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Generation Y or '''Echo boomers''' are terms that designate a Cohort of people born immediately after " Generation X ." It is one of several terms (including '''The Millennials''' and the '''The Internet Generation''') used to describe the same group. There is much dispute as to the exact range of birth years that constitutes "Generation Y" and whether this term is specific to North America , the Anglophone world, or people worldwide. The only consensus, by way of its relation to the term "Generation X," is that those born in Generation Y must follow Generation X. Many publications in academic, demographic, business, and governmental sources have used their own specific parameters for who constitutes Generation Y. There is no specific accepted definition thus far. The use of the term "Generation Y" is also controversial and synonyms are often used in discourse or in published works that refer to this group. As the term "Generation X" was coined primarily to describe the post Baby Boomer generation in the United States and Canada, some people use "Generation Y" only to refer to Americans, Canadians, and other Anglophone people who were born after Generation X. Dates that define a person belonging to Generation X have also been disputed. Others have suggested that such regional restrictions of use are unnecessary in the ever globalizing world. Generations are not defined by formal process, but rather by demographers, the media, Popular Culture , market researchers, and by members of the generation themselves. For instance, while the periodical ''American Demographics'' typically uses 1976 to demarcate the start of Generation Y, the demographers Howe and Strauss have consistently used "the High School class of 2000", or those born in 1982 as their demarcation. While many possible years are used as the endpoint of Generation Y, the term is almost never applied to current infants, who are part of a possibly as yet unnamed generation. Because of the flexible nature of such demographic terms, two people of the same birth year can identify as either Generation X, Y, or something that follows Y, such as the New Silent Generation and neither is wrong. Because the term Generation Y suggests "following Generation X", and because the term Generation X was originally coined as a Pejorative term, use of the term Generation Y is controversial. Numerous terms (see below) have been coined as alternatives to Generation Y, or to describe subjects of the cohort. "Millennials" is a very commonly used alternative by the popular press in the United States. If the years 1978-2000 are used, as is common in market research, then the size of Generation Y in the United States is approximately 76 million."Scenes from the Culture Clash" ''Fast Company'' January/February 2006, pp 73-77. BACKGROUND The term Generation Y first appeared in an August 1993 between X and Y, 1975 - 1985. Use of the term Generation Y (often shortened to Gen Y or Ygen) to describe any Cohort of individuals is controversial for a variety of reasons. "Generation Y" alludes to a succession from "Generation X", a term which was originally coined as a Pejorative label. While Generation Y alludes to that cohort's successional relationship to Generation X, the term Echo Boomers is used to allude to the generation's close tie to the primary childbearing years of Baby Boomers ; the term '''Second Baby Boom''' is also used in this way and to denote the population expansion that Generation Y represents. The terms '''Millennials''' and ''' Internet Generation ''' are attempts to give the Gen Y cohort more independent names that are tied with key events and cultural trends that are strongly associated with the generation. No single term is the "correct" term to describe members of this generation. Generation Y are primarily children of the Baby Boomer s and Generation Jones , though some are children of what Howe and Strauss refer to as the Silent Generation (sometimes referred to as Generation Z ) or are children of older Gen X adults. Because of this, there is a perceived tendency to share social views with the Boomers and culture with Gen X, who serve chiefly as their 'older cousins' or even older siblings. The actual “Echo Boom” was a five year span between 1989 and 1993 when for the first time since 1964, the number of live births reached over four million. Previously, even the rate of 1965 (3.76 million) was not reached until 1985. Also it should be noted that the birthrate of 1971 (17.2%) has yet to be reached according to the 2000 census.CDC report- Table 1-1. Live Births, Birth Rates, and Fertility Rates, by Race: United States,1909-2000 A notable demographic shift should begin to occur in 2011 when the oldest Baby Boomers (b. 1946) hit the United States' legal retirement age of 65. As Boomers retire, more members of Generation X will be expected to take roles in middle and upper management and the large membership of Generation Y should take up positions in the lower half of the workforce, a process which could have possibly begun since some definitions have members of Gen Y in their late 20s. Many Generation Y members are labeled as being "rebellious" or "rude," but this is often an incorrect label on a generation-unique trait. Generation Yers often do not recognize authority in the same way as Boomers or Xers do. Instead of "rebelling," they react based on what or how they feel when they are approached or spoken to by authoritative figures. Members of Generation Y are additionally more inclined to firmly believe in the "an eye for an eye" principle. Generations preceding Generation Y are not as subservient to authority. Generation Z is the Generation succeeding Generation Y with its birth years beginning in the early 1990s and its ending point hotly debated possibly the events of 9/11 or later.Neil Howe, William Strauss, Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584 to 2069, 1992, ISBN 0-688-11912-3 . TRENDS AMONG MEMBERS As with previous generations, many trends (and problems) began to surface as members of Generation Y come of age.
TECHNOLOGY In their book, ''Connecting to the Net.Generation'': What Higher Education Professionals Need to Know About Today's College Students, Reynol Junco and Jeanna Mastrodicasa (2007) Reynol Junco and Jeanna Mastrodicasa Connecting to the Net.Generation: What higher education professionals need to know about today's college students, NASPA; First edition (March 29, 2007) found that in a survey of 7,705 college students:
Internet generation In his book '' Growing Up Digital '', business strategist and psychologist Don Tapscott coined the term "Net Generation" for the group, pointing at the significance of being the first to grow up immersed in a digital--and Internet--driven world. REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS Film Foreign
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