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Defining Generations by Presidencies...

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#1 ·
From at least an American standpoint would this make sense?

Going from the fact that most, if not ALL, Millennials remember Bush as president.

If that pattern follows, most Homelanders would first remember Obama and most of Alpha would first remember Trump.

When I mean "remember" is that they are able to compare the "vibe" (for lack of a better word) of the nation during their presidency and after it. For example, Millennials would most likely be able to tell you how life was under Bush as president and compare it with life under Obama's. Similarly, the older half of Gen Z would tell you of life under Obama and compare it with Trump.

Of course it would not be the ONLY defining factor (it's much more complicated)- it would be a GENERAL way of defining.

(P.S. I am basing this on what I am most familiar with. I am aware different nations have their own ways of defining generations)
 
#4 · (Edited)
@Millenium_01 As Generation Y has different start and end Year, one must consider all the presidencies that have been served such as:

1977 - 1981 President Jim Carter
1981 - 1989 President Ronald Reagan
1981 - 1993 President George H W. Bush
1993 - 2001 President Bill Clinton
2001 - 2004* President George W. Bush

**I don't agree with all the listed Presidents being part of Generation Y (but I have named the presidents and terms based on some researchers starting Generation Y in 1977 (earliest) and 2004 (latest)).**

Each person will recognise Generation Y in accordance to their view or agree with one or some researchers.

- MetLife, Minority of Demographers, and Researchers definition of Generation Y is 1977-1994
Presidents served: 1977 - 1981 President Jim Carter; 1981 - 1989 President Ronald Reagan; and 1989 - 1993 President George H W. Bush; and 1993 - 1994* President Bill Clinton

- Nielsen Media Research definition of Generation Y is 1977 -1995/1996
Presidents served: 1977 - 1981 President Jim Carter; 1981 - 1989 President Ronald Reagan; 1989 - 1993 President George H W. Bush; and 1993 - 1996* President Bill Clinton

- Australia's McCrindle Research definition of Generation Y is 1980–1994
Presidents served: 1977 - 1981 President Jim Carter; 1981 - 1989 President Ronald Reagan; and 1989 - 1993 President George H W. Bush; and 1993 - 1994* President Bill Clinton

- PricewaterhouseCoopers definition of Generation Y is 1980 - 1995
Presidents served: 1977 - 1981 President Jim Carter; 1981 - 1989 President Ronald Reagan; and 1989 - 1993 President George H W. Bush; and 1993 - 1995* President Bill Clinton

- Gallup Inc and MSW Research definition of Generation Y is 1980 – 1996
Presidents served: 1977 - 1981 President Jim Carter; 1981 - 1989 President Ronald Reagan; and 1989 - 1993 President George H W. Bush; and 1993 - 1994* President Bill Clinton

- Ernst and Young definition of Generation Y is 1981 – 1996
Presidents served: 1981 - 1989 President Ronald Reagan; and 1989 - 1993 President George H W. Bush; and 1993 - 1996* President Bill Clinton

- Pew Research Center definition of Generation Y is 1981 - 1996, and then later changed the end dates between 1992 - 1999)
Presidents served: 1981 - 1989 President Ronald Reagan; and 1989 - 1993 President George H W. Bush; and 1993 - 1996* President Bill Clinton

- William Straus and Neil Howe definition of Generation Y is 1982 - 2004
Presidents served: 1981 - 1989 President Ronald Reagan; 1989 - 1993 President George H W. Bush; 1993 - 2001 President Bill Clinton; 2001 - 2004* President George W. Bush

-WPP definition of Generation Y is 1981-1998
Presidents served: 1981 - 1989 President Ronald Reagan; 1989 - 1993 President George H W. Bush; 1993 - 1998* President Bill Clinton

- United State Census Bureau definition of Generation Y is 1982 - 2000
Presidents served: 1981 - 1989 President Ronald Reagan; 1989 - 1993 President George H W. Bush; 1993 - 2000* President Bill Clinton

- Elwood Carlson definition of Generation Y is 1983 - 2001
Presidents served: 1981 - 1989 President Ronald Reagan; 1989 - 1993 President George H W. Bush; 1993 - 2001 President Bill Clinton; 2001 - 2004* President George W. Bush

- US Pirg definition of Generation Y is 1983 - 2000
Presidents served: 1981 - 1989 President Ronald Reagan; 1989 - 1993 President George H W. Bush; 1993 - 2000* President Bill Clinton

Due to birth-year overlap between definitions of Generation X and millennials, and the tentative nature of generations, some individuals born in the late 1970s and early 1980s see themselves as being "between" the two generations.[46][47][48][49] Names given to those born in the Generation X and Millennial cusp years include Xennials,Generation Catalano, and the Oregon Trail Generation.

Reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennials
 
#5 ·
All Millennials remember Bush but no one in Gen Z remembers much before Obama. This is both good and bad, it gives them really good assumptions about social justice, but it gives them a bad impression of "how things are" in general and leads them angrily to a kind of malaise due to experiencing the Recession as children rather than as young adults. A recession in your 20s makes you angry and resentful (que Millennials) but a recession at 8 years old makes you a deprived and cynical person. They're supposed to be a repeat on the Silent Generation who experienced the Great Depression.

I don't agree with that though, because a lot of my grandfather's childhood concerns were immediate. I was fortunate to be close to him, and his measure of a good life depended on basics like food, shelter, clothing and education. It made him good at saving money, at growing his own food and making household items along with his siblings (a habit adopted by Millennials interestingly), and very resentful of a lot of people, I don't blame him, but very hard working. My grandpa was the man, like his humility is probably up there with Jesus and people from Ethiopia. That is what Gen Z is supposed to be like, but I don't see it. I see them being a lot like Gen X, very cynical, bitter and self-absorbed, but yet like the Silents a lot more engaged in politics locally and engaged in making their own lives happen, whatever that means, whether it is tiny house or being an anarchist or saying welp climate change is going to happen so we The Genderless Vegans of No Race might as well adjust.

They really hate gender and embrace veganism, so I like them a lot. I do not like at all their cynicism about climate change, because frankly it doesn't help.
 
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#6 ·
This is really a reason to look up to Veganism as a social advancement. If the upcoming generation denies race and gender, but embraces veganism, this is their community touch stone, and a rather healthy one, like Christianity once was - and let us remember (even if the Republicans won't) Christians were originally without race and were supposed to be included by each gender, and were usually vegetarian. The world when distilled to its purity is a world without race and gender where people bond over not harming animals (or anyone else). Rejoice.
 
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#8 ·
I remember Reagan as president, then Bush Sr., Clinton, Bush Jr., Obama era, now Trump.

Even though I wasn’t born during the Iran contra scandal, I can now see a pattern of mostly republican presidents and those claiming to be liberal but really running their politics on a republican platform as essentially a one-party system supporting Big Oil and dirty money dark politics.

There’s a notable difference with each decade furthering away from FDR policies and widening gaps of the richest rich and the poorest poor with essentially the middle class disappearing here in the U.S. of A.
 
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