Mika Brzezinski daughter (on right)
Posted on 07/05/2017 5:33:16 PM PDT by Lorianne
Max Bloomstine has a positive view of the nation’s growing diversity, believes the American dream is attainable (but doesn’t believe he’s entitled to it) and is more into the “we” instead of the “me.”
He is politically independent but leans conservative, attends church on a regular basis, and views his parents — not sports figures or celebrities — as role models.
Right now, though, two things weigh heavily on his mind: where to attend college next year (it’s either going to be the University of Pittsburgh or Rochester) and working on a summer job.
“I am a good entrepreneur when it comes to online gaming administration,” he said.
Say hello to Generation Z, the most recent to come of age. It is the youth of America, with its oldest members in their early 20s.
Sometimes referred to as the iGeneration, as they literally grew up with technology and social media in their hands, they are poised to dramatically change the cultural, economic and political landscape for some time to come.
Born between 1996 and 2010, they are very similar to their Gen X parents, that small, pragmatic generation that fell between the larger baby boomer and millennial generations.
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I remember back in the 1950s when I got my first transistor radio. Amazing tech for the time, I could walk to school and listen to my favorite DJs and songs on the radio!
Kind of funny, but my kids and nieces and nephews, Millennials in their late 20s and early 30s, are amazed that I have an iPad, Smart phone, and high tech desk top computer for editing and downloading videos on the internet. They wonder how an old guy like me can figure it out. Ha! I was on the internet when they were toddlers and was editing 8mm and 16mm film back in the early 1960s and made the transition to video before they were born.
They might not be voting at all if we keep putting “sanctions” on NK and Iran and do nothing else.
It’s like a surreal nightmare.
Kids love to rebel against the established order. After the perverted bacchanal and rampant revolutionary Marxism infestation in America, there is exactly one way left to be a rebel.
Be a good decent clean-cut person and just be normal.
Mika Brzezinski daughter (on right)
If they do vote Republican, I’d think it would be to lash out against affirmative action and the limited opportunities it leaves for white guys - but that is just the white guys.
IF we don’t do something about indoctrination in public schools (and college), I’m not so sure.
I share that concern. Teachers spend more teaching time with students than their parents ever could, and they are elevated to be like some oracle who can never be disputed —especially professors.
The stool has three legs:
1. Media control.
2. Education control.
3. Intimidation of businesses and investors.
My parents are definitely baby boomers, I never identified with the media-defined generations that succeeded them, the "Gen Xers", and then the "Millenials" (formerly known as Gen Y until about 2009 or so) Most of the stuff that "Gen X" grew up with I was too young to experience. A lot of them were teens during the Reagan years and were first old enough to vote in the '92 election where Clinton won the "youth vote". They were the "MTV generation" that watched it back in the 80s when MTV still showed music videos 24/7. The "Millenial" (::shudder:: starbuckers sippin' teenybopper hipsters!) generation crew up in the "digital age" and a lot of them were first old enough to vote in the 2008 election. Since its now 2017, many of them are in their 20s by now. They like to post selfies on instagram and dye their hair blue.
Apparently people born between '77-'83 are considered a micro-generation of our own that experienced an analogue childhood and a digital adulthood. We can easily send a text message but we didn't get our first cell phone until we were in our early 20s. We're familiar with snapchat but have zero interest in actually using it. The media has coined the hybrid term " Xennials" (stupid name, I bet a millianl douchebag with hipster glasses came up with that and thought he was being clever) Alternate names include The Oregon Trail Generation (we all had Oregon Trail on our school computers), Generation Catalano/My So-Called Generation (after My So Called Life, the cult classic 1-season teen drama from 1995), and "Carter babies" (conceived during the Carter years from 1977-1981, which apparently was a time of low birth rates)
Some links:
http://didyouknowfacts.com/theres-now-a-name-for-the-micro-generation-born-between-1977-1983/
https://www.good.is/articles/quiz-xennial-gen-x-millennial-do-you-know-if-you-qualify
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/jun/27/are-you-a-xennial-take-the-quiz
In short, I finally found what "generation" era I fit into! I feel complete now. :-)
I’m late ‘83, really feel I’m too young for Gen X and too old for Millennial. I think there are a lot of people like us that feel stuck between them, well obviously since they came up with this “Xennials” portmanteau.
“We played Carmen Sandiego and Oregon Trail on our Apple IIE’s”
YES, in computer class. And yeah I was 20’s before I got a cell phone. I have heard of snapchat but never looked up what it actually is.
I never watched “My So-Called life”, and was a Reagan Baby.
“Xennials” is kinda stupid. I like the ring of “Generation Y” and just consider myself that.
I can relate to some of that, although I’m a literal “Watergate Baby.” However, my half-sister is a Baby Boomer and my parents are from the Silent Generation (so they were already working or in the military before the hippies started doing their thing). I did cast my first vote in 1992 (for Bush, who just beat out my 2nd choice of Bo Gritz). I didn’t watch MTV in the ‘80s, since my musical tastes were more of my parents’ era (which was partly responsible for getting me isolated by others in school when I could care less for the music at the time — although I appreciated some of it later).
I did watch that “My So-Called Life” when it aired, if only because I thought Claire Danes was cute, although I was already in my early 20s.
I did play “The Oregon Trail” on some of the earliest Apple computers, which were then “State of the Art” (circa 1982). The first computer we got (in 1981) was a Texas Instruments, which came with a keyboard and cassette insert that plugged into your tv. If you wanted to record (”save”) what you were typing or a game in progress, you used an audio cassette tape. Folks forget now that at the time, Bill Cosby was the spokesman for T.I. Computers, so you couldn’t see any ad without his face on it (this was before his ‘80s show when he was on the comedy circuit, guest appearances on shows and movies). Most remember him for the pudding pops, but this was his other “big thing.”
The next “real” computer we got was a Commodore Amiga, hot off its release in early 1986. We spent a jaw-dropping $2,000+ for it (which is like, what, $5-$6,000 today, 30 times what you could get a cheap computer for today). Keep in mind this computer had NO MEMORY. You had to “Kickstart” the computer with a hard diskette and after it ran through, insert the program disk (and this was also the first to use a mouse and the familiar icons on the screen to click on). Everything you did had to be independently saved on a diskette. You also ran the risk with anything running of getting the dreaded “Guru Error” (which was the father of the Blue Screen of Death). Many a game I was playing (Seven Cities of Gold) or document I was typing would hit that Error out of the blue and wipe everything unsaved out. I’m amazed I never put my fist through the computer screen. =8-0>
It would be 12 more years before getting a Dell and the internet, though. :-\
“...“Watergate Baby.” ...”
Haven’t heard that term, but it’s descriptive!!! :^)
I’m late Baby Boom.
“..The next “real” computer we got ...”
My first “computer” was a DEC VT-180, with DUAL (!!!!) floppy disk drives... high tech!!!! Hahah! It was being junked at a place where I worked, so I took it home.
Is it true floppy disks used to actually be floppy?
Why yes, yes they were, back in the olden days. They were in a paper sleeve.
Sounds like you’re making an “Old Guy” joke there, you whippersnapper... Hahah!!!
“Bendy” is actually better description than “floppy”. They were 5.25 inch media disks. There were larger ones, too, prior to the 5.25s - I think they were 8inch diameter or so.
PCs have come a LONG way. SmartPhones now have more memory and processing power than 1990s vintage PCs...
But they did the job back in the day, and progressed nicely.
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