List of generations
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Generations are extended periods of time that are connected with pop cultures. Many characteristics of these generations are the music, fads, inventions, and wars pertinent to each of them.
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[edit] 20th-21st century America
- The Lost Generation was a term originally used to identify a group of American literary expatriates living in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s; it is now used more generally to describe the generation of young people who came of age in the United States during and shortly after World War I.
- The Greatest Generation is the worldwide generation of Allies that served in World War II. This group overlaps with the G.I. Generation, the generation of veterans that fought and won World War II, later to become the Establishment, and the parents of children who would later become the Baby Boomers.
- The Silent Generation was the generation born between the two World Wars, who were too young to join the service when World War II started. Many had fathers who served in World War I. (1925-1945)
- (born 1944-1960) The Baby Boomers were the generation born just after World War II, a time that included a 14-year increase in birthrate worldwide. Baby Boomers in their teen and college years were characteristically part of the 1960s counterculture, but later became more conservative, eventually gave birth to Generations X and Y. Most academic and demographic literature uses 1946 and 1960 as the cutoff years of the Baby Boom generation.[1]
- Tweener, also known as Generation Jones, is the generation born between the Baby Boomers and Generation X. Tweeners are primarily the offspring of the Silent Generation; mostly they were children in the 1960s, and teens in the 1970s.
- (born 1960-1979) Generation X is the generation born between approximately 1964 to 1981. Other names used interchangeably with Generation X are 13th Generation and Baby Busters. Most of this generation are children of The Baby Boomers and The Silent Generation. They tended to grow up with video games and MTV, and those born before 1973 spent most of their teen years in the 1980s.[2]
- (born 1975-1986) XY Cusp, also known as the MTV Generation, was caught between the end of Generation X and start of Generation Y, mainly living out their childhood through the 80s and teen years in the mid-90s. This generation was influenced by the launch of MTV, and the popularization of Web technology after 1995. Their peak is usually given as (1975-1986). This is also sometimes referred to as the Boomerang Generation.
- (born 1980-2001) Generation Y, also known as the Echo Boom although Millennials or Internet Generation is becoming the more common parlance for this generation. They grew up with many world-changing events including the rise of mass communication, the Internet, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Y Generation is known as a Culture War "battleground" with growing disagreements between conservative and progressive perspectives. 1981-2001 is the widest possible definition commonly cited, but generally speaking is the generation that was born in the 1980s.
- (after 1990) Generation Z, New Silent Generation or Homelander Generation is the youngest of generations thus far. These are the people that are born in the 1990s.
- (born after 1992) Generation I, is the generation born after the internet became mainstream (year 1993). This generation has also been referred to as "digital natives."[3] as well as the "Net Generation." They can come to be known as the Next-Net Generation or N2 Generation, having grown up in an era where the web/internet pervaded every aspect of their lives. These are generally the people that will be coming of age in the 2010s and the 2020s.
[edit] Japanese Americans
The generations of Japanese Americans don't have a unique naming convention, as with American generations. The generations of Japanese Americans are simply labeled "first", "second", "third", "fourth", etc. Because of grammar, some generation names are shortened from their cardinal counterparts (issei and ichi, etc.). All of the names for generations have a -sei suffix, "sei" meaning "generation".
- Issei Japanese Americans (literally "first generation") are first-generation Japanese Americans who arrived in the United States before the Immigration Act of 1924. Japanese Citizens were not allowed to leave Japan legally until 1884.
- Nisei Japanese Americans (literally "second generation") are second-generation, American-born citizens of the United States of Japanese ancestry, who generally reached adulthood by the outbreak of World War II.
- Sansei Japanese Americans (literally "third generation") are third-generation Japanese-Americans, most of whom were born during the baby boom after the end of World War II, and the children of the Nisei Japanese Americans.
- Yonsei Japanese Americans (literally "fourth generation") are fourth-generation Japanese-Americans, most of whom were born during Generation X and Generation Y whose parents are Baby Boomers or Sansei.
[edit] Russian Federation
- 1911-1926 Pioners
- 1927-1945 Shestidesyatnik
- 1946-1963 Boomers
- 1964 -1975 New
- 1976-1981 Perestroika
- 1982-1991 Birth SSSR
- 1992 -2004 Min
- 2005 New Russia
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[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Boomers at Midlife 2004: The AARP Life Stage Study, Wave 3 accessed on 2 October, 2007.
- ^ Generation X Defies Definition accessed 2 October, 2007.
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