Time is always going forward.

For years, people have debated about the compositions about various
generations. The more I have researched the differences among the eras of history, the more similarities that I
have witnessed among various generations. For example, we know about the rebellion against the establishment
that Generation X had. We witness the forthright entitlement to justice and human liberation that Millennials
and Zoomers subscribe to. Also, the greatest economic boom in world history has been experienced by Baby
Boomers when they were very young too. Each of these times had people who wanted positive change, who
loved their families, and love causes bigger than themselves individually. What is going on in the world with
our democratic system being threatened to be gone as we know it should make us recognize the importance of
standing up for our human rights indeed. This work is about the various generations for 100 years that
contributed heavily to the cultivation of the progressive changes (like civil rights, environmental protections,
the growth of the economic social safety net, health care, etc.) that helped billions of human beings. Not to
mention that it is important to reiterate the point that liberty is for everyone without exception. Showing the
sublime, illustrious light of truth benefits us all.
 The Table of Contents
1. Prologue 2. The Lost 3. The WWII 4. The Silent
Generation Generation (The Generation
Greatest
Generation)

5. Baby 6. Generation X 7. Generation Y 8. Generation Z

Boomers (Millennials) (Zoomers)

9. Generation 10. Reflections

Alpha
Generations have existed the definition or length of time Generation X was heavily made
throughout the ages of time. that a generation may consist of. up of latch key kids, people
They have massive differences A generation can span about 20 being entrepreneurial, and saw
historically, politically, and years or so. In a generation, you angst plus a musical revolution
culturally. Thought patterns, typically find people in that (with BET, the Box, and MTV.
social movements, and other generation have many I used the phone to send videos
forms of inventions are diverse commonalities with folks in to be shown on Box a lot when I
over the course of time. Yet, other generations. The Greatest was younger). They saw the rise
there are some similarities Generation saw WWII. The of the AIDS epidemic, the
among generations too. Each Greatest Generation saw jazz increase of video games and
generation has people who care plus swing music, the Roaring personal computers, and the
about the oppressed, each Twenties, the Great Depression, start of the popularization of the
generation dealt with family and the old school Age of Internet.
connections, and each Hollywood. The Silent
generation confronted many Generation makes up of those My Generation of the
evils to try to make the society who were leaders in the early Millennials witnessed
reach its highest aspirations. It Civil Rights Movement. They recessions, 9/11, the 1990's, hip
doesn't matter what generation saw McCarthyism, the Cold hop being the dominant musical
folks live in, we all have that War, and the increased usage of genre, and the growth of the
responsibility to advance liberty nuclear technology. Baby movement against police
and justice for all. At the end of Boomers were leaders of brutality. My generation saw the
the day, we want our Counterculture and the anti- rise of social media, the
descendants to live in a better Vietnam War Movement. Baby COVID-19 pandemic, the
world than in the past and the Boomers saw a massive increase regular usage of cell phones, and
present. I'm an older Millennial in educational opportunities as a childhood filled with Internet
as I'm almost 40 years old in colleges plus universities were technology. We were children
2022. Some get confused about massively cheaper back then. when the 1996 Olympics existed
(i.e. I was 13 years old in 1996), some of the young people who born entirely in the 21st century.
and we saw both the end of the witnessed the COVID-19 They never saw the 20th
old school and the start of the pandemic, and many of them century. I lived through both the
new school. Generation Z is the are young activists on social 20th and 21st centuries.
first generation to live with the issues. Generation Alpha is the Therefore, we must appreciate
existence completely of Tik first generation in human history the resiliency of human culture
Tok, other social media to be born into smartphone and do our parts to establish that
accounts, and a youthful technology, and they are human liberation that we all
movement of self-expression. forming their own legacies as I deserve.
Generation Z was born with cell write these words. Generation
phone technology, they are Alpha is the first generation

The Lost Generation

To learn about Generations fully, you must look at themes and concepts chronologically. One of the
early generations of the 20th century was the Lost Generation. This was a time when people were
born from 1883 to 1900. These are the group of young people who lived through the horrors of WWI.
They saw early adulthood during World War I. Many of the survivors of the war were so traumatized
by the violence and death of WWI (filled with tanks, poisonous gas, and mayhem in general), that
some people of this generation felt disillusioned about life totally. Some American expatriate writers
came into Paris during the 1920's. Gertrude Stein coined the term of the Lost Generation. It was
popularized by the author Ernest Hemingway found in his 1926 novel called The Sun Also Rises. The
Lost Generation existed after the Industrial Revolution. They were media consumers, literate, and
had conservative social values for the most part. They lived during the Spanish flu pandemic and saw
the Roaring Twenties. The Roaring Twenties was a cultural revolution in America which was a
prelude to the counterculture of the 1960's. The Roaring Twenties saw the Harlem Renaissance, new
types of movies, sports stars, the growth of the Mafia in America, diverse fashion expressions, and
new prosperity for many human beings in America. It also saw massive anti-black race riots that
killed tons of innocent black Americans too. The Lost Generation saw the Great Depression with
many of their children going into World War II as soldiers, nurses, mail carriers, etc. The last
surviving person, who was known to have been born during the 19th century, died in 2018. Folks who
passed away during this generation were poets like Isaac Rosenberg, Rupert Brooke, Edward
Thomas, and Wilfred Owen. Composer George Butterworth and physicist Henry Moseley passed
away during this era too.

