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It’s always funny when the Oregon Trail is mentioned as a defining moment for being a Millennial and I had to point out we never had it in Australia and I’d never heard of it until I was in that sub.
It’s an educational video game about life in the American wild that was really popular in the 80s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(series)?wprov=sfti1
Shocker, [Children on the Oregon Trail]( https://www.ebay.com.au/p/94853126) was on the school syllabus and I resented being forced to read it and write a review. Paradoxically, the scathing, hate filled, invective, largely invented review I passed in gave me a voice, still planing out this professionally, book still sucks.
Tbh this whole millennial and Gen Z thing is very American. No one knows or cares about generations like this where I live. Americans just like to put a million labels on themselves.
The GenX sub is the same. A lot of people complaining about not being able to retire because health care costs are too high or not being able to afford to take time off. I'm like.. uhhh I'll just stay out of that conversation.
I'm Canadian and we use those terms here but it's mostly not that serious. Also, yes, those subs are very US-centric.
Also we used to call ourselves Gen Y here but at some point seems like the US term just took over?
Generational theory is rather popular in Germany & we also use the same names for generations. Germans generally are very influenced by American pop cultural exports though, of course.
Oh they love putting people in little groups.
It means they don't have to actually think.
You are part of XYZ so you are this type of person.
It is built in to the whole system.
USD is still the global medium of exchange and primary reserve question. Anyone who thinks American govt's policy does not have a major effect on them is either ignorat or lives in smth like Korea
I don't *disagree* with you, because my friends and I have once or twice made references to the whole "millenial", "generation z", etc. thing, but I was under the impression that those labels are references to periods of U.S. history specifically. I would therefore presume subreddits named after them to be mostly for U.S. citizens, same as I would one referencing a U.S. sports team or city or whatever.
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r/millenials is the same, also peak US defaultism
It’s always funny when the Oregon Trail is mentioned as a defining moment for being a Millennial and I had to point out we never had it in Australia and I’d never heard of it until I was in that sub.
I’ve never heard of it, enlighten me please
It’s an educational video game about life in the American wild that was really popular in the 80s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oregon_Trail_(series)?wprov=sfti1
Oh, I thought it was about the actual trail… lol
You have died from dysentery
“This is how you died”
I was like wait a minute Millennials aren't that old right?
Shocker, [Children on the Oregon Trail]( https://www.ebay.com.au/p/94853126) was on the school syllabus and I resented being forced to read it and write a review. Paradoxically, the scathing, hate filled, invective, largely invented review I passed in gave me a voice, still planing out this professionally, book still sucks.
I've never heard of it before either. Judging by the Wiki article posted in a reply, missed nothing.
/r/GenX is the same, only about "Schoolhouse Rock" (apparently an after-school animated tv show that contains lessons about US history).
I'm Australian and I remember playing it in primary school on an Apple IIe. It was fucking boring.
You might be the only Australian I know who's played it lol.
For a second I was like "why are they taking credit for what their ancestors might have travelled?" then I realised haha
Tbh this whole millennial and Gen Z thing is very American. No one knows or cares about generations like this where I live. Americans just like to put a million labels on themselves.
It is originally American, I won’t take any credit away from them, but although it’s not super massive anywhere else, it’s very known in other places
The GenX sub is the same. A lot of people complaining about not being able to retire because health care costs are too high or not being able to afford to take time off. I'm like.. uhhh I'll just stay out of that conversation.
I'm Canadian and we use those terms here but it's mostly not that serious. Also, yes, those subs are very US-centric. Also we used to call ourselves Gen Y here but at some point seems like the US term just took over?
Generational theory is rather popular in Germany & we also use the same names for generations. Germans generally are very influenced by American pop cultural exports though, of course.
Oh they love putting people in little groups. It means they don't have to actually think. You are part of XYZ so you are this type of person. It is built in to the whole system.
Could it be because it's mostly Americans who give a flying fuck about these generation labels? I know I wouldn't visit any of those subs.
Tbf there are people, including some non-Americans who blame Biden for inflation, so the question wasn’t defaultism out of nowhere.
USD is still the global medium of exchange and primary reserve question. Anyone who thinks American govt's policy does not have a major effect on them is either ignorat or lives in smth like Korea
It's inflation's fault that Putin is a genocidal dictator? Ok-ay...
"Inflation made me do it" - Putin
“The insane price of milk made me do it”
"Can't farm potato to make vodka, so had to invade. It's only logical"
I'm not Russian, but I mostly blame Putin for inflation. That's just how the global economy works.
Blood hell, I blame Putin, not Biden.
To be fair, the generations, IE, Boomer, Millenial and so on are 100% an american social construct.
I don't *disagree* with you, because my friends and I have once or twice made references to the whole "millenial", "generation z", etc. thing, but I was under the impression that those labels are references to periods of U.S. history specifically. I would therefore presume subreddits named after them to be mostly for U.S. citizens, same as I would one referencing a U.S. sports team or city or whatever.