It may be a piece about No 10, but I thought it was interesting in terms of what it means about the wider place of the “Xennial” generation in Britain today – where do they fit, in terms of the millennial situation of having missed out on the housing ladder, but not in the camp of better-off older generations? Politically and socially fascinating!
All this is doing is highlighting the ridiculous obsession with generational divides, and why we need to leave such terms out of the media and politics.
There is no “gap” between them, and Xennial is a nonsense term designed purely to mask what everybody knows – that you’re going to obviously identify most with the people born within a period +/- of you.
I’m an early millenial – of course I identify more with a GenX’er who was at school around the same time as me, vs a late millenial who could barely walk when I had my first job and lumping us all into one group is daft.
To give a real world context, some millenial defintions go back as far as 1981, meaning these people would be 10 before the World Wide Web even became a public concept. Late millenials, as late as 1996/1997 would be 10 in 2006/2007 which is after the launch of Facebook, Google, YouTube and so on. Again, night and day in terms of experience and formative years
What the fuck is a Xennial.
Jesus the media doesn’t half make some shit up for views.
First ‘generation Jones’ and now Xennials, hopefully by the time we finish chopping each cohort into smaller and smaller chunks we can dispense with this lazy thinking.
This thing is utter garbage. Of the last 4 PMs, 2 were boomers and 2 were Xers, Starmer is a boomer.
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It may be a piece about No 10, but I thought it was interesting in terms of what it means about the wider place of the “Xennial” generation in Britain today – where do they fit, in terms of the millennial situation of having missed out on the housing ladder, but not in the camp of better-off older generations? Politically and socially fascinating!
All this is doing is highlighting the ridiculous obsession with generational divides, and why we need to leave such terms out of the media and politics.
There is no “gap” between them, and Xennial is a nonsense term designed purely to mask what everybody knows – that you’re going to obviously identify most with the people born within a period +/- of you.
I’m an early millenial – of course I identify more with a GenX’er who was at school around the same time as me, vs a late millenial who could barely walk when I had my first job and lumping us all into one group is daft.
To give a real world context, some millenial defintions go back as far as 1981, meaning these people would be 10 before the World Wide Web even became a public concept. Late millenials, as late as 1996/1997 would be 10 in 2006/2007 which is after the launch of Facebook, Google, YouTube and so on. Again, night and day in terms of experience and formative years
What the fuck is a Xennial.
Jesus the media doesn’t half make some shit up for views.
First ‘generation Jones’ and now Xennials, hopefully by the time we finish chopping each cohort into smaller and smaller chunks we can dispense with this lazy thinking.
This thing is utter garbage. Of the last 4 PMs, 2 were boomers and 2 were Xers, Starmer is a boomer.
No, I am not counting Truss.