When the Lost Generation grew up, their families were heavily patriarchal with the man being the
breadwinner and primary authority figure. The wife took care of the home and children. Not to
mention that many generations would share a home which was common back in the day. Rich
households had domestic workers in them like maids. There were more laws to address child abuse,
child labor, and other terrible work conditions in the world. Beating children was still commonplace.
By the late 19th century and early 20th century, sewer systems, subway systems, and other
infrastructure were modernized to stop the spread of disease like cholera. Electricity was slower and
gas lights plus candles were still used. Children had penny toys and teddy boys and other toys. Many
women worked in industrial jobs during WWI. After the war, women's suffrage existed. This
movement wanted women to have the right to vote which came about by the 1920’s. There was
massive economic instability in places of the world too. When the Lost Generation became middle
aged, they witness World War II and other chaos in the world. The radio educated people and
inspired people to defeat the Axis Powers. By the 1950's and 1960's, the Lost Generation were in their
senior years. They had retirement and saw a world massively changing. Most people of this
generation lived to their late 60's and early 70's. F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby captured the
richer people in The Lost Generation filled with excess and wealth. Many of the famous Lost
Generation members were F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, Ezra
Pound, Jean Rhys, and Sylvia Beach.

Prominent People of the Lost Generation

Ezra Pound Erich Maria Aaron Douglas Augusta Savage Mae West
Remarque
 The WWII Generation (the
Greatest Generation)
After the Lost Generation, there was the Greatest Generation (or the World War II Generation).
These human beings were born from 1901 to 1927. They were shaped heavily by the Great Depression,
and they were heavily participants in World War II. The title of this generation was popularized by
the 1998 book from American journalist Tom Brokaw called "The Greatest Generation." This
generation came of age when the country of America suffered bread lines, and they grew up to defeat
the Nazis and the rest of the Axis Powers during the bloodiest war in human history being World
War II. This generation has also been classified as the G.I. Generation from authors William Strauss
and Neil Howe in their 1991 book entitled, "Generations: The History of America's Future." G.I.
stands for the Americans soldiers during World War II. The members of this generation in their
youth saw the Progressive Era, WWI, The Roaring Twenties, and WWII along with the Spanish Flu
pandemic. When they were children, they saw the radio, cars, and other inventions. They watched
TV during their adulthood. The G.I. Generation witnessed the Golden Age of old school Hollywood.
As children, teens, and adults, they saw comedies, musical films, comedy films, and monster films
plus gangster films. The films shown on the TCM network are readily witnessed by that generation.
Comic books like Superman and Batman were read by them. Also, they sang and participated in jazz,
blues, gospel music, folk music, and swing jazz. The Swing Generation was related to the WWII
generation with fashion, music, and dancing. When the WWII Generation were in their adulthood,
tons of people in the Greatest Generation would listen to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's fireside
chats about the news of the day. World War II transformed everything in the world. World War II
was the bloodiest war in human history filled with about 100 million people who lost their lives. I
am that the Allied Powers defeated the evil Axis Powers too by 1945. The technology that we see
today, and the social changes present now came as a product of WWII.

Prominent People of the G.I. Generation

Ginger Rogers Queen Elizabeth Malcolm X President John F. Marilyn Monroe

II Kennedy

Women of the G.I. Generation saw more job opportunities from working in factories to having more
corporate jobs. Black Americans and other persons of color had many opportunities too, but they
suffered massive racism and discrimination. Economic expansion existed, and people of this
generation fought for civil rights and equality too. Malcolm X was part of the G.I. Generation. He
was older than Dr. King. Dr. King was part of the Silent Generation. After WWII, the G.I.
Generation gave birth to 76 million babies from 1946 to 1964 which is unprecedented in American
history. The G.I. Bill helped to subsidized families. Many people of that time lived in the suburbs,
were conservative, and dealt with the Cold War. Some members of this generation served in the
Korean War. The Second Red Scare existed too. Sexism and racism plus other forms of oppression
existed massively during that time period too. The first member of the Greatest Generation to be
elected President was President John F. Kennedy. JFK led a Space Race against the Soviets. LBJ was
part of this generation who promoted his progressive Great Society programs that helped millions
of the American people. When this generation faced middle age, they saw the civil rights movement,
the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal, and the generational culture clash that continues to this
very day in 2022. Many people of that generation saw WWII, so they became super patriotic. Some
didn't understand how many of the youth and progressives were against the Vietnam War. The
Vietnam War was an unjust war, because North Vietnam was no threat to America, the war could
have been solved easily by peaceful negotiation as early as 1945, it stripped resources from America
that could be better used to fight poverty and racism, the war harmed black lives disproportioned
to the black American total population, and the Gulf of Tonkin resolution was based on a lie. This
generation continued to be heavily conservative in older age like President George H. W. Bush.
President Jimmy Carter is the last surviving President from the Greatest Generation. Many have
been treated for COVID-19 like the 104-year-old man Lee Wooten. Queen Elizabeth II is a member
of the generation. Many British people survived the Blitz or when Nazi bombs killed British people
and destroyed buildings during WWII. People of this generation saw the growth of the independence
of African and Asian nations and other massive changes in the world.

Tons of people, even in July of 2022, don’t know that many

black women were military leaders during WWII. These
women helped to carry mail throughout the frontlines of the
battlefields of Europe during the second world war. These
Sisters risked their lives for our freedom, and their sacrifice
is always respected by us decades later. These human
beings were part of the 6888th Central Postal Directory
Battalion. They refuted lying stereotypes about black
people and women. 885 African American women were
part of this group, and they were part of the Women’s Army
Corps (or WACs).
 The Silent Generation
The Silent Generation was after the G.I. Generation and just before the Baby Boomers. The Silent
Generation included people who were born from 1928 to 1945. There were about 23 million people
of the Silent Generation in America as of 2019. This generation was smaller because during the Great
Depression and WWII, Americans had fewer children. These people are noted for their leadership
roles in the Civil Rights movement, forming modern day rock and roll of the 1950's, and being part
of people who saw massive cultural changes in America. The Silent Generation as a term came from
Time Magazine in a November 5, 1951, article entitled, "The Younger Generation." These human
beings were young adults during the McCarthy Era. Many people in that generation didn't speak out
against McCarthy's extremism and violations of the freedom of speech.
 Prominent People of the Silent Generation

