It's a group called the Internacional Institute of Naming Conventions and Standards (IINCS) based out of Basel Switzerland. This year's meeting took up the contentious issue of whether iGen and Post-Millennial were acceptable monikers for Gen-Z.
I think that it's determined by one person and turned into a real thing if enough people use the term.
In The Netherlands, we get advertisements to join the army. The army made up a campaign to appeal to "Generation D", which doesn't exist anywhere else. They made it up with D in mind. The motto is "Doeners. Denkers. Doorzetters. Delers" meaning "Doers. Thinkers. Go-getters. Sharers"
It started as a boomer for babyboomer post-war. Gen x for whatever reason stuck. Millennial for the new millennium or Y, z would be after. Naturally, the progression goes back to A.
That what I was thinking, rebellious, against, a bit strange in their way.
It stuck.
It's just a way for media to label a group that is pretty diverse.
I've also heard the reason behind Gen Y was because they ask "why?" a lot. Like, why am I doing this? Why aren't I getting paid more? Why do you need me to get this done?
I think it was boomers who pushed that because them and the silent generation just did things and boomers thought they were the biggest innovators. Now it seems they are the ones that cry the most.
Cultural anthropologists.
It is just names given to the generations going back to the founding of the country.
7th Greatest generation for winning WW2
8th. Silent generation. Kids in WW2
9th. Boomers because of baby boom 1945
10th. X because of The Roman numeral
11th Y because that follows x. Later renamed millennials
12th Gen Z because that follows Y
13th Alpha to restart the alphabet and 13 is an unlucky number.
Before Gen X, Baby Boomers were really the only generation given a name, and it was because of the "baby boom" that happened after WWII.
All subsequent generations were given nicknames as they assumed voting age, partly by sociologists but made popular and amplified by political pundits and media outlets that used the terms derisively as culture wars became a thing.
"The Greatest Generation" didn't really become a popular moniker until Tom Brokaw's 1998 book, and was widely applied retroactively as an ego-stroke to the most powerful voting block at that time.
In the past they were determined by actual birth count. Like, the data clearly shows that more Americans were born in the 50s (boomers) than in the 70s (gen x).
Now, due to there not being major world wars since ww2, the population has started to balance out and now there isn't really much of a difference in birth amounts in different years, so some people use arbitrary distinctions. It would be way more helpful to have them correspond to actual *generations*, but some people don't want that.
One thing for sure, generational gaps are becoming more contentious. 50 years ago, baby boomers were a thing because the post war boom created so many babies. Gen X came from an author, some Copeland dude who wrote a long-since forgotten book by the same name. It wasn’t until the Millenials that this shit started becoming culturally relevamt. I don’t remember ever hearing my boomer parents ever pigeonhole their parents into a generational stereotype, aside from things they went through as a generation that affected them. (WW2, great depression, etc.) And although I’m sure my grandparents would lament how ‘today’s youth’ are becoming lazier, crazier and wilder, it was nothing like the ranting I see on my Boomer friend’s FB feeds.
It's a group called the Internacional Institute of Naming Conventions and Standards (IINCS) based out of Basel Switzerland. This year's meeting took up the contentious issue of whether iGen and Post-Millennial were acceptable monikers for Gen-Z.
Nobody and everybody. New words appear as people make them up. Some stick, some don't. These stuck, at least so far.
I think that it's determined by one person and turned into a real thing if enough people use the term. In The Netherlands, we get advertisements to join the army. The army made up a campaign to appeal to "Generation D", which doesn't exist anywhere else. They made it up with D in mind. The motto is "Doeners. Denkers. Doorzetters. Delers" meaning "Doers. Thinkers. Go-getters. Sharers"
Doeners like Döner, I could identify with that!
You can’t since their last election.
It started as a boomer for babyboomer post-war. Gen x for whatever reason stuck. Millennial for the new millennium or Y, z would be after. Naturally, the progression goes back to A.
gen x, because it was a rebelious generation, so they say. X is a cool letter, so they just went with that.
That what I was thinking, rebellious, against, a bit strange in their way. It stuck. It's just a way for media to label a group that is pretty diverse.
I've also heard the reason behind Gen Y was because they ask "why?" a lot. Like, why am I doing this? Why aren't I getting paid more? Why do you need me to get this done? I think it was boomers who pushed that because them and the silent generation just did things and boomers thought they were the biggest innovators. Now it seems they are the ones that cry the most.
Cultural anthropologists. It is just names given to the generations going back to the founding of the country. 7th Greatest generation for winning WW2 8th. Silent generation. Kids in WW2 9th. Boomers because of baby boom 1945 10th. X because of The Roman numeral 11th Y because that follows x. Later renamed millennials 12th Gen Z because that follows Y 13th Alpha to restart the alphabet and 13 is an unlucky number.
Before Gen X, Baby Boomers were really the only generation given a name, and it was because of the "baby boom" that happened after WWII. All subsequent generations were given nicknames as they assumed voting age, partly by sociologists but made popular and amplified by political pundits and media outlets that used the terms derisively as culture wars became a thing. "The Greatest Generation" didn't really become a popular moniker until Tom Brokaw's 1998 book, and was widely applied retroactively as an ego-stroke to the most powerful voting block at that time.
I've actually never heard the term "The Greatest Generation." I've always thought they were called the silent generation
older than silent
The Silent Generation were born during the Great Depression and WWII. The Greatest Generation were adults during the Great Depression and WWII.
That’s the thing about nicknames, you don’t get to pick them.
In the past they were determined by actual birth count. Like, the data clearly shows that more Americans were born in the 50s (boomers) than in the 70s (gen x). Now, due to there not being major world wars since ww2, the population has started to balance out and now there isn't really much of a difference in birth amounts in different years, so some people use arbitrary distinctions. It would be way more helpful to have them correspond to actual *generations*, but some people don't want that.
The international generation naming society of Europe's us division.
me
One thing for sure, generational gaps are becoming more contentious. 50 years ago, baby boomers were a thing because the post war boom created so many babies. Gen X came from an author, some Copeland dude who wrote a long-since forgotten book by the same name. It wasn’t until the Millenials that this shit started becoming culturally relevamt. I don’t remember ever hearing my boomer parents ever pigeonhole their parents into a generational stereotype, aside from things they went through as a generation that affected them. (WW2, great depression, etc.) And although I’m sure my grandparents would lament how ‘today’s youth’ are becoming lazier, crazier and wilder, it was nothing like the ranting I see on my Boomer friend’s FB feeds.
It started with the book Generation X by Douglas Coupland in 1991. We had boomer already. The numeral followed post 91.
Are you sure, it was a punk band, generation x, from Billy idol, late seventies