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shadowkat1. Losing a credit card is stressful and annoying, because I had to shift all my automatic payments to another one. So, you have to remember all the automatic payments, then switch them. Life in the digital age. Also had to call the credit card company and request a replacement. Then when I get the replacement, I have to switch everything again.
Oh well, at least the credit card company is easy to deal with. Could be worse.
Tips if this happens to you?
1. Lock your card immediately (you can always unlock)
2. Check your transactions online (see what's pending and ensure nothing that you authorized goes unpaid)
3. Call the company and ensure any automatic get paid, or immediately find another source for the automatic ones.
4. Check all items like Amazon, Netflix, HBO, etc..
5. Get a new card/replacement card immediately
2. 9-1-1 -- this has added David Fury to the writing team, that currently houses Tim Minear and Brad Falchuck as show-runners, and is executive produced and stars Angela Basset and Peter Krause.
It's hands down one of the better procedurals that I've seen. (Still can't hold a candle to The Wire, Homicide Life on the Streets, NYPD Blue and Hill Side Blues, but few can.) It mixes relationship/family drama with procedural, and issue of the week. And has an absurdist sense of humor -- so never quite gets as preachy as David E Kelly. Nor is it quite as gritty or dark as Steven Bocho.
3. Fall Movie Roundup in EW for November through December
Eh...the only ones that look interesting are:
* Motherless Brooklyn (I read the book in the 1990s, and yes, it's taken this long for Edward Norton to get it to the screen. It stars Norton as the detective with asperberger's syndrom, William Defoe, Bruce Willis, Alex Baldwin...and I think Norton directed it.) I would have been more interested in this noirish thriller by Jonathan Lethem, if the movie came out after I'd read the book. OTOH, I've forgotten the book, so it might work better as a movie for me?
* The Irishman -- a Martin Scorsese film about the shooting of Jimmy Hoffa, starring Robert Deniro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino. Enuf said. Oh, and it's on Netflix. (Netflix is doing a lovely job of justifying my subscription with The Laundramat, The Irishman, the Dolly Parton anthology based on her songs, The Politician, among other things. How they can afford over 900 scripted series is beyond me.)
* Terminator: Dark Fate -- Linda Hamilton (as Sarah Connor) is the star, hello. And outside of Arnold Schwernegger, the main stars are women. This time a "female" terminator AI comes back to save a woman from a male terminator. And Linda is around to help, with assist from Arnold. Also it's directed by the original writer/director of the franchise - James Cameron.
(I like the Terminator series -- I admit, I've seen all the films, and the television series. Yes, it's a franchise that I have religiously followed on some level. The worst one was the one with Christian Bale and Tom Hardy -- which almost destroyed the series completely.)
* Doctor Sleep looks interesting. I don't know if I can watch it though.
* Ford vs. Ferrari -- I freely admit that I only want to see this film for Christian Bale. (There's a couple of movie actors that I kind of follow around. If they are in a film, odds are I will find a way to see it. The current group is (they change periodically depending on how fed up I get): Hugh Jackman, Christain Bale, Ian McKellan, Robert Downey Jr., Benedict Cumberbatch, Hugh Laurie....and possibly Idris Elba.
* The Good Liar - see above list (it stars Ian McKellan with bonus points, Helen Mirren who is on my list of preferred female actresses. Many of which have names I can't spell or remember.)
* The Report -- well, yes, see list...Annette Bening and Adam Driver in the story about Feinstein going after the CIA.
*Knives Out -- a clever whodunnit with Chris Evans as a bad guy
* The Two Popes -- ah the list again, Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins in a papal buddy comedy aka historical
* The Aeronauts -- best trailer about hot air balloons.
* Just Mercy - based on the non-fiction book that I managed to skip
Weirdly, I'm ambivalent about Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (yes the combination of the prequels and sequels managed to kill my obsessive love of the series, kudos).
