• folkrav@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    I honestly don’t think that’s the case. Generational divides aren’t that strongly defined that they have a specific cutoff date and time, people don’t really agree on exact moments. Some people who were born after said cutoff are better described by the previous generation, and vice-versa. For example, if you go strictly by date of birth, by most definitions of the term, my father is a (very late) boomer, but his life experience is much more similar to what defined Gen X’ers.

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      7 months ago

      For cusp people, it has more to do with what generation YOUR parents identify with the strictly your own birth date.

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        There’s certainly some interesting stuff to consider there. For instance, my wife and I are less than one year apart, but I have a brother seven years older than me, and she is the first born in her family. We’re both in between, kind of, but I have a lot more Gen X memories and experiences, while she has more Millennial ones.

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        Funny, my father was born to what was considered pretty old parents, for the time. But grandma in particular really wasn’t very representative of the Silent Generation lol

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    7 months ago

    This also depends on which definition is used, so there may be a first/oldest for each definition

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      7 months ago

      It’s as useful as asking which is the first stone that’s part of Mount Everest. Some things are vague and do not have definite boundaries.

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    It’s likely someone born in Kiribati on Jan 1st in the year 2000. Given the small population of the island, it probably isn’t even to hard to find out.

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      Only if someone was born in Kiribati in the first hour of Jan 1. According to Google in 2000 its population was only 89000 and its birth rate was 31 per 1000 people per year. That gives an average of one person being born every 3.18 hours. I’m not sure what the population of the countries in GMT+13 is, but I think they’re also a likely candidate.