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By request of Ilma
Which Generation are you/do you relate to?
Baby Boomers: Sixties, Woodstock, "Trente glorieuses", economic boom, from Beatles/Rolling Stones to Pink floyd to Clash, progressive/Liberal ideas, BeeGees, Civil Rights, Man on the Moon, The Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, Vietnam war, Disco, LSD/Marijuana. Personalities: Hendrix, Clint Eastwood, Charles Manson, Mao, Muhammad Ali, Paul McCartney, Bruce Lee, James Dean, Martin Luther King, Kubrick, Hitchcock, JFK, Nixon. Movies: The Exorcist, Taxi Driver, Star Wars, Psycho, Clockwork Orange, Greese, The Omen...
Generation X: daughters and sons of Baby boomer; MTV generation, cynical, The Simpsons, prince of Bel Air, Protected sex. Berlin wall, Gulf war, VHS tapes, politically correct, punk, Boys bands, Guns and Roses, Beavies and Butthead, The Simpsons, Ecstasy, dance music, X Files, Sonic Youth, Arcade Games, Culture span from Joy Division/Madonna/Commodore/Atari to Gameboy/Grunge/gangsta rap/Super nintendo/Playstation 1, until 9/11. Personalities: Kurt Cobain, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Maradona, Michael Jordan, Mike Tyson, Tupac until Britney Spears. Movies: Back to the Future, Usual Suspect, Austin Powers, Pulp Fiction, Wayne's World, Rocky III and IV, Rambo, Terminator 2 until Titanic, Fight Club and Matrix (beginning of Gen Y).
Generation Y: Turning point: 9/11, RnB, indie bands, generation iPod/internet/XBOX/Playstation 2 and 3, Laptops, Hipsters, Pokemon, MP3, DVD, DivX, Desperate Housewives, Afghanistan war, MP3 players, South Park, blogging, series downloading (Lost, Breaking Bad...), social networks (Facebook/Twitter), fake 60's nostalgia (Instagram, vintage fashion). Personalities: Osama Ben Laden, Zidane, Georges Bush, Tony Blair, Beckham, Beyonce, Di Caprio, Scarlett Johanson. Movies: Scream, Saw, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars (remake), The Ring, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine, Butterfly Effect...
Generation late Y/early Z: very young, generation Bieber, 3D movies,economic crisis, fake 80's nostalgia, Twilight, Lost footage movies, superhero movies, reality TV, smartphones, TV is unimportant, might turn conservative, virtual reality, rejection of RnB/Rap among white people. Personalities: Justin Bieber, Obama, Lionel Messi, Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift, Hanna Montana, Zac Efron. Movies: Dark Knight Rises, Avatar, GoT... (I don't know this generation that much, you might complete)
The pure Gen Z: Trump, Fourth Turning*, terrorist attacks, ...I have no clue what else
*examples of fourth turnings: 1688 (Cromwell revolution), 1776 (Independance day), 1865 (American civil war), 1940 (WWII), 2020 (??)
(You might complete those lists, I prly forgot obvious things... and the borders between generations are not clear cut, and I made up those references, might be inaccurate.)
Note that this is culture specific too, I focused on American culture.
For more info on generation theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straus...ational_theory
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