Jane Fonda Jimmie Lee Elizabeth Taylor Muhammad Ali Bruce Lee
Jackson

This generation had strict childhoods in America, Canada, and the UK too. As children, they
experienced the Great Depression firsthand, while their parents reveled in the highs of the Roaring
Twenties. They saw WWII and many lost their fathers and older siblings in the war. Many of them
witnessed the start of the Cold War. By their adulthood, many of them married and had children.
They gave birth to the Baby Boomers. Some waited to have children later to give birth to the
Generation X generation. Many of them had divorces too, because the stigma of divorce rapidly
declined by the 1960's and 1970's. Other people of the Silent Generation rebelled and fought
oppression are Nina Simone, Jerry Rubin, Muhammad Ali, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jimi Hendrix,
Janis Joplin, Jesse Jackson, Joan Baez, Berry Gordy, Amiri Baraka, and other human beings. The Beat
Generation were originated in the Silent Generation.

“In my life, I’ve learned that true

happiness comes from giving.
Helping others along the way
makes you evaluate who you are.
I think that love is what we’re all
searching for. I haven’t come
across anyone who didn’t become
a better person through love.”

-Marla Gibbs
 The Baby Boomers
Baby Boomers are included in some of the most influential generations in human history. They are
younger than the Silent Generation and older than Generation X. They were born from 1946 to 1964,
or part of the post-World War II baby boom. Many of the Baby Boomers are children of the Greatest
Generation or the Silent Generation. They are often the parents of the late Generation Xers and
Millennials. Some late Baby Boomers are parents of some of Generation Z too. The Baby Boomers
had their childhoods in the 1950's and 1960's. They saw cultural changes that caused many of them to
be the first in their families to go into college. They saw the peak of Cold War tensions between
especially America and the Soviet Union. The oldest members were 18 in 1964. Their large size
contributed to the power of the counterculture and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960's. In
many countries, this period was one of deep political instability due to the postwar youth bulge. In
China, boomers lived through the Cultural Revolution and were subject to the one-child policy as
adults. These social changes and rhetoric had an important impact in the perceptions of the boomers,
as well as society's increasingly common tendency to define the world in terms of generations, which
was a relatively new phenomenon. That this group reached puberty and maximum height earlier
than previous generations added to the tension between the generations.
 Some of the Greatest, Most Influential Books of the 20 th Century

The Diary of a Young Roots: The Saga of an The Autobiography 1984 by George
Girl by Anne Frank American Family by of Malcolm X by Orwell (1949)
(1947) Alex Haley (1976) Malcolm X and Alex
Haley (1965)

The Great Gatsby by To the Lighthouse by To Kill A Brave New World by

F. Scott Fitzgerald Virginia Woolf (1927) Mockingbird by Aldous Huxley (1932)
(1925) Harper Lee (1960)

The Catcher in the Ulysses by James Joyce Ralph Ellison’s J. R. R. Tolkien’s The
Rye by J. D. Salinger (1920) Invisible Man (1952) Lord of the Rings
(1951) (1954)
In the West, Baby Boomers came of age with massive government subsidies in postwar times
involving housing, education, civil rights, and voting rights. Many of them believed that they could
change the world. By the 21st century, they make up a large portion of elderly human beings. From
1940 to 1950, there was an increase of 2,357,000 people in the American population. Sylvia F. Porter
wrote about this boom in the May 4, 1951, edition of the New York Post. The first recorded use of
"baby boomer" is in a January 1963 Daily Press article by Leslie J. Nason describing a massive surge of
college enrollments approaching as the oldest boomers were coming of age. The Oxford English
Dictionary dates the modern meaning of the term to a January 23, 1970, article in The Washington
Post. Baby Boomers were too young to remember WWII, but they were old enough to remember the
John F. Kennedy's assassination in many cases. In the US, the generation can be segmented into two
broadly defined cohorts: the "leading-edge baby boomers" are individuals born between 1946 and
1955, those who came of age during the Vietnam War and Civil Rights eras. This group represents
slightly more than half of the generation, or roughly 38,002,000 people of all races. The other half of
the generation, usually called "Generation Jones", but sometimes also called names like the "late
boomers" or "trailing-edge boomers", was born between 1956 and 1964, and came of age after Vietnam
and the Watergate scandal. This second cohort includes about 37,818,000 individuals, according to
Live Births by Age and Mother and Race, 1933–98, published by the Centers for Disease Control's
National Center for Health Statistics. In China, there was the Great Leap Forward of massive
population growth in Communist China. From the early 1930's to the late 1970's, IQ scores increased
rapidly in the Flynn effect. People were more adept at doing many specific tasks involving scientific
and analytical thinking. The reason is that there was more improved nutrition, higher literacy levels,
better educational opportunities, and a more intellectual stimulating environment. The rising
standard of living caused this to be possible for Baby Boomers. Reading literature was very
commonplace during this era of time.
 This was a military attack using napalm near
U.S. troops. The Vietnam War harmed the
lives of Americans and the Vietnamese people.
Since the war’s inception, psychological,
environmental, and social damage have existed.
Heroic voices spoke up against mayhem too.