Also, Cats The Musical -- looks scary. I'm not sure what they were thinking. But uhm. Even musical lovers are looking at with fear and consternation. Non-musical lovers seem to be embracing it as validating.
I don't do Terrence Malik. He puts me to sleep. And I'm not sure I'm up to anything else about sexual harrassment at the moment.
4. So...I was trying to figure out the generations...who is in what one, mainly because it is confusing. Also there's quite a bit of disagreement as to when each generation begins and ends. Not to mention overlap.
I found articles to prove my point!
* Here is When Each Generation Begins and Ends According to the Facts.. (Hmm, the facts according to whom? Therein lies the question.)
I started by calling the Census Bureau. A representative called me back, without much information. "We do not define the different generations," she told me. "The only generation we do define is Baby Boomers and that year bracket is from 1946 to 1964."
Next, I spoke with Tom DiPrete, a sociology professor at Columbia University. And he agreed with the Census Bureau. "I think the boundaries end up getting drawn to some extent by the media," DiPrete said, "and the extent to which people accept them or not varies by the generation." DiPrete explained that there was a good sociological reason for identifying the Baby Boom as a discrete generation. It "had specific characteristics," and occurred within an observable timeframe. World War II ended. You had the post-war rise in standard of living and the rise of the nuclear family. Then societal changes disrupted those patterns, and the generation, for academic purposes, was over. His main point: "History isn't always so punctuated."
I understood why Generation X, a generation defined by turmoil and uncertainty, would be poorly defined. But what about Millennials? Doesn't their shared experience of the millennium transition and technology provide similar markers? "I actually haven't seen efforts to document [generations] rigorously, and I would be somewhat skeptical that they can be documented rigorously." DiPrete said. The things that have shaped Millennials — the rise of technology and social networks, for example — "affect people's lives differently."
"The media in particular wants definitions, identities," DiPrete said. "I don't know that the definitions are as strong or as widely shared across all the boundaries. … At the end I think it gets fuzzy."
Well, yeah. We do want definitions. And if it's the media that draws the boundaries, then allow us to do so definitively.
Your official demarcation of generational boundaries
We identified six different generations, and labeled their eras.
Greatest Generation. These are the people that fought and died in World War II for our freedom, which we appreciate. But it's a little over-the-top as far as names go, isn't it? Tom Brokaw made the name up and of course everyone loved it. What, you're going to argue with your grandfather that he isn't in the greatest generation? The generation ended when the war ended.
Baby Boomers. This is the agreed-upon generation that falls within DiPrete's punctuated timeframe. It began when the Greatest Generation got home and started having sex with everyone; it ended when having sex with everyone was made easier with The Pill.
Generation X. George Masnick, of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies puts this generation in the timeframe of 1965 to 1984, in part because it's a neat 20-year period. He also calls it the "baby bust," mocking "[p]undits on Madison Avenue and in the media" that call it Generation X. Ha ha, tough luck.
Generation Y. Masnick addresses this group, too, putting it "anywhere from the mid-1970s when the oldest were born to the mid-2000s when the youngest were." But mostly Generation Y is a made-up generation when it became obvious that young kids didn't really fit with the cool Generation X aesthetic but not enough of them had been born to make a new generation designation. NOTE: Generation Y is a fake, made-up thing. Do not worry about it.
Millennials. In October 2004, researchers Neil Howe and William Strauss called Millennials "the next great generation," which is funny. They define the group as "as those born in 1982 and approximately the 20 years thereafter." In 2012, they affixed the end point as 2004.
TBD. But that means that kids born in the last 10 years lack a designation. They are not Millennials. Earlier this month, Pew Research asked people what the group should be called and offered some terrible ideas. In other words, this is the new Generation Y. We'll figure out what they're called in the future.
[There's even a chart -- but you will need to go to the article for it.]
This by the way leaves out the Silent Generation, the group between the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boom, who are responsible for Generation X. The Baby Boom created the Millenials. Depending on who you talk to.
CNN got in on the act.
