memes

I'm not acting like there's only one country in the world and nothing in my comment would suggest I think the US was omnipotent and wonderful, unless you think racism and Islamophobia and turning against other countries is somehow wonderful.

If I see a post that talks about how too many parents are giving their kids tablets, my first thought is not "there are so many places where no one even owns a tablet, stop generalizing". This is a random meme, not a manifesto on global issues. The term millennial isn't even used globally and often different countries will have different ideas of what a generation is and what to call it. In South Africa some "millennials" would be part of the "born-free generation", in Northern Ireland you might call them "Peace Babies", in china "Post 90s". Terms from the US might make their way abroad, but "baby boomers" certainly was not a phenomenon in every country. Getting upset that someone is using a US made term in a meme in English on a site where the plurality of the traffic is from the US is a weird choice. I don't know if Ukrainians consider themselves millennials but it seems like people who did at least some sociology have made the following divisions: the Soviet generation (age 60 years and older), who were 30 years old when the Soviet Union collapsed; second, the transition generation (45–59 years old), who were educated and launched in the Soviet Union; third, the post-Soviet generation (30–44 years old), who were educated in independent Ukraine and have little memory of the USSR; and fourth, the young generation (18–29 years old), who have no memory or experience of the USSR.

Again, I don't know what is the most popular term in Ukraine, but it's clear that generations mean different things to different people and using millennials in a US centric way is pretty standard. It's not our place to act like we can use our sociology names for social cohorts globally and have that be reasonable. So if anything the use of the term to describe US sentiments (or other countries that feel like their experience aligns closely enough) is a good way to honor other countries and cultures agency and autonomy.