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Sometimes, You Can't Be Defined As A 'Millennial' Or A Member Of Generation Z

Why is everyone so quick to label us?

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Sometimes, You Can't Be Defined As A 'Millennial' Or A Member Of Generation Z
Haiden VanDerlaske

We get it. You're either a Millennial or a member of Generation Z. But what about those people in the middle, not quite a Millennial and not quite a Gen Z? These babies are normally born between 1998 and 2002.

Why the close range between the generations? Today, people don't dress and act according to their age. Our society pushes people to act differently than they really are. We see 13-year-old girls wearing makeup and putting themselves out there, trying to act like a 20-year-old, and 8-year-olds with smartphones. Today, children are just different, Generation Z is just different.

Millennials grew up playing outside and today they eat avocado toast (OK, sorry, but this it's amazing why doesn’t everyone eat it??) They are the college students, the people in the workplace. The makers of social media and the go-getters, but they are still to “blame” for everything wrong in society.

But what about those kids stuck in the middle? They grew up with the internet but we still try to be who we aren’t? The kids that played outside but had a tablet when they were older, what are those kids? They definitely aren’t Gen Z, but not quite at the status of a Millennial.

We remember the good ol' days when Nickelodeon and Disney had the best shows on the air, when we still had our imaginations. We remember what "good music" is, and we “remember the 90’s.”

So what exactly are we? We’re just stuck in the middle. Don’t blame us for things, we’re trying to figure it out, too.

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