The Greatest Generation (or GI Generation)
Born in 1924 or earlier.
Tom Brokaw coined the term the Greatest Generation as a tribute to Americans who lived through the Great Depression and then fought in WWII. His 1998 bestselling book, "The Greatest Generation," popularized the term.
John F. Kennedy, born in 1917, was the first member of the Greatest Generation to become president. Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush were also born between 1901 and 1924.
The Silent Generation
Born 1925-1945 (Sometimes listed as 1925-1942).
A 1951 essay in Time magazine dubbed the people in this age group the "Silent Generation" because they were more cautious than their parents. "By comparison with the 'Flaming Youth' of their fathers & mothers, today's younger generation is a still, small flame."
The Silent Generation helped shape 20th century pop culture, with pioneering rock musicians, iconic filmmakers, television legends, beat poets, gonzo journalists and groundbreaking political satirists.
No members of the Silent Generation have served as president.
Baby Boomers
Born 1946-1964 (Sometimes listed as 1943-1964)
Baby boomers were named for an uptick in the post-WWII birth rate.
At the end of 1946, the first year of the baby boom, there were approximately 2.4 million baby boomers. In 1964, the last year of the baby boom, there were nearly 72.5 million baby boomers. The population peaked in 1999, with 78.8 million baby boomers, including people who immigrated to the United States and were born between 1946 and 1964.
Bill Clinton was the first baby boomer to serve as president. George W. Bush, Barack Obama and President Donald Trump are also baby boomers.
According to the Census, the baby boom began in 1946 but Howe and Strauss, authors of the groundbreaking 1991 book, "Generations: The History of America's Future," argued that the baby boom began as a social and cultural phenomenon with people who were born in 1943.
Generation X
Born 1965-1980 (Sometimes listed as 1965-1979)
"Class X" was the name of a chapter in a 1983 book, "Class: A Guide Through the American Status System," by historian Paul Fussell. Novelist Douglas Coupland used the term as the title of his first book, "Generation X: Tales for An Accelerated Culture," published in 1991.
No members of Generation X have served as president.
Although about 75% of people in this group earn more than baby boomers did when they were the same age, only 36% have more wealth than their parents, due to debt, according to a 2014 Pew report.
In the 2016 presidential election, Generation X-ers and Millennials made up more than half of the electorate, according to Pew. For the first time in decades, younger voters outnumbered older voters, albeit by a slight margin. Millennials and Generation-X-ers (age 18-51), cast 69.6 million votes, compared with 67.9 million votes cast by Baby Boomers and older voters (age 52 and up).
Pew Research projects that in 2028, Generation X-ers will outnumber baby boomers.
Millennials
Born 1981-1996 (Sometimes listed as 1980-2000)
Howe and Strauss introduced the term millennials in 1991, the year their book, "Generations," was published.
In 2014, the number of millennials in the United States eclipsed the number of baby boomers, according to the Census Bureau. The Census counted approximately 83.1 million millennials, compared with 75.4 million baby boomers. Millennials represented one quarter of the nation's population. The Census also reported that millennials are more diverse than previous generations, as 44.2% are part of a minority race or ethnic group.
About 39% of millennials ages 25-37 have a bachelor's degree or higher, a larger percentage than previous generations, according to Pew. Millennials with a bachelor's degree or higher had a median annual earnings valued at $56,000 in 2018, about the same earnings as Generation X workers in 2001. Millennials without a college education had lower earnings that prior generations. About 46% of millennials ages 25-37 were married in 2018, a lower percentage than Generation X (57%), baby boomers (67%) and the Silent Generation (83%).
About 15% of millennials age 25-37 lived at home with their parents as of 2018, according to Pew. Fewer members of older generations lived at home with their parents between the ages of 25-37. The rate for Generation-X was 9%. The rate for Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation was 8%. Education factors into the percentage of millennials living at home. Among millennials without college degrees, 20% lived at home with their parents.
2016 was the first year any millennial was eligible to run for president (the minimum age is 35).