In many places of the West, social welfare programs helped the economies of many nations from
America to France. With more Baby Boomers going into college, society changed. By the 1950's and
1960's, television was dominant media service stronger than the radio. Baby Boomers were influenced
by music, youth culture, and scholars like Jack Kerouac (and Herbert Marcuse of the Frankfurt
School of Social Theory). Baby Boomers saw a cultural revolution from the Betty Friedan's The
Feminine Mystique in 1963, Dr. King, Malcolm X, Jimi Hendrix, and second wave feminism in
general. Some Baby Boomers were liberals and others were conservatives. Many Baby Boomers
wanted to be open to go against mainstream culture to establish a newer style of living. There were
moderate members of the counterculture and more revolutionary elements in it that wanted radical
change in society. Baby Boomers saw protests, rebellions, civil disobedience, wars, and other conflicts
worldwide. Hippies were popular, but they didn't make up the majority of society. There was a more
permissive attitude about sexuality growing since the 1960's. What was once taboo was shown openly
by the Baby Boomers. The growth of contraception and antibiotics grown the sexual revolution along
with its proponents being funded to show their voices. Second Wave feminism saw the creation of
NOW (the National Organization for Women) and the Equal Rights Amendment movement.
Changes to divorce laws and abortion laws were the signs of that time period. Later, changes
happened in society. Cohabitation increased, divorce rates grown, and we see the mixture of
economic booms and busts since 1968. Baby Boomers were in middle age by the 1990’s and the early
2000s. Some saved money for retirement. Many Boomers don't follow traditional religion. Some Baby
Boomers exited the workforce quicker since the start of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Baby Boomers live longer than previous generations, and they save tons of wealth. Tons of money
are spent on them for resources like medical devices, because the Baby Boomer population is so large
in the world. Most elderly Baby Boomers are conservatives, because on average older people are more
conservative than younger people. Baby Boomers saw massive change in the world from the Apollo
Program, the rise of RFK, the Watergate scandal, the oil crisis of 1973, and the Vietnam War. Famous
Baby Boomers are people like Oprah Winfrey, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Hanks,
George Clooney, Samuel L. Jackson, Steve Jobs, Bono, Julieanna Richardson, Erin Brockovich, Bill
Murray, and other human beings.

Prominent Baby Boomers

Pam Grier Michael Jordan Deepak Chopra, M.D. Erin Brockovich Angela Bassett
 Generation X
Generation X is a highly influential group of people. They are younger than the Baby Boomers and
older than the Millennials. They are people born from 1965 to 1980. There are about 65.2 million
Generation Xers in America alone. Many of them are parents of Millennials and Generation Z. They
were some of the earliest the latchkey generation where kids were given keys by parents to an empty
home. They had less adult supervision than previous generations. They saw massive divorces, the
War on Drugs, and other situations. Some call these people the MTV Generation when they were
teens and young adults in the 1980's and the 1990's. Music videos were abundant. They saw the start
of hip hop, punk, heavy metal, grunge, and other genres of music. They witnessed tons of video games
and movies. Generation X witnessed the end of the Cold War and the growth of capitalism
worldwide. Generation X had cultural angst, suffered more complications economically than Baby
Boomers, and was a time in transition. Some call this generation as the 13th Generation too or the
13th generation since the American independence. Generation X saw birth rates declined in the
West. The birth rate will increase by the 1980's. The oldest Generation X is 57 and the youngest
Generation X person is 42 years old. Individuals born in the Generation X and millennial cusp years
of the late 1970s and early to mid-1980s have been identified by the media as a "microgeneration"
with characteristics of both generations. Names given to these "cuspers" include Xennials,
Generation Catalano, and the Oregon Trail Generation.
Generation X are known to be hardworkers among men and women. They are a diverse
demographic. Many of them had to take on many adult responsibilities as children, because many of
their parents worked tons of hours. Some older Generation X people embraced Reaganomics at the
end of the Carter Presidency years. Generation X people came of age during the 1980's crack
epidemic, the war on drugs, and the prison industrial complex where many African Americans were
impacted in urban communities.

The U.S. Drug turf battles increased violent crime. Crack addiction impacted communities and
families. Between 1984 and 1989, the homicide rate for black males aged 14 to 17 doubled in the U.S.,
and the homicide rate for black males aged 18 to 24 increased almost as much. The crack epidemic
had a destabilizing impact on families, with an increase in the number of children in foster care. In
1986, President Reagan signed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act to enforce strict mandatory minimum
sentencing for drug users. He also increased the federal budget for supply-reduction efforts.

Fear of the impending AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s loomed over the formative years of
Generation X. The emergence of AIDS coincided with Gen X's adolescence, with the disease first
clinically observed in the U.S. in 1981. By 1985, an estimated one-to-two million Americans were
HIV-positive. This particularly hit the LGBT community. As the virus spread, at a time before
effective treatments were available, a public panic ensued. In a panic, bigotry grown. Today, we have
a long way to go, but we have more facts on HIV/AIDS than ever before. Sex education programs in
schools were adapted to address the AIDS epidemic. Generation X saw Atari, Commodore, and
Apple with personal computer devices. They were among the first children to have busing to try to
have integration in public schools. They witnessed Roots and Title IX (passed in 1972) helped young
women especially to have athletic opportunities. Still, racism was very vicious back then like today
in 2022. In the U.S., compared to the boomer generation, Generation X was more educated than
their parents. The share of young adults enrolling in college steadily increased from 1983, before
peaking in 1998. In 1965, as early boomers entered college, total enrollment of new undergraduates
was just over 5.7 million individuals across the public and private sectors. By 1983, the first year of
Gen X college enrollments (as per Pew Research's definition), this figure had reached 12.2 million.
This was an increase of 53%, effectively a doubling in student intake. As the 1990s progressed, Gen X
college enrollments continued to climb, with increased loan borrowing as the cost of an education
became substantially more expensive compared to their peers in the mid-1980s. By 1988, there were
14.3 million people in high education in America. Women outpaced men in completion rates by this
time.
Generation X saw struggles in the job market because of inflation, scandals, and economic changes.
Some Generation X people were disaffected with politics because of political scandals. With the
Berlin Wall gone, some believed in the myth that capitalist neoliberalism was the only economic
system around to embrace. Generation X loved bikes, loved to explore, and were involved in fun.
They were part of the early Internet system with floppy disks, America online, and a massive growth
of business during the 1990's. Many of them were working, forming startup companies, and weren't
slackers. In the U.S., Gen Xers were described as the major heroes of the September 11 terrorist
attacks by author William Strauss. The firefighters and police responding to the attacks were
predominantly from Generation X. Additionally, the leaders of the passenger revolt on United
Airlines Flight 93 were also, by majority, Gen Xers. Author Neil Howe reported survey data which
showed that Gen Xers were cohabiting and getting married in increasing numbers following the
terrorist attacks. Gen X survey respondents reported that they no longer wanted to live alone. Now,
Generation X are in middle age. Many of them live a balanced, active, and happy life. They are self-
reliant, savvy, and love the spirit of entrepreneurship. They grew up in the Golden Age of hip hop.
Many of Generation X hip hop artists are Kane, EPMD, Jungle Brothers, Wu, and other artists.
 Prominent Generation X People

