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What’s with the arbitrary length of “generations”? Shouldnt the same timeframe be considered a “generation” or the word has little meaning. It’s just a categorizing tool to look at specific age groups after all. Instead they vary in length. Most between 15 and 18 years mostly. But then we’re wishy washy about when gen alpha begins and will end and the greatest generation is a whopping 26 years! Wth? And if it as all just arbitrary, who is deciding when one generation ends and another begins?
It’s not arbitrary. Just take a good history book, look out for the years and try to think why that year was chosen. You might even look if the generation time spans are different in the US and Europe.
Condescending and didn’t provide any helpful information. What is this? Stack Overflow?
I just adjusted to your style of writing: Shouting around that this doesn’t make sense. Full stop. No more, no less.
I answered it does make sense. Full stop. And gave you hints how to get it by yourself.
However, you need to invest some brain thoughts by yourself. I‘m not teaching you every little aspect of generations and why they named as is. I would but not in your style of shouting. What is this lazy social media attitude? Or just bad style?
You’re so weirdly judgemental over a single comment. It was a question on lemmy, not my college thesis. Chill the hell out dude.
You are very fast in throwing bad words. Poor style kid
I mean, the linked Wikipedia article literally describes for many of them who coined the terms and, in some cases, why. “The Greatest Generation” is the title of a contemporary book about the people who fought in World War 2 (and their cohort), and the name became popular as a way to describe people of that cohort.
Yeah, a generation is just not (entirely) defined by a specific timeframe but by the things that happen(ed) to them and that concern(ed) them as a societal group. That’s the reason why Gen Alpha is not entirely defined yet, and also why generational lines might differ depending which continent you look at.