Generation Z or Gen Z (sometimes called post-millennials)
Born 1997-current
In January 2019, Pew announced that the post-millennial cohort will be called Gen Z.
According to Pew, Gen Z is the most racially and ethnically diverse cohort. One in four members of Gen Z are Hispanic while 52% are non-Hispanic white and 14% are black. A total of 6% are Asian and the remaining 4% are of another racial identity, primarily two or more races. The majority of individuals in Gen Z live in metropolitan areas and western states, with just 13% residing in rural areas.
High school completion and college enrollment rates for Gen Z are up, with significant increases for young adults who are Hispanic or African-American, according to Pew. In 2017, 64% of Gen Z women aged 18-20 were enrolled in college, an increase over millennials (57%) and Generation X (43%).
See? This is our difficulty right here -- only the Baby Boomers and Greatest Generation became President. Now if we make it impossible for another Baby Boomer to ever become President -- our world will be saved. (JOKING!) Everyone in the Greatest Generation is either dead or too feeble.
* Not to be outdone... A Career Coach Figures Out What Career You Are Most Fit for Based Solely on The Generation in Which You Were Born...and they've added a few, for those who fall into the overlap
Beginning to see why this is so confusing?
Oh well, at least the credit card company is easy to deal with. Could be worse.
Tips if this happens to you?
1. Lock your card immediately (you can always unlock)
2. Check your transactions online (see what's pending and ensure nothing that you authorized goes unpaid)
3. Call the company and ensure any automatic get paid, or immediately find another source for the automatic ones.
4. Check all items like Amazon, Netflix, HBO, etc..
5. Get a new card/replacement card immediately
2. 9-1-1 -- this has added David Fury to the writing team, that currently houses Tim Minear and Brad Falchuck as show-runners, and is executive produced and stars Angela Basset and Peter Krause.
It's hands down one of the better procedurals that I've seen. (Still can't hold a candle to The Wire, Homicide Life on the Streets, NYPD Blue and Hill Side Blues, but few can.) It mixes relationship/family drama with procedural, and issue of the week. And has an absurdist sense of humor -- so never quite gets as preachy as David E Kelly. Nor is it quite as gritty or dark as Steven Bocho.
3. Fall Movie Roundup in EW for November through December
Eh...the only ones that look interesting are:
* Motherless Brooklyn (I read the book in the 1990s, and yes, it's taken this long for Edward Norton to get it to the screen. It stars Norton as the detective with asperberger's syndrom, William Defoe, Bruce Willis, Alex Baldwin...and I think Norton directed it.) I would have been more interested in this noirish thriller by Jonathan Lethem, if the movie came out after I'd read the book. OTOH, I've forgotten the book, so it might work better as a movie for me?
* The Irishman -- a Martin Scorsese film about the shooting of Jimmy Hoffa, starring Robert Deniro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino. Enuf said. Oh, and it's on Netflix. (Netflix is doing a lovely job of justifying my subscription with The Laundramat, The Irishman, the Dolly Parton anthology based on her songs, The Politician, among other things. How they can afford over 900 scripted series is beyond me.)
* Terminator: Dark Fate -- Linda Hamilton (as Sarah Connor) is the star, hello. And outside of Arnold Schwernegger, the main stars are women. This time a "female" terminator AI comes back to save a woman from a male terminator. And Linda is around to help, with assist from Arnold. Also it's directed by the original writer/director of the franchise - James Cameron.
(I like the Terminator series -- I admit, I've seen all the films, and the television series. Yes, it's a franchise that I have religiously followed on some level. The worst one was the one with Christian Bale and Tom Hardy -- which almost destroyed the series completely.)
* Doctor Sleep looks interesting. I don't know if I can watch it though.