Tichina Tisha Michael Johnson Dwayne Johnson Brandy Norwood

Arnold Campbell

Unlike millennials, Generation X was the last generation in the U.S. for whom higher education was
broadly financially remunerative. In 2019, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis published research
(using data from the 2016 Survey of Consumer Finances) demonstrating that after controlling for
race and age, cohort families with heads of household with post-secondary education and born before
1980 have seen wealth and income premiums, while, for those after 1980, the wealth premium has
weakened to a point of statistical insignificance (in part because of the rising cost of college). The
income premium, while remaining positive, has declined to historic lows, with more pronounced
downward trajectories among heads of household with postgraduate degrees. Hip hop back then was
diverse with artists talking about politics, the streets, sex, and other issues. Public Enemy's Fight the
Power song was an anthem for Generation X hip hop fans. Generation X popularized the
independent film movement in the world.

In cinema, directors Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino, Sofia Coppola, John Singleton, Spike Jonze,
David Fincher, Steven Soderbergh, and Richard Linklater have been called Generation X
filmmakers. Smith is most known for his View Askewniverse films, the flagship film being Clerks,
which is set in New Jersey circa 1994, and focuses on two convenience-store clerks in their twenties.
Linklater's Slacker similarly explores young adult characters who were interested in philosophizing.
Literature grew. Generation X people volunteer, help elderly members of their families, and they
have an increased risk of heart attacks (because of high blood pressure, diabetes, and chronic kidney
disease). About 1 in 7 of all Americans will develop chronic kidney disease in his or her lifetime.
That's real. Generation X are usually the parents of Generation Z, and sometimes millennials. Jason
Dorsey, who works for the Center of Generational Kinetics, observed that like their parents from
Generation X, members of Generation Z tend to be autonomous and pessimistic. They need
validation less than the millennials and typically become financially literate at an earlier age, as many
of their parents bore the full brunt of the Great Recession. Well known Generation X human beings
are: Kobe Bryant, Will Smith, Britney Spears, Martin Lawrence, Robert Downey Jr., Salma Hayek,
Jay Z, Ice Cube, Tupac Shakur, Biggie, Tim Duncan, Usher, Aaliyah, Ron Artest, Venus Williams,
Kate Moss, Shaq, Mariah Carey, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Gwen Stefani, etc.

Generation Y (The Millennials)

Now, my generation is called the Millennials or Generation Y. My generation are people born from
1981 to 1996. Most of us are children of Baby Boomers and Early Generation Xers. Millennials are
often parents of the Generation Alpha. Millennials live in a time of declining fertility rates globally,
and many Millennials get married later in life. Some people are having fewer children than their
predecessors. Many Millennials are less religious but more spiritual. We are the first generation that
grew up in the total Internet Age globally. We saw the end of the old school era and the start of the
new school era of culture. We saw the elevated usage of mobile devices and social media. Millennials
experienced massive economic disruptions from wars and recessions. We lived through crisis after
crisis like 9/11, the war on Terror, the Great Recession, COVID-19, and another recession in 2020 (as
a product of the COVID-19 pandemic). Millennials exists as the oldest of this generation became
adults around the turn of the millennium. I was 18 in 2001.

Authors William Strauss and Neil Howe, known for creating the Strauss–Howe generational theory,
are widely credited with naming the millennials. They coined the term in 1987, around the time
children born in 1982 were entering kindergarten, and the media were first identifying their
prospective link to the impending new millennium as the high school graduating class of 2000. They
wrote about the cohort in their books Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069
(1991) and Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation (2000). The Millennials are also called
Generation Y. From the early 1980's to the mid 1990's, there was an increase of birth rates in America.
Some people call this generation Generation Me, Generation Next, and Generation 9/11. American
sociologist Kathleen Shaputis labeled millennials as the Boomerang Generation or Peter Pan
Generation because of the members' perceived tendency for delaying some rites of passage into
adulthood for longer periods than most generations before them. These labels were also a reference
to a trend toward members living with their parents for longer periods than previous generations.
Kimberly Palmer regards the high cost of housing and higher education, and the relative affluence of
older generations, as among the factors driving the trend.

Millennials saw 9/11, the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Great Recession, the election of President Barack
Obama in 2008, and the Internet explosion. The cohorts born during the cusp years before and after
millennials have been identified as "microgenerations" with characteristics of both generations.
Names given to these cuspers include Xennials, Generation Catalano, the Oregon Trail Generation;
Zennials and Zillennials, respectively. Many scholars define Millennials with the traits of confidence,
tolerance, a sense of entitlement, and other characteristics. Millennials are not narcissistic, but we
just feel that human beings are entitled to justice by birthright.

