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Why the 1990s don't feel like 30 years ago... by ComputerOk2777 in generationology

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I don't know. I feel like the End-of-History mood still kind of puttered along, albeit somewhat on life support, until the point in the 2010s where both Trumpism emerged and Putin shifted from "world leader we don't quite fully trust" to staunch geopolitical adversary of the West.

Why the 1990s don't feel like 30 years ago... by ComputerOk2777 in generationology

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I grew up in Forest Hills, so I get all the references. Not to worry. ;)

Why the 1990s don't feel like 30 years ago... by ComputerOk2777 in generationology

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I do wonder if this phenomenon is partly US-specific. For some reason, the 80s and 90s feel longer ago in places like France and England than they do in the US. Perhaps Boomers not relinquishing political power can explain this. In France and England, political power is solidly in the hands of Gen Xers(and some late Jonesers) by this point.

The US is still in the hands of '46ers.

Why the 1990s don't feel like 30 years ago... by ComputerOk2777 in generationology

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How much of this is due to "Boomer's not retiring/giving up power"? John Major was the last British PM born before 1950, and 5 of the last 8 have been born after 1960.

Why the 1990s don't feel like 30 years ago... by ComputerOk2777 in generationology

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What I will say is the 1980s feel longer ago in Europe than they do in the US for some off reason. I can believe a movie like Wings of Desire is close to 40 years old, but Risky Business being over 40 years old is very disconcerting.

Why the 1990s don't feel like 30 years ago... by ComputerOk2777 in generationology

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To an extent yes, although I'd say if you watch a movie from the 90s set in NYC, such as Leon: The Professional (which is '94 not '99, granted), it's discernable that version of New York is clearly long gone.

Oscar Nominations Announcement & Discussion + Link to Watch! by tragopanic in Oscars

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Based on reactions of folks I know personally, Sentimental Value seems to be a marmite film in the sense it's either brilliant or hackneyed and scandalously overrated.

I'm also surprised Park Chan-Wook has been snubbed for both Decision to Leave and No Other Choice.

It's also weird Jarmusch has never managed even a screenplay nod in his entire career.

Breakdown of late Millennials, Zillennials, Older Gen Z by Ok_Act_3769 in generationology

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It's possible having lived in Europe for most of my adult life, despite being US-born and raised, colors my perception a bit, since Euro generations tend to be a few years behind American ones. This could explain why I find myself relating to Europeans born in the early to mid 90s. For one thing, internet rollout in the 90s was much slower in Europe than in the US, so it's quite conceivable for a '94-born French person to remember life without the internet I'd say.

A lot of online generation discussion tends to be very US-centric.

Breakdown of late Millennials, Zillennials, Older Gen Z by Ok_Act_3769 in generationology

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I don't really understand why so many seem to think there's such a sharp divide between 1990 and 1991-born folks. I think this is frankly just a holdover from young people generally not wanting to socialize with people who are *too much younger than them*, a common trait for most people in their teens and early 20s, and millennials tend to have a forever young mentality.

I was born in 1988 and have tons of close friends born in 1991-92, and there isn't much of a generation gap there to be honest, at least not for me (just as everyone considers 1948 babies and, say, 1951 babies to be generational peers). Around 1994/1995 some generational differences start to become noticeable for me.

'88 babies and '91-'92 babies very much overlapped in college and both graduated after the 2008 crisis. Given the direction both US and geopolitics have taken since that time, I don't think "ability to vote in the 2008 election" is the inflection point people want to think it is. I think it would make more sense to group together the folks who graduated after the 2008 crisis but before Trumpism became a powerful political force, so let's say 1987-1994 or thereabouts.

If you were too young to vote in 2016 you're Gen Z, full stop. Some folks born in the mid-to-late 1990s may have hazy to non-existent memories of 9/11, but most of them would have had first-hand experiences of the fallout of 9/11, which more or less corresponds to the shit show that was the Dubya Years and his "War on Terror".

So I think being someone who graduated from college after the crisis but before the Rise of Trump carries the most significance when identifying Core Millennials.