* Ford vs. Ferrari -- I freely admit that I only want to see this film for Christian Bale. (There's a couple of movie actors that I kind of follow around. If they are in a film, odds are I will find a way to see it. The current group is (they change periodically depending on how fed up I get): Hugh Jackman, Christain Bale, Ian McKellan, Robert Downey Jr., Benedict Cumberbatch, Hugh Laurie....and possibly Idris Elba.
* The Good Liar - see above list (it stars Ian McKellan with bonus points, Helen Mirren who is on my list of preferred female actresses. Many of which have names I can't spell or remember.)
* The Report -- well, yes, see list...Annette Bening and Adam Driver in the story about Feinstein going after the CIA.
*Knives Out -- a clever whodunnit with Chris Evans as a bad guy
* The Two Popes -- ah the list again, Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins in a papal buddy comedy aka historical
* The Aeronauts -- best trailer about hot air balloons.
* Just Mercy - based on the non-fiction book that I managed to skip
Weirdly, I'm ambivalent about Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (yes the combination of the prequels and sequels managed to kill my obsessive love of the series, kudos).
Also, Cats The Musical -- looks scary. I'm not sure what they were thinking. But uhm. Even musical lovers are looking at with fear and consternation. Non-musical lovers seem to be embracing it as validating.
I don't do Terrence Malik. He puts me to sleep. And I'm not sure I'm up to anything else about sexual harrassment at the moment.
4. So...I was trying to figure out the generations...who is in what one, mainly because it is confusing. Also there's quite a bit of disagreement as to when each generation begins and ends. Not to mention overlap.
I found articles to prove my point!
* Here is When Each Generation Begins and Ends According to the Facts.. (Hmm, the facts according to whom? Therein lies the question.)
I started by calling the Census Bureau. A representative called me back, without much information. "We do not define the different generations," she told me. "The only generation we do define is Baby Boomers and that year bracket is from 1946 to 1964."
Next, I spoke with Tom DiPrete, a sociology professor at Columbia University. And he agreed with the Census Bureau. "I think the boundaries end up getting drawn to some extent by the media," DiPrete said, "and the extent to which people accept them or not varies by the generation." DiPrete explained that there was a good sociological reason for identifying the Baby Boom as a discrete generation. It "had specific characteristics," and occurred within an observable timeframe. World War II ended. You had the post-war rise in standard of living and the rise of the nuclear family. Then societal changes disrupted those patterns, and the generation, for academic purposes, was over. His main point: "History isn't always so punctuated."
I understood why Generation X, a generation defined by turmoil and uncertainty, would be poorly defined. But what about Millennials? Doesn't their shared experience of the millennium transition and technology provide similar markers? "I actually haven't seen efforts to document [generations] rigorously, and I would be somewhat skeptical that they can be documented rigorously." DiPrete said. The things that have shaped Millennials — the rise of technology and social networks, for example — "affect people's lives differently."
"The media in particular wants definitions, identities," DiPrete said. "I don't know that the definitions are as strong or as widely shared across all the boundaries. … At the end I think it gets fuzzy."
Well, yeah. We do want definitions. And if it's the media that draws the boundaries, then allow us to do so definitively.
Your official demarcation of generational boundaries
We identified six different generations, and labeled their eras.
Greatest Generation. These are the people that fought and died in World War II for our freedom, which we appreciate. But it's a little over-the-top as far as names go, isn't it? Tom Brokaw made the name up and of course everyone loved it. What, you're going to argue with your grandfather that he isn't in the greatest generation? The generation ended when the war ended.
Baby Boomers. This is the agreed-upon generation that falls within DiPrete's punctuated timeframe. It began when the Greatest Generation got home and started having sex with everyone; it ended when having sex with everyone was made easier with The Pill.
Generation X. George Masnick, of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies puts this generation in the timeframe of 1965 to 1984, in part because it's a neat 20-year period. He also calls it the "baby bust," mocking "[p]undits on Madison Avenue and in the media" that call it Generation X. Ha ha, tough luck.
