How Can You Tell Which #Generation You're a Part-of? #Generational #Generations #NextGen #NextGeneration #Gen #MyGeneration @DryBarComedy

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The word "|Generation|" is built on ancient words that mean "to give Birth, Beget^*" (Procreation, Tribal- & Familial Groups).

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So–from that root–you'd think a generation's name would come from the name of the generation that produced it (like babies are named by their parents) ... or from the name of 'the action that produced that generation' (just as 'Baby Boomers' were produced when 'the Greatest Generation' came home from war and had an urge to ... bring about a "boom" in babies).

My parents were Baby Boomers, and–if I didn't already know I'm either a 'Generation X'-man' (LOL X-MEN LOL) or an extra-Elder 'Millennial'–I might call myself an 'Abundance Spare-Timer' (born in an era when 'artist' became "a paying profession" (rather than 'just something people did in their spare time')) or (as has been suggested since so many in 'my generation'–including myself, but for a slightly-different reason than most–are forced to move back into their parents' houses) a 'Boomeranger.'

But I look at 'the modern-day repository for all socially-agreed-upon knowledge,' and–when it lists & describes all the agreed-upon generation names (in the Western World and in Other Areas)–it doesn't mention 'the people who begat^* them' as often as 'the range of years they were begotten^*-in!'

• Western-ly
• The Lost Generation - generally born between 1883 & 1900, and now-deceased,
• The G.I. Generation - born sometime from 1901 & 1924, who came of age during the Great Depression—some of them fighting in World War II
• The Silent Generation (whom I think Iliza Schlesinger was talking-about when she mentioned "the greatest generation," though Tom Brokaw wrote a book assigning that name to the generation before them) - born 1925 to 1942, & sometimes called The Lucky Few, it included soldiers from WWII, the Korean-, and the Vietnam-War.
• The Baby Boomers - born in years from the mid-Forties to the early Sixties
• Generation X - in years from the mid-Sixties to the early Eighties
• I think I (part of the sub-generation born from the late `70s to the early `80s) am of the generation known as 'the X-ennials' (one forgotten by Karen Morgan ... it has qualities of both X and ...)
• The Millennials - in years from the mid-Eighties to the early '2000s' (Naught-ies?)
• Generation Z (making The Millennials 'Generation Y' ... although that might make you want a reminder of 'why' ('Y' LOL) 'the post-boomer generation' was called "Generation X")
• That makes the logical 'name of the next generation' (born after 2008) Alpha (Α)–the first Greek letter, having used all the English letters (although we might go the 'AA, BB, CC'-route instead).
• Other-ly
• ... see the 'the modern-day repository ...'-link above

^*The word 'beget' of-course brings to mind the long lists of parental-lineages in The Holy Bible–starting from Adam, who begat many children, who begat another generation, who begat another generation, and so on until Abraham, who begat Isaac, who begat Jacob, who begat Joseph, who begat another generation, and another generation (a few generations later) begat Moses, who begat another generation, and another generation (a few generations later) begat Jesus Christ—popularly described as the Only Begotten son of 'God' (יהוה), even though The Holy Bible itself says that Yahweh "begat" Adam!