Generations review: Zoomer, boomer, millennial – what’s your tribe?


Group of young skateboarders sitting in discussion with mature skateboarder in neighborhood skate park

Dividing us all alongside generational strains is compelling, however difficult

Thomas Barwick/getty photographs

Generations
Jean M. Twenge (Simon & Schuster)

ZOOMERS are anxious and attuned to injustice. Millennials are self-obsessed and unhealthy with cash. Child boomers broke the world. As for Technology X, who even remembers them?

These labels are as acquainted as an previous pair of denims – no matter whether or not they match. Regardless that we’re frequently cautioned in opposition to such considering, reminded that it’s reductive, divisive and infrequently primarily based on patchy proof, generational traits appear too handy a shorthand to surrender. …