Naming generations like that wasn’t really a thing in Germany until American pop-culture brought it over, so these days we also use Millenial, Gen-Z and so on. That said, an important generational divide was those born before WW2 and the generation immediately after. When the latter people became adults, they started to question what their parents were doing during the nazi era and how it could be that former members of the nazi party still held public positions in Germany. They started a protest movement that would finally start Germany properly working through and taking responsibility for the crimes of the nazi era.

Here in lithuania we basically get those who lived through the soviet occupation, those who lived through the january 13th, those who lived through the mafias/gangs of the 90s, and gen Z who were born after everything settled down lol

Everyone ignores GenX and we worked really hard to make that happen. 😉

My family is from mainland China. (We have since emigrated)

Idk if there are even like actual names for generations.

But anyways:

My parents, and especially my maternal grandmother, keeps telling about “how much they had to suffer” during their time and told me to “be grateful” and stop being picky with food, because they didn’t even have much options of food in their time. Of course me being a kid at the time is still very picky with food, which I guess must’ve annoyed my parents a lot.

So like… just the attitude with food, frugality. It’s very different.

My mom became a hoarder.

There’s a full basement of stuff…

Pretty sure its a fire hazard since the backdoor is blocked.

My mom calls me and my brother “lazy” because she said when she was a kid, she had to help her mother (aka: my maternal grandmother) with work. Like with chores and sometimes the farm stuff.

Oop, sorry mom, I’m “lazy” 🥺👉👈 (probably because of dad’s half of the “laziness gene” xD, or at least we joked about that a lot)

I feel like every adult is like: “Do you have kids?” “How old are they?” “College?” “Married yet?” etc…

Like that’s every phone call ever (I overheard a lot of phone calls in the livingroom xD).

And when I was a kid, since I can’t just be an unaccopanied minor at home, I’d be with my mom like everywhere. Literally every conversation involved talking about kids and education and marriage lol.

Sometimes I’d hear my parents talking about me over the phone… like… its so weird to overhear that.

Like my mom would say some positive things about me, and like hearing it from the PoV when I’m not part of the conversation feels so surreal. Like I get described both positibely and negatively.

“My kids are so big now, but the bigger they get the more ‘rebellious’ they get” (okay, mom, do you want me to be a kid forever? lmfao)

And sometimes I get teased like, sometimes like irl in person in front of her friends and mom be like: “Oh these little shits, these are my children, they never listen to me” (like… as in playful teasing)

Like there’s just an obsession with family and passing on the bloodline.

Basically I’d describe it like this:

Qing Era: Before 1911-1912 Xinhai Revolution – pretty sure everyone from this era is dead

Warlord Era / Civil War Era: 1912-1937(?) – not sure if I know anyone actually from this era

Resistance against Japanese Imperialism Generation: 1937-1945 – I think my paternal grandparents were from this era, I was told my paternal grandpa had to flee from the Japanese as a kid. I think people from this era are just very Anti-Japan, which is understandable given the trauma.

Mao Generation: 1945/1949 - 1976 – I know my maternal grandmother was born during the 1945-1949 Civil War. Famines were common. Not much choice of food. I’m glad I wasn’t born during that era lol.

My parents were born during 1960s to 1970s.

Around the time of “Cutural Revolution” and struggle sessions…

My mom is really afraid of criticizing the government and have repeatedly told me to shut up about politics… 🫤

Cuz there’s randomly be people taken and accused of being “counter-revolutionary”

Deng Generation: 1976 - 1990s/2000(? idk where to cut it off) – Reforms, Opening up the country, more internationalization. Stuff starts to get better.

Modern Generation: 1990s/2000 - Now(?) – ME! Here I am! 😃

Idk how to describe it but: we had TVs. Cell phones. Cassettes. A second-hand computer with Windows XP/Vista??? (no internet btw, not for us anyways), Yugioh or some card game thing? And a bunch of domestic-only board games.

We had: Mcdonalds. Pizza Hut. KFC.

Most people didn’t have siblings, but my mom decided to violate the one child policy lol

So yay congrats to my older brother who now have an annoying lil bro to fight with (and abuse).

So… TLDR is… I guess this:

Its kinda reversed from Americans glorifying the past. The past was terrible from my parent’s PoV. There was no such thing as “good ol’ days”.

It is not mostly American. The world is bigger, you know. Roughly the same divide is prevalent along Western Europe and possibly other regions as well were involved in World War 2. Many people had died, so many new ones had to be made.

I think the main differences that come to mind are: the degree of religiosity, interest in marrying early and having kids (or at all) and whether weed or booze is acceptable or shunned/side-eyed.

I would say that here in Venezuela, the existing generations can be divided into:

• 4th Republic/Pre-Chávez: all those who were born before 1998 and lived before Hugo Chávez’s term in office.

  • They are characterized by being more conservative, as they lived in a time before the rise of the left and Chavismo and know a different Venezuela.

• 5th Republic / Bolivarian Revolution: All those who were born and lived during Chávez’s term from 1998 until his death. That is my generation.

  • Many of us are either very progressive, because our parents who voted for Chávez believed in his ideas, or very conservative for the opposite reason. We are much more politically aware than previous and subsequent generations.

• Post-Revolution / Madurismo: Everyone who was born and grew up during the crisis that followed Chávez’s death and Maduro’s term in office. My nephew’s generation.

  • There are no Chávez supporters here, as they did not get to experience a time when things were not so bad; austerity, scarcity, and misery are all they know. Many of them are now abroad.

• Pandemic: all children born during the pandemic. This includes my other niece.

  • They are still too young to say what their character is like. Most are children of Venezuelans who went abroad, so their idea of what the country is like, if they are still abroad, is influenced by their parents and the media.

(needles to say, I’m not a sociologist or anything. All this comes from pure observation)

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