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re: Which generational category do you fall in?
Posted on 5/2/18 at 7:50 am to LSUBoo
Posted on 5/2/18 at 7:50 am to LSUBoo
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Homelanders huh? I hadn't heard that term before.
Nor had I, so I looked it up.
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Why Homeland Generation?
This name was actually chosen by readers of our books. We conducted an online contest in 2006 to name the generation coming after the Millennials. Several different names were suggested and voted on. Homeland Generation became the ultimate winner, apparently because the decade of the 2000s was marked by 9/11, the War on Terror, the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, and a sense that the “homeland” was no longer safe. Readers also sensed a worldwide cultural movement towards nationalism, localism, and an increased identification with one’s roots. The word also fits since this generation of children is literally kept more at “home” than any earlier generation of kids, thanks to the protective, hands-on child-raising style of Gen-X parents.
From Forbes.
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Posted on 5/2/18 at 9:06 am to Sasquatch Smash
I predict the homelander generation will fix a lot of what has been screwed up by some previous generations.
This post was edited on 5/2/18 at 9:07 am
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