The purpose of this article is to provide readers with a brief overview of expert analysis, gathered from various sources, regarding the behavior of different human "generations" throughout history. It outlines, in broad strokes, a series of incredible shifts and changes that have occurred in contemporary society during the 20th and early 21st centuries. These behavioral changes have shaped a distinct personality for each era, which many scholars refer to as "generations." Scholars of "chronology" have considered these age periods and described them using a vast array of factors for each group: seven in total. Therefore, it is important to understand them and learn about their respective journeys through life.

 

1 - The Interbellum Generation grew up during the Great Depression, its character shaped by austerity and sacrifice. This group comprises those born between 1918 and 1939, meaning they grew up in the interwar period, making them too young to fight in World War I and too old for World War II.

 

2 - The Greatest Generation comprises people born between 1901 and 1927. It is also known as the World War II generation, who grew up during the Great Depression, but, unlike the previous generation, fought or lived through the war.

 

3 - The Baby Boomer Generation is that of those who opened their eyes to the world between 1946 and 1964 when the Second World War ended, so they were focused on the culture of effort and the traditional reconstruction of their respective countries. 

 

4 - Generation X was born between 1965 and 1980, which allowed them to foster the initial technological culture, valuing independence and job stability to a very high degree.

 

5 - Generation Y, known as the “Millennials”, appeared between 1981 and 1996, which allowed them to live in the analog-digital transition, an extraordinary balance between life, work and acquired experiences.

 

6 - Generation Z or Centennials (born between 1997 and 2012): They are experts in the internet and social media, which are their natural tools, not a new phenomenon. They favor hybrid work, highly value mental health, and expect ethical practices from companies regarding climate change and other potential labor-related achievements.

 

7 - Generation Alpha has not yet arrived, but it is the one that scholars estimate will follow the chronological order, and later the Beta generation, very much in line with the digital age with its consequent Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT.

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In each generation, the personalities of its representatives have almost always subtly changed—though sometimes the changes have been enormous—so that they could adapt to the environment and, therefore, survive and thrive in the next phase. Nevertheless, each generation has, in some way, copied what had happened in the one before it, acquiring a different appearance, a different way of seeing things, but without losing what they consider glamour. So, for example, the music that shone in one era transcended into the next, but the latter modified some details to suit the times they were living in, so that they could claim credit for their achievements. And so it has been time and again in countless disciplines.

 

We have the case of fashions, clothing, hairstyles and haircuts, tattoos on any part of the face and body, piercings (earrings or perforations) that are placed according to each person's taste wherever they like - also everywhere, whether they suit them or not, according to the opinion of others.

 

Very few of their contemporaries criticize them because they understand that with age comes the acceptance or preference for new eras. On the contrary, most of society views favorably the openness with which they—those of the new generation—present themselves and considers them icons of the latest fashion trends in terms of avant-garde style. 

However, every generation has personally experienced the debacles, conflicts, wars, and massacres of its time and, consequently, has had to endure the irreparable loss of hundreds of millions of lives over the years, decades, and centuries. It is immensely sad, but it is an undeniable truth.

 

At this point in history, no one can conceive of a generation that has not had to endure the deaths of its contemporaries, always young, who perhaps because they were stronger, more skilled, or more agile, were selected by their elders for certain confrontations of a military, social, or both nature, in a chain of trials, dangers, and dilemmas that have ended in disastrous wars, cutting down the peace and happiness of many families throughout the belligerent conflagrations.  

 

Of course, the older generation has never "self-selected" itself, so it has always been the young who have "paid the price," as the saying goes. It is the young who have risked their lives for ideologies, egos, territories beyond their own borders, lusts for power, and other foreign attributes that can be ascribed to certain individuals who have had the opportunity to lead or help lead their respective countries.

 

In this way, we can, in a certain sense, attribute to young people the ups and downs that have occurred in the idiosyncrasies of their respective nations and the respective symptoms of authoritarianism, greed, evil and other adjectives of their leaders or rulers of the time in the various eras analyzed by experts in the field.

 

It is lamentable that life leads us—whether we like it or not—down these paths, driven by some people who are out of touch with reality and driven by all superfluous ambitions. Unfortunately, these paths lead nowhere near paradise, much less to the peace we all yearn for to a greater or lesser degree. Consequently, the families that make up these nations suffer internally from the catastrophes caused by the squandering of resources, the scarcity of their most precious possessions, and the misguided course.

 

Meanwhile, all we can do is add "good luck with your plans" and hope that, after all, the projections turn out well and in line with the humblest aspirations of the inhabitants of each region.