Psychologists Jean Twenge, W. Keith Campbell, and Ryne A. Sherman analyzed vocabulary test
scores on the U.S. General Social Survey and found that after correcting for education, the use of
sophisticated vocabulary has declined between the mid-1970s and the mid-2010s across all levels of
education, from below high school to graduate school. Those with at least a bachelor's degree saw
the steepest decline. Hence, the gap between people who never received a high-school diploma and
a university graduate has shrunk from an average of 3.4 correct answers in the mid- to late-1970s to
2.9 in the early- to mid-2010s. Higher education offers little to no benefits to verbal ability. Because
those with only a moderate level of vocabulary were more likely to be admitted to university than in
the past, the average for degree holders declined. There are various explanations for this. Back in the
day, tons of people used very eloquent vocabulary. A 2007 report by the National Endowment of the
Arts stated that as a group, American adults were reading for pleasure less often than before. In
particular, Americans aged 15 to 24 spent an average of two hours watching television and only seven
minutes on reading. In 2002, only 52% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 voluntarily read
books, down from 59% in 1992. Reading comprehension skills of American adults of all levels of
education deteriorated between the early 1990s and the early 2000s, especially among those with
advanced degrees. According to employers, almost three quarters of university graduates were
"deficient" in English writing skills. Meanwhile, the reading scores of American tenth-graders proved
mediocre, in fifteenth place out of 31 industrialized nations, and the number of twelfth-graders who
had never read for pleasure doubled to 19%. The lesson here is that you must read to gain cognitive
abilities period. Reading a book or literature for at least 15-30 minutes every day benefits you. That's
common sense.

Despite having the reputation for "killing" many things of value to the older generations, millennials
and Generation Z are nostalgically preserving Polaroid cameras, vinyl records, needlepoint, and
home gardening, to name just some. In fact, Millennials are a key cohort behind the vinyl revival.
However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the early 2020s, certain items whose futures were in
doubt due to a general lack of interest by millennials appear to be reviving with stronger sales than
in previous years, such as canned food. Many artists and other famous human beings of the Millennial
generation are Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Rihanna, Serena Williams, Amandla Stenberg, Lebron James,
John David Washington, Michael B. Jordan, Rihanna, Britney Spears, Nicki Minaj, Meghan Merkle,
and other human beings. More Millennials have selected more than one racial group in abundance
in the 2000 U.S. Census plus beyond. Political scientist Shirley Le Penne argues that for Millennials
"pursuing a sense of belonging becomes a means of achieving a sense of being needed... Millennials
experience belonging by seeking to impact the world." Educational psychologist Elza Venter believes
Millennials are digital natives because they have grown up experiencing digital technology and have
known it all their lives. Prensky coined the concept ‘digital natives’ because the members of the
generation are ‘native speakers of the digital language of computers, video games and the internet’.
This generation's older members use a combination of face-to-face communication and computer
mediated communication, while its younger members use mainly electronic and digital technologies
for interpersonal communication. Fertility rates have declined in Asia and other parts of the world.
This trend is in Europe too.

Millennial population size varies, depending on the definition used. Using its own definition, the
Pew Research Center estimated that millennials comprised 27% of the U.S. population in 2014. In
the same year, using dates ranging from 1982 to 2004, Neil Howe revised the number to over 95
million people in the U.S. In a 2012 Time magazine article, it was estimated that there were
approximately 80 million U.S. millennials. The United States Census Bureau, using birth dates
ranging from 1982 to 2000, stated the estimated number of U.S. millennials in 2015 was 83.1 million
people. In 2017, fewer than 56% millennial were non-Hispanic whites, compared with more than 84%
of Americans in their 70s and 80s, 57% had never been married, and 67% lived in a metropolitan area.
According to the Brookings Institution, millennials are the “demographic bridge between the largely
white older generations (pre-millennials) and much more racially diverse younger generations (post-
millennials)."

In fact, millennials have benefited the least from the economic recovery following the Great
Recession, as average incomes for this generation have fallen at twice the general adult population's
total drop and are likely to be on a path toward lower incomes for at least another decade. According
to a Bloomberg L.P., "Three and a half years after the worst recession since the Great Depression, the
earnings and employment gap between those in the under-35 population and their parents and
grandparents threatens to unravel the American dream of each generation doing better than the last.
The nation's younger workers have benefited least from an economic recovery that has been the most
uneven in recent history." Millennials are the most highly educated and culturally diverse group of
all generations and have been regarded as hard to please when it comes to employers. To address
these new challenges, many large firms are currently studying the social and behavioral patterns of
millennials and are trying to devise programs that decrease intergenerational estrangement and
increase relationships of reciprocal understanding between older employees and millennials. The
UK's Institute of Leadership & Management researched the gap in understanding between millennial
recruits and their managers in collaboration with Ashridge Business School. Also, many Millennials
face strokes, heart disease, and diabetes at younger ages. MMA, boxing, the NBA, soccer, and football
are popular among millennials.
 Prominent Millennials

