Did watching your parents/ older siblings struggle through the 2008 Great Financial Crisis make you highly pragmatic and choose career paths based on tangible utility, financial security, and upward mobility rather than truly pursuing your passion?
Did public trust decay, society fragment into culture wars,, and maximized personal autonomy while civic duty declined?
Did public trust decay, society fragment into culture wars,, and maximized personal autonomy while civic duty declined?
The sociologist historians who came up with all these generations in the first place dubbed the start of the (American) ‘Millennials’ to American graduating high school class of 2000.
Now with American Gen Z the most commonly agreed upon beginning year is 1997, class of 2015, which in the American schooling system did have a lot of unique timely experiences that tie it to the proceeding cohort.
- first to start school after 9/11
- oldest elementary schoolers for the Great Recession and iPhone release
- first to start middle/secondary school under Obama’s first term
- first to graduate high school in the second half of the 2010s
Those born in late 1996 are the oldest class of 2015 members and therefore is when American Gen Z begins.
This is hilarious
It’s not secret that a larger portion of younger people are more politically conservative/right wing than generations before them at the same ages
Checks out right?
In the NBA finals this year you have a team from NYC playing a team from San Antonio. The Stanley cusp has a team from North Carolina and Vegas (boring).
If you don’t remember 9/11, you’re not an early 2000s kid.
If you dont remember the assassination of Bin Laden, you’re not an early 2010s kid.
If you don’t remember the Soviet Union collapse, you’re not an early ‘90s kid
Kids who’re too young to remember or too young to have had a phone at the time
They’re either too young to remember 2016 or were too young to have a phone