Generation Y. Masnick addresses this group, too, putting it "anywhere from the mid-1970s when the oldest were born to the mid-2000s when the youngest were." But mostly Generation Y is a made-up generation when it became obvious that young kids didn't really fit with the cool Generation X aesthetic but not enough of them had been born to make a new generation designation. NOTE: Generation Y is a fake, made-up thing. Do not worry about it.
Millennials. In October 2004, researchers Neil Howe and William Strauss called Millennials "the next great generation," which is funny. They define the group as "as those born in 1982 and approximately the 20 years thereafter." In 2012, they affixed the end point as 2004.
TBD. But that means that kids born in the last 10 years lack a designation. They are not Millennials. Earlier this month, Pew Research asked people what the group should be called and offered some terrible ideas. In other words, this is the new Generation Y. We'll figure out what they're called in the future.
[There's even a chart -- but you will need to go to the article for it.]
This by the way leaves out the Silent Generation, the group between the Greatest Generation and the Baby Boom, who are responsible for Generation X. The Baby Boom created the Millenials. Depending on who you talk to.
CNN got in on the act.
The Greatest Generation (or GI Generation)
Born in 1924 or earlier.
Tom Brokaw coined the term the Greatest Generation as a tribute to Americans who lived through the Great Depression and then fought in WWII. His 1998 bestselling book, "The Greatest Generation," popularized the term.
John F. Kennedy, born in 1917, was the first member of the Greatest Generation to become president. Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, and George H.W. Bush were also born between 1901 and 1924.
The Silent Generation
Born 1925-1945 (Sometimes listed as 1925-1942).
A 1951 essay in Time magazine dubbed the people in this age group the "Silent Generation" because they were more cautious than their parents. "By comparison with the 'Flaming Youth' of their fathers & mothers, today's younger generation is a still, small flame."
The Silent Generation helped shape 20th century pop culture, with pioneering rock musicians, iconic filmmakers, television legends, beat poets, gonzo journalists and groundbreaking political satirists.
No members of the Silent Generation have served as president.
Baby Boomers
Born 1946-1964 (Sometimes listed as 1943-1964)
Baby boomers were named for an uptick in the post-WWII birth rate.
At the end of 1946, the first year of the baby boom, there were approximately 2.4 million baby boomers. In 1964, the last year of the baby boom, there were nearly 72.5 million baby boomers. The population peaked in 1999, with 78.8 million baby boomers, including people who immigrated to the United States and were born between 1946 and 1964.
Bill Clinton was the first baby boomer to serve as president. George W. Bush, Barack Obama and President Donald Trump are also baby boomers.
According to the Census, the baby boom began in 1946 but Howe and Strauss, authors of the groundbreaking 1991 book, "Generations: The History of America's Future," argued that the baby boom began as a social and cultural phenomenon with people who were born in 1943.
Generation X
Born 1965-1980 (Sometimes listed as 1965-1979)
"Class X" was the name of a chapter in a 1983 book, "Class: A Guide Through the American Status System," by historian Paul Fussell. Novelist Douglas Coupland used the term as the title of his first book, "Generation X: Tales for An Accelerated Culture," published in 1991.
No members of Generation X have served as president.
Although about 75% of people in this group earn more than baby boomers did when they were the same age, only 36% have more wealth than their parents, due to debt, according to a 2014 Pew report.
In the 2016 presidential election, Generation X-ers and Millennials made up more than half of the electorate, according to Pew. For the first time in decades, younger voters outnumbered older voters, albeit by a slight margin. Millennials and Generation-X-ers (age 18-51), cast 69.6 million votes, compared with 67.9 million votes cast by Baby Boomers and older voters (age 52 and up).
Pew Research projects that in 2028, Generation X-ers will outnumber baby boomers.
Millennials
Born 1981-1996 (Sometimes listed as 1980-2000)
Howe and Strauss introduced the term millennials in 1991, the year their book, "Generations," was published.