Yara Shahidi Ciara Kendrick Lamar Jazmine Sullivan J. Cole

2018 surveys of American teenagers 13 to 17 and adults aged 18 or over conducted by the Pew Research
Center found that millennials and Generation Z held similar views on various political and social
issues. More specifically, 56% of millennials believed that climate change is real and is due to human
activities while only 8% reject the scientific consensus on climate change. 64% wanted the
government to play a more active role in solving their problems. 65% were indifferent towards pre-
nuptial cohabitation. 48% considered single motherhood to be neither a positive nor a negative for
society. 61% saw increased ethnic or racial diversity as good for society. 47% did the same for same-
sex marriage, and 53% interracial marriage. In most cases, millennials tended hold quite different
views from the Silent Generation, with the Baby Boomers and Generation X in between. In the case
of financial responsibility in a two-parent household, though, majorities from across the generations
answered that it should be shared, with 58% for the Silent Generation, 73% for the Baby Boomers,
78% for Generation X, and 79% for both the millennials and Generation Z. Across all the generations
surveyed, at least 84% thought that both parents ought to be responsible for rearing children. Very
few thought that fathers should be the ones mainly responsible for taking care of children.
Millennials are more willing to vote than previous generations when they were at the same age. With
voter rates being just below 50% for the four presidential cycles before 2017, they have already
surpassed members of Generation X of the same age who were at just 36%. Millennials helped Barack
Obama to be President of America. Digital technology has been used heavily by Millennials too.
Millennials are conscious, educated, adventurous, ambitious, and love travel too.
 Generation Z (Zoomers)
Generation Z or Zoomers are born from 1997 to 2012. They were raised completely on social media
like Tik Tok. Most of them are children of Generation X. They are the first social generation to have
grown up with access to the Internet and portable digital technology. Generation Z include very
progressive people. Many of them have lower rates of teenage pregnancies, consumer alcohol less,
and less likely to use psychoactive drugs. Generation Z view academic performance as very important
along with job prospects. They delay marriage. Generation Z young adults and adolescents have
higher rates of allergies, a higher awareness and diagnoses of mental health issues, and more likely to
be sleep deprived. They are the iGeneration being raised on iPods, iPhones, and iPads. The
Economist has described Generation Z as a more educated, well-behaved, stressed, and depressed
generation in comparison to previous generations. In 2016, the Varkey Foundation and Populus
conducted an international study examining the attitudes of over 20,000 people aged 15 to 21 in
twenty countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia,
Israel, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United
Kingdom, and the United States. They found that Gen Z youth were happy overall with the states
of affairs in their personal lives (59%). Most Generation Z people get along with their families,
teachers, and other people in their communities. Generation Z loves to research issues of nostalgia
in the past from music to cars. Vintage fashion is heavily popular among Millennials and Generation
Z.
Generation Z have a love affair with fan fiction, writing, comics, and pop culture themes like K-pop,
amine, Star Trek, Marvel movies, etc. A survey by the National Literacy Trust from 2019 showed
that only 26% of people below the age of 18 spent at least some time each day reading, the lowest level
since records began in 2005. Interest in reading for pleasure declined with age, with five- to eight-
year-olds being twice as likely to say they enjoyed reading compared to fourteen- to sixteen-year-
olds. There was a significant gender gap in voluntary reading, with only 47% of boys compared to
60% of girls said they read for pleasure. One in three children reported having trouble finding
something interesting to read. Generation Z are heavily found in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and
other places of the world. Generation Z is a very large population with over 2.47 billion people while
Millennials have 2.43 billion people. Generation Z make up the majority of the population of Africa.
Over 1 billion people living in Africa are younger than 25 years old. Many have an increase of
nearsightedness. Food allergies like being allergic to peanuts, etc. are more common among
Generation Z than previous generations.

One possible explanation, supported by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious
Diseases, is that parents keep their children "too clean for their own good". They recommend
exposing newborn babies to a variety of potentially allergenic foods, such as peanut butter before
they reach the age of six months. According to this "hygiene hypothesis", such exposures give the
infant's immune system some exercise, making it less likely to overreact. Evidence for this includes
the fact that children living on a farm are consistently less likely to be allergic than their counterparts
who are raised in the city, and that children born in a developed country to parents who immigrated
from developing nations are more likely to be allergic than their parents are.
 Prominent Zoomers

Billie Eilish Amanda Gorman Simone Biles Lydia Ko Naomi

Osaka

Generation Z are more progressive than previous generations. They want change to fight climate
change. Religion in Western countries are declining while the rest of the world, religion has been
increasing. Generation Z are less likely to use marijuana than older generation when the legalization
of marijuana is increasing in many states of America. Zommers have strong computer literacy. Also,
cyberbullying is more common now than among Millennials. Many girls suffer cyberbullying
constantly. Famous Generation Z members are people like Great Thunberg, X Gonzalez, Paige Layle,
Nadya Okamoto, Genesis Butler, Maya Penn, and other human beings. Generation Z are filled with
influencers, entrepreneurs, and some of the most creative young people of any generation in human
history.

Zoomers have protested for reasonable gun safety measures for years now. This image
showed young kids wanting a safer world in the year of 2018. The source of this picture
is from Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP. The events of Parkland, Uvalde, and other
places of America plus the world (where innocent men, women, and children were
murdered) makes aware that enough is enough. We don’t need the status quo but
revolutionary social change in the Earth.
 Generation Alpha
Generation Alpha are the group of young people born from 2012 to 2025. They are the youngest and
most diverse generation alive today. They are now in elementary school and middle school mostly.
They are much younger than Generation Z. Generation Alpha's birth rates have fallen worldwide.
Their childhood has been dominated by smart technology, social networks, and streaming services.
Many of them have increased allergies as some can't eat peanuts including other foods. Some have
health issues related to increased screen time. COVID-19 will impact this generation for years and
decades to come. By 2025, Generation Alpha is expected to reach two billion human beings.

For comparison, the United Nations estimated that the human population was about 7.8 billion in
2020, up from 2.5 billion in 1950. Roughly three-quarters of all people reside in Africa and Asia in
2020. In fact, most human population growth comes from these two continents, as nations in Europe
and the Americas tend to have too few children to replace themselves.

