• Altima NEO@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Are these generational terms even used to describe people outside of America?

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      1 year ago

      Right? It’s less messy to compare and complain by generation than by the material conditions. Which aren’t particularly the fault of a generation whom also had their own owning class, their own labor and union involvement, as well as different relations to international finance capital.

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        1 year ago

        Yeah, I mean baby boomers are only called that because it was American soldiers returning from war and having a ton of babies. I have no idea what was going on in other countries, or of they experienced a boom too.

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      1 year ago

      Definitely in other Western countries, at least. Only makes sense for those countries that had a post-WW2 baby boom though.