Gen Z, Gen X etc and the likewise

@ptrikha_2 (49753)
India
February 8, 2022 12:47pm CST
At times, I am amazed as to how people get into so many research fields, and the amount of research that they do. I was looking at definitions of Gen Z and others and came across this. The Lost Generation. To Quote : "The Lost Generation was the social generational cohort that was in early adulthood during World War I. "Lost" in this context refers to the "disoriented, wandering, directionless" spirit of many of the war's survivors in the early postwar period.[1] The term is also particularly used to refer to a group of American expatriate writers living in Paris during the 1920s. Gertrude Stein is credited with coining the term, and it was subsequently popularized by Ernest Hemingway who used it in the epigraph for his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises: "You are all a lost generation". " By the way, I realized that as I am 1977 born, I am a "late Gen X" person!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Generation
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@DianneN (254949)
• United States
8 Feb 22
Those were difficult years for many. I’m a baby boomer.
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@ptrikha_2 (49753)
• India
9 Feb 22
@DianneN There were more conflicts and movements in those years. But the last two Covid years have also been very tough.
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@ptrikha_2 (49753)
• India
9 Feb 22
@DianneN Everytime I have to change shoes and wear mask while going out, I feel a bit annoyed. And now, I am beginning to feel more impatient.
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@ptrikha_2 (49753)
• India
9 Feb 22
@DianneN Yes but when some things go on for a very long time, they become cumbersome!
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@JudyEv (381815)
• Rockingham, Australia
8 Feb 22
You are what I would call a 'spring chicken' - not that old at all! My sons are older than you are. Like Ocean Tiara, I am a Baby Boomer.
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@ptrikha_2 (49753)
• India
9 Feb 22
@JudyEv Spring Chicken - sounds like something very interesting but I heard for the first time. The latest generation has been named as Alpha.
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@ptrikha_2 (49753)
• India
9 Feb 22
@JudyEv For me, all these are fancy terms. Plus all these seem to be an imagination of American media.
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@ptrikha_2 (49753)
• India
9 Feb 22
@JudyEv I hear of Baby Boomers, Millenials and Gen Z the most. Others are probably lesser used.
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@RebeccasFarm (91299)
• United States
8 Feb 22
Interesting thank you. I am of the Baby Boomers.
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@ptrikha_2 (49753)
• India
8 Feb 22
Yeah but the "Lost Generation" term caught my maximum attention.
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@DaddyEvil (174229)
• United States
9 Feb 22
You are ten years older than Pretty.
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@ptrikha_2 (49753)
• India
9 Feb 22
@DaddyEvil Well now I know ! Any other opinion about Gen X, Z etc categorisation?
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@ptrikha_2 (49753)
• India
9 Feb 22
@DaddyEvil Even there are so called Gen Z folks who behave more like others, but yes, the latest ones Alpha could perhaps be the most intelligent but the most impatient as well. Yet personally I am always against stereotyping or "categorising"!
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@sol_cee (38669)
• Philippines
10 Feb 22
Why’d they start with the bottom letters in the alphabet
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@ptrikha_2 (49753)
• India
10 Feb 22
@sol_cee May be denoting how recent they are? Just guessing!
@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
8 Feb 22
Interesting to think back for sure.
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@ptrikha_2 (49753)
• India
9 Feb 22
@CarolDM Yes, a lot that I learnt.
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@db20747 (43419)
• Washington, District Of Columbia
8 Feb 22
Those categories get on my nerves. They try to put everything in a bag. You don't have to fit in any bag. One generation is linked to the next
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@ptrikha_2 (49753)
• India
9 Feb 22
@db20747 Even I don't always adhere to things like - X can do only this, Y cannot do that, Z cannot be a friend of Y. Many people even subscribe to Numerology and like stuff. All that is a big no for me.