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More the messaging, than the person in the picture...because yeah, they look too young to be Gen X.
I'm Gen X too, and I'm pretty sure we were the last generation where it was considered "normal" to get beaten in public for behavioral reasons.
Makes sense. Yep, I have multiple friends my age who were on the receiving end of some “tough love”.
Some of my earliest "formative memories" were of getting walloped in the middle of a grocery store aisle, for whining about cereal. My mother said, "pick which one you want". I thought that meant I could pick something I actually wanted. Apparently not. My choices were shredded wheat or cheerios.
Everything else in that aisle was a decoy, with a spanking attached to it.
I'm confused with ages here, have we standardized this?
I'm annoyed by this on principle and across the board, but I do want to point out that "Greatest Generation" all the way to "Baby Boomers" makes zero sense in most of the planet. You can sooooort of get away with Millenials to Alpha because the Internet is a bad idea, and Gen X at least applies to probably most of Europe as well as the US and Canada, although it's still weird across the board.
But everything before that? Super specifically US-only.
Those generations are common like that at least in Germany too. It's not as specific as you think. And even if it was then it's made up regardless so who cares. It's a useful concept.
You are telling me Germans consider people born in the first 20 years of the 20th century to be "the greatest generation"?
Holy crap, you may hang out with the wrong Germans. Did they seem particularly excited about the recent NRW elections?
Maybe not that. But the silent generation onwards.
Right. That's my point, though. Depending on where you are in the world and how joined at the hip with the US you are culturally this particular set will start making sense at a different point. In some cases not at all.
Where I am millenials are the first that definitely sync up. Up until GenX we are in a completely different set. I bet in other parts of the world even with how fully online we all are even then it doesn't click.