Generations

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

1982-2004: Millennial Generation
2005-?: Homeland Generation

Ah yes, Homeland seems to me to imply "pre vs. post 9/11." It's a reasonable cutoff, but it means I'd put the start date at more like '96, i.e. kids old enough to remember 9/11.

Even without that event, though, I strongly disagree with grouping a kid born in 2004 with millenials who actually lived through the millenium. The millenium was a cultural awareness thing, an attitude-shaper that screamed "future!" and made all our consumer products predominantly chrome-colored for awhile. You're a millenial because you were shaped as a child by the cultural promise of a new millenium, not because you were born 4 years after it happened.