here and elsewhere.
Did you just commit USdefaultism in r/USdefaultism?
We call the greatest generation the lost generation. Mostly because they are all dead.
r/shitamericanssay
I feel like this system while definitely not unheard of elsewhere, it might actually be more relevant and more used in and around USA. I mean the divisions are arbitrary largely reflect socioeconomic shifts in a particular economy. I feel like a more grounded debate is based on age groups like "young adults" at any given time. when I think about it this system of generations seems very divisive, typical USA/British tradition. but i don't know I'm stoned
Based on this with my new siblin comin soon that would mean quite literally each of my siblings is a different gen 😭
why you censored your name i can literally see rn
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