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What generation are you? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As a fellow Gen Zer I feel like there is a generational gap. I want to see if I'm trippin or there actually is one.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Born during the very last month of the previous millennium, but I don't know what generation that is.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

If you weren't old enough to understand what was happening when watching the twin towers fall and grasp the gravity of it while it was happening, you're a Zoomer. (And that's a good thing)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Young millennial here. My first memory relating to 9/11 is vaguely being told it was the anniversary of some event that happened the previous year in 2002.

It really wasn't (at least not directly—the aftermath of it certainly was) the big generarion-defining thing Americans like to think it was. The impact on global diplomacy (not least of which is the Iraq and Afghanistan wars), the increased security theatre when travelling on planes. That's certainly a defining generational experience. But the event itself is much less so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Some of them are alphas (?!)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't think any alphas had actually been born yet to witness it let alone comprehend it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

They can even talk back!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Alpha

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

zillenial

[–] SpaceNoodle 6 points 5 months ago

Nope, full Gen Z.