Essay On Characteristics Of Generation

Throughout time everything significantly changes, people, time, economy, education, and most of all generations. A generation is a time period when people that are born are labeled, such as, the Baby Boomers, Generation X, Generation Y, and Generation Z. Throughout every generation, each has their own individual characteristics which make up a generation. All of the differences that are distributed throughout each generation is what makes up communities today as a whole, the difference in ages, values, beliefs, etc. Baby Boomers, known as one of the largest generations of about 76,000,000 people born throughout that time period which was the beginning of 1946 through 1964. Considering that the Baby Boomers were such a popular generation they make up 20% of the population today. People that were born in this generation are mostly in their 60’s today meaning that they were born post-war. People began to start families post-war since they believed

Generation X was during the time period from 1965 through the early 1980’s. People that were born during this time are now in the ages between 35 and early 50’s. Most Generation X people are your local employers and consumers, they also are the most aware of today’s spending problems considering that they were most affected by the stock market crash. The most important spending for people that were born during this time period would be their children and housing. Generation X’ers take up about 30% of the U.S spending, making their children’s college tuition their most important priority. People that were born throughout this time period are known to be conservative, hard-working, and laid back. I believe that this generation has definitely got the bad end of things from their “status” and their divorce rate which is at 50% as of