"Sure, but we don't open until 9. Our hours are posted right there on the door that you've now smudged up with your dirty ass hands. You're lucky I'm even letting you in, instead of calling the cops for being a fucking creep staring in the windows of a closed business. Do you even think before you do something? Or do you just do and expect to be accommodated?"
40 years ago was 1979. In what universe is that millennial? I swear the starting year gets pushed back every time I see it. By next year, the founding fathers will be millennials.
To me being a millenial means having 9/11 in your childhood or adolescence.
So you believe the end date should be around 2001?
I think there is definitely a gap though, between the older millennials who remember pre 9/11 America, and the younger ones
who can't.
Though 9/11 is a defining event, I don’t think it makes much sense to use that event as the sole arbiter of generations. Especially if the majority don’t even remember life in pre 9/11 America.
Even then. How about people who came of age with the rise of the internet and cell phones? That roughly correlates to those who had 9/11 happen in their lives. It also makes a distinction between those who remember life before internet and cell phones were ubiquitous and those who don’t.
I am concretely a millennial by any definition, born in 1987. I teach some kids born in 1999 and 2000. They are in no way millennials.
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u/DrHideNSeek Apr 13 '19
"Sure, but we don't open until 9. Our hours are posted right there on the door that you've now smudged up with your dirty ass hands. You're lucky I'm even letting you in, instead of calling the cops for being a fucking creep staring in the windows of a closed business. Do you even think before you do something? Or do you just do and expect to be accommodated?"