According to social researcher Mark McCrindle in his book 'The ABC of XYZ: Understanding the Global Generations' (www.mccrindle.com.au), this is what we can expect the next generation to be called. Given the fact that the generational span has contracted significantly from 20-25 years to 15 years, he also predicts that the next generation is due to begin in 2010.
So, why 'Beta'? With generational analysis having moved from a stage of foundation to consolidation, a more predictable labelling system is being formed. There being consensus on the alphabetised theme of Generations X, Y and Z, it is most likely that the next generation will be Generation Alpha (the first letter of the Greek alphabet). This nomenclature of moving to the Greek alphabet after exhausting the Latin one (A, B, C, D etc), has a long history with meteorologists. In fact, scientists of all disciplines use the Greek alphabet as a labelling sequence and so it looks likely that the sociologists will follow this trend with the generations too.
"Do you know they are saying the next generation will be called Generation Beta?"
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The opposite of a power bottom, a person who performs the penetrative action during sex.
He rocks my world. He's an amazing dick-general.
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The Court General can be found at any local gym or rec center. There is at least one in every pick-up game that gets going at the basketball court. This tool will not only be on your team, he will also hog the ball roughly 85% of the time, and won't hesitate to bark unintelligible orders at complete strangers on their team because of their great knowledge of the game. Amazingly, every time they play with others, they are having "the worst game of their lives," which they will yell after missing a shot as if that sort of thing never happens to them. Expect them to air-ball at least three 3-pointers and probably be on the losing side.
Steve: Our team might have won, but i had a guy on mine who shot 0-18 and didn't pass it to anyone. He sucked ass.
Gary: Court General, huh? They're the worst.
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E Generation is the definition of Entitled Adult children who Estrange from their parents out of distorted self-important rationalizations of being superior over others, yet never having put forth effort to actually achieve anything of significance on their own. Entitlement and Estranged being the key words.
They will withhold visits to the grandchildren as a weapon to control their own parents/grandparents. Parents of the Entitled/Estranged children are often blindsided by the cruel tactics used by their own children, which include but are not limited to: manipulative tactics, character assassination, false accusations, legal restraining orders, demands for apologies for "crimes" that were never committed except in the fantastical thinking of the accuser, extortion for funds to buy things like houses and cars or to pay bills for their progeny, often times estranging from decent parents as the ultimate power play to hurt and control those who have been responsible caregivers. The battles are recognizable as fierce completion of child against parent at all costs.
What is it with all these adult children who become tyrants and attempt to rule the roost with an iron fist? Just typical of the E Generation
The E-generation-a generation of teens and young adults that feel so empowered and entitled that they often clash with their parents, creating a palpable power struggle within the family. This often leaves good parents alone, depressed, and completely befuddled as to what they did wrong. ha
E Generation participants will expect others to just believe that they practically raised themselves in an ultra "abusive" household, but anyone who has observed their upbringing knows that they were indulged, given resources unconditionally, and well-loved by devoted parents. Estranging from those parents is the ultimate "temper tantrum" thrown by spoiled, entitled adult children in order to punish their parents for loving them too much.
She has blocked her parents from FB and won't let them see the grandchildren because she didn't like them "trying to control" her with their opinions. More Weak sauce and manipulation from an E-Gen!
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The earliest children of Generation Z are those born in and after 1990 and are often the children of generation X. They are unique as they have grown up with the internet. This generation is very networked with social networks and many means of communication and means of entertainment at their finger tips such as Cell Phones, iPod, Facebook, YouTube and IM. Digital networking and sharing is common and many have not known a time without the internet and are often referred to as digital natives.
Generation Z is the digital generation
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1) What our grandchildren living in caves and mud huts will write in books as the cause of the end of the civilized world.
2)Anybody born after August 8th, 1981. 90% of these people have been guided to life by shows such as road rules and the real world. They will listen to anything MTV tells them to listen to, and buy anything MTV tells them to buy. The End of free will. Led Zeppelin will still live in our hearts though, the one of the last bands before the music died.
-Side Note: Nirvana somehow managed to cause a short break in the MTV generation, but MTV planned an assination of Kurt Cobain. People still think he committed suicide.
It's sad, because I'm a part of this generation, and I can see what MTV did to my friends. Its so hard on a person like me.
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The highest-ranking law enforcement officer in the United States of America. He or she is appointed by the current President of the United States to serve at the cabinet level for as long as the appointing President is in power. He or she must be confirmed by the United States Congress before he or she can take the oath of office.
Janet Reno was the Attorney General under President Clinton.
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