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[–] MudMan@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

OK, but... you just said the same thing I said.

To reiterate:

Can you bundle people consistently based on what age they had relative to specific events in history and the shared culture that results from it? Sure.

Is the experience of each of those bundles of people homogeneous worldwide or even in any arbitrary slice of "Western world" you want to pick? Absolutely not.

Or, to go back to the very first post:

I'm annoyed by this on principle and across the board, but I do want to point out that "Greatest Generation" all the way to "Baby Boomers" makes zero sense in most of the planet. You can sooooort of get away with Millenials to Alpha because the Internet is a bad idea, and Gen X at least applies to probably most of Europe as well as the US and Canada, although it's still weird across the board.

But everything before that? Super specifically US-only.

So... is there a point you're making in addition to mine? Because you sound like you disagree, but what you wrote doesn't seem to disagree.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My point was that the dates can stay the same regardless of where you go, even if the stereotypes change.

What it seems like you were saying is that the dates themselves become irrelevant if you leave America. If that's not what you meant, your comment lacked clarity.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago

That is explicitly not what I'm saying.

Can you bundle people consistently based on what age they had relative to specific events in history and the shared culture that results from it? Sure.

I mean, I don't know how much clearer that can be about not saying what you say I'm saying. Yes, you can bundle people consistently on how old they were during the dotcom bubble or 9/11 or whatever else. That's the same thing you're saying. I mean, very clearly what you're saying.

For the record, that doesn't mean everybody will react to those events the same way. 9/11 didn't matter as much in some places of the world as it did in the US or in the countries unlucky enough to be on the reciving end of whatever the hell the US was doing immediately after.

But insofar people of a certain age experience history and culture together, it's a global-enough situation to tag the people that lived that period together. Under no circumstance are Polish or Romanian people who were young adults in the 80s and 90s "Gen X", though. That makes zero sense relative to the reference Gen X is going for. They weren't the aimless drones of capitalism seeking meaning in a lifelong peacetime, they were in "holy shit, stuff is going down" revolutionary mode in a way the US Gen Xers weren't even in living memory of at all. That's not Gen X. That's the opposite of Gen X.