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Finally! The generations are so sloppily and arbitrarily defined anyway. Yeah, there’s a difference between me at almost 40 and someone in college. There are some things I had more in common with “Gen-X” and some that I had more in common with “millennials,” but then they’d try to define my group as if they were a separate thing on the cusp between the two. Misses the point entirely, there may be tendencies based on age group but everyone’s somewhere on a spectrum of all that stuff.
There are people same age as me that I feel like I share more in common with toddlers (or alternately, geriatrics) than them despite that age similarity.
I agree with you. Flailing around to find some kind of value in generational definitions, the best I can come to is more about eras— times defined by significant events, cultural touchstones, or technologies that influenced, in whatever way, directly or indirectly, the people alive at the time, or perhaps the people coming of age at the time.
Even then, how much does it tell us to think of people in those contexts?