2018 was the first time when the number of people above 65 years of age (705 million) exceeded those
between the ages of zero and four (680 million). If current trends continue, the ratio between these
two age groups will top two by 2050. Fertility rates have been falling around the world due to rising
standards of living, higher access to contraceptives, and more educational and economic
opportunities. In fact, about half of all countries had sub-replacement fertility in the mid-2010s. The
global average fertility rate in 1950 was 4.7 but dropped to 2.4 in 2017. However, this average mask
the huge variation between countries. Niger has the world's highest fertility rate at 7.1 while Cyprus
has one of the lowest at 1.0. In general, the more developed of countries, including much of Europe,
the United States, South Korea, and Australia, tend to have lower fertility rates. People in such
places tend to have children later and fewer of them. However, surveys conducted in developed
economies suggest that women's desired family sizes tend to be higher than their completed fertility.
Stagnant wages and eroding welfare programs are the contributing factors. While some countries,
such as Sweden and Singapore, have tried various incentives to raise their fertility rates, such policies
have not been particularly successful. Moreover, birth rates following the COVID-19 global
pandemic might drop significantly due to economic recession. As a matter of fact, data from late
2020 and early 2021 suggests that despite hopes (or jokes) of a baby boom due to the lockdowns,
precisely the opposite happened, at least in developed nations like France or the United States, but
not necessarily developing ones, such as Brazil or Uganda.

Education is in fact one of the most important determinants of fertility. The more educated a woman
is, the later she tends to have children, and fewer of them. At the same time, the global average life
expectancy has gone from 52 in 1960 to 72 in 2017. Higher interest in education brings about an
environment in which mortality rates fall, which in turn, increases population density. All these
factors reduce fertility, as does cultural transmission. Increasing immigration is real, while policies
that encourage people to have more children rarely succeed. Moreover, immigration continues to
spread at the global level. During the early to mid-2010s, more babies were born to Christian mothers
than to those of any other religion in the world, reflecting the fact that Christianity remained the
most popular religion in existence. However, it was the Muslims who had a faster rate of growth.
About 33% of the world's babies were born to Christians who made up 31% of the global population
between 2010 and 2015, compared to 31% to Muslims, whose share of the human population was 24%.
During the same period, the religiously unaffiliated (including atheists and agnostics) made up 16%
of the population but gave birth to only 10% of the world's children. Nigeria is having massive
population growth now. Africa's population growth in general has been increasing, its growth now
higher than Asia.
Generation Alpha kids have experienced an increased role of being taught by teachers. They have
access to more digital learning. Some believe that more allergies among children is based on some
parents keeping places too clean without allowing the body to adjust to new environments.
Vaccination rates have dropped in the 2010's among all types of vaccines. Many in Generation Alpha
have obesity and malnutrition. Many youngsters have a lack of vitamins and minerals. There is an
increase of nearsightedness worldwide by regular use of electronic devices and eyestrain. Generation
Alpha already have witness COVID-19, the evil Russian invasion of Ukraine, and other events.
Generation Alpha will reach adulthood by the 2030's. By that time, the human population will be
just under nine billion people. By that time, the world will have the highest ever proportion of
people aged over 60, meaning we have an increasingly aging world population. According to Mark
McCrindle, a social researcher from Australia, Generation Alpha will most likely delay standard life
markers such as marriage, childbirth, and retirements, as did the previous generations. McCrindle
estimated that Generation Alpha will make up 11% of the global workforce by 2030. He also predicted
that they will live longer and have smaller families, and will be "the most formally educated
generation ever, the most technology-supplied generation ever, and globally the wealthiest
generation ever."
The United Nations forecasted that while the global average life expectancy would rise from 70 in
2015 to 83 in 2100, the ratio of people of working age to senior citizens would shrink due to falling
fertility rates worldwide. By 2050, many nations in Asia, Europe, and Latin America would have
fewer than two workers per retiree. U.N. figures show that, leaving out migration, all of Europe,
Japan, and the United States were shrinking in the 2010s, but by 2050, 48 countries and territories
would experience a population decline.

As of 2020, the latest demographic projections from the United Nations predict that there would be
8.5 billion people by 2030, 9.7 billion by 2050, and 10.9 billion by 2100. U.N. calculations assume
countries with especially low fertility rates will see them rise to an average of 1.8 per woman.
However, a 2020 study by researchers from Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME),
University of Washington, published in the Lancet projected there would only be about 8.8 billion
people by 2100, two billion fewer than what the U.N. predicted. Generation Alpha will carry the
torch from previous generations to make their own legacies to make the world better.

The Land Sizes of Continents (in terms of

Percentages)

5%
7%
Asia (including the Middle East)
9% 30%
Africa

North America
12%
South America

Antarctica
16% 21%
Europe

Australia (including Ocenaia)

The World's Population by Continents (in 2020 by
Percents)

0%
7% 1%
9% Asia

Africa

11% Europe
51%
North America

South America

21% Australia/Oceania

Antarctica
Studying the eras of generations in the modern postwar era. Generation X saw angst, the rise of
world is very vital. The reason is that we learn BET and MTV, the Golden Age of Hip Hop, and
lessons, develop plans to make a better future, and a sense of resiliency via individual power. My
realize how much we have in common despite our Generation or the Millennials or Generation Y
numerous differences. At the end of the day, we saw 9/11, the growth of the Internet, the Great
care for our families, we want our communities to Recession, and the pandemic. The Zoomers saw
be strong, and we have a love for the future the complete influence of social media, computer
improvement of our society in general. Not to technology, the January 6, 2021 insurrection
mention that we desire justice and liberty for all. A against the U.S. Capitol, and the legacy of the
generation deals with people born and living pandemic too in their own lives. Generation
during a certain period of time. The average length Alpha are children now, and they have total
of a generation can be from 20-30 years. A domination of technology, increased allergies, and
generation is also called a cohort in social science. a future that they will shape the Earth forever.
Massive events or culturally revolutionary change With fights against police brutality, a new
characterize various generations. For example, the resurgence of far-right extremism, progressive
Silent Generation helped to form the leadership activism, and other developments, it's never a dull
of the Old School civil rights movement and moment in 2022. Yet, we will continue to advance
helped to develop rock and roll music of the the cause of liberty and justice fully.
1950's including the 1960s. The Baby Boomers
were part of the anti-war movement, some were
leaders of the counterculture, and they saw
increasing advancements in education during the
By Timothy

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