In 2014, the number of millennials in the United States eclipsed the number of baby boomers, according to the Census Bureau. The Census counted approximately 83.1 million millennials, compared with 75.4 million baby boomers. Millennials represented one quarter of the nation's population. The Census also reported that millennials are more diverse than previous generations, as 44.2% are part of a minority race or ethnic group.
About 39% of millennials ages 25-37 have a bachelor's degree or higher, a larger percentage than previous generations, according to Pew. Millennials with a bachelor's degree or higher had a median annual earnings valued at $56,000 in 2018, about the same earnings as Generation X workers in 2001. Millennials without a college education had lower earnings that prior generations. About 46% of millennials ages 25-37 were married in 2018, a lower percentage than Generation X (57%), baby boomers (67%) and the Silent Generation (83%).
About 15% of millennials age 25-37 lived at home with their parents as of 2018, according to Pew. Fewer members of older generations lived at home with their parents between the ages of 25-37. The rate for Generation-X was 9%. The rate for Baby Boomers and the Silent Generation was 8%. Education factors into the percentage of millennials living at home. Among millennials without college degrees, 20% lived at home with their parents.
2016 was the first year any millennial was eligible to run for president (the minimum age is 35).
Generation Z or Gen Z (sometimes called post-millennials)
Born 1997-current
In January 2019, Pew announced that the post-millennial cohort will be called Gen Z.
According to Pew, Gen Z is the most racially and ethnically diverse cohort. One in four members of Gen Z are Hispanic while 52% are non-Hispanic white and 14% are black. A total of 6% are Asian and the remaining 4% are of another racial identity, primarily two or more races. The majority of individuals in Gen Z live in metropolitan areas and western states, with just 13% residing in rural areas.
High school completion and college enrollment rates for Gen Z are up, with significant increases for young adults who are Hispanic or African-American, according to Pew. In 2017, 64% of Gen Z women aged 18-20 were enrolled in college, an increase over millennials (57%) and Generation X (43%).
See? This is our difficulty right here -- only the Baby Boomers and Greatest Generation became President. Now if we make it impossible for another Baby Boomer to ever become President -- our world will be saved. (JOKING!) Everyone in the Greatest Generation is either dead or too feeble.
* Not to be outdone... A Career Coach Figures Out What Career You Are Most Fit for Based Solely on The Generation in Which You Were Born...and they've added a few, for those who fall into the overlap
Beginning to see why this is so confusing?
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Date: 2019-10-22 05:02 am (UTC)You want to know how silent that generation was? Bernie Sanders, Jane Fonda, Andy Warhol, Tom Brokaw... I'd call it the Generation That Talked and Didn't Listen, even to what they themselves were saying.
My generation got stuck with Harvey Weinstein, Donald Trump, Rush Limbaugh, Bill Clinton, et al who made big successes sucking up to that silent generation.
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Date: 2019-10-22 12:43 pm (UTC)According to CNN:
A 1951 essay in Time magazine dubbed the people in this age group the "Silent Generation" because they were more cautious than their parents. "By comparison with the 'Flaming Youth' of their fathers & mothers, today's younger generation is a still, small flame."
According to The Atlantic -- the Silent Generation doesn't exist.
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Date: 2019-10-22 10:25 am (UTC)Since I am a Baby Boomer, child of The Greatest Generation, I don't really care much about the other designations. (grin) Seriously, it seems like there's an obsession with naming generations, and all it seems to do is give people something to bitch about.
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Date: 2019-10-22 12:51 pm (UTC)According to the articles -- the only one coined by sociologists is the Baby Boom -- because of WWII and people came back and had kids. (Possibly because they killed so many people in WWI and WWII, that they felt, okay we have to repopulate right quick. Look how well that turned out? )
Anyhow, also according to The Atlantic -- only the media creates them outside of that. Brokaw created the Greatest Generation. A Time Essay set up the Silent. Two books set up Gen X. And it took about twenty years for the media to figure out what to do with all the kids born after Gen X that didn't fit -- so someone wrote a book, got paid, and coined Millenials.
Terminator looks good.