but many of the cultural changes identified here have appeared around the world. For

Polars are also the generation with the highest number of multiracial people.

Gen X’ers also used the television set for a new purpose: playing video games.

Gen Z continued a trend started by Millennials around clothing: They just don’t care much if their clothes are fashionable. Strong on individual expression, they’d rather make their own style

Thus during the young adulthood of Silents, women often worked, but they rarely worked in well-paying or prestigious jobs.

Generation Y—but that generation (born 1980–1994) is now regularly referred to as Millennials.

Millennial children left to their own devices began to be stigmatized as “unsupervised,” with stories of kidnapped children

Older Gen Z’ers spent their childhoods in a severe recession, their adolescence in a time of robust economic growth but growing political division, and their young adulthood during the COVID-19 pandemic, while younger Gen Z’ers barely remember a pre-Trump world and grappled with online school in 2020 and 2021.

individual comfort and expression became more important. Comfortable work clothes are here to stay.