Talking about Generations

By Tatiana Kielberman In the last weeks a phenomenon has swept over social networks in Brazil. Nothing unexpected, especially because as social-network-addicts know, it’s impossible to predict what crazily cool thing they’ll come up with next. Allowing Orkut contacts (currently the most popular social network in Brazil) to be transferred to Facebook, is a monumental [...]

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An Interview with UT Dallas Prof Monica Rankin, creator of “The Twitter Experiment.” By Ines Schinazi Perhaps what makes Generation Y’s educational experience most different from the experience of past generations is the overwhelming presence of technology in the classroom, and all the implications this brings. While cell phones and laptops are often considered to [...]

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By Ines Schinaz I spoke with Penelope Trunk, the founder and CEO of Brazen Careerist.com Ines: You talk about how your own career never had a straight path. How did you get the idea for your blog? Was there a particular experience that made you decide to create it? Penelope: I was a columnist at [...]

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By Inês Schinazi Our writer Ines Schinazi had interviewed the Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter Michael Winerip about his new column “Generation B.” Ines: How did the idea for Generation B come about? Michael Winerip: I am of that age, so these are things that interest me. I’ve been a reporter all my life. I’ve been able [...]

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The song “comonossospais” (“Like our Parents”), written by Belchoir, and sung by Elis Regina, holds great significance, when it comes to thinking about generations. The lyrics reveal the immense gap between the singer and her parents. Even more interestingly, the song also expresses the huge gap between young people today and their parents.

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The death of Michael Jackson means the death of a brilliant entertainer who also lived between three generational planes. We could perhaps call him an “X Y Boom.” Technically born into the baby boomer generation, he speaks our parents’ language and has many fans in the baby boomer age group. And yet, nearly every time [...]

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I want to recommend this video to you.   As a very young child, I used to watch this television series. This “TV family” illustrates what a typical real life family used to look like. At that time, daddy knew everything.  Daddy knew best.  When we wanted something, we always turned to Daddy. He knew about [...]

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These days in Brazil, our kids often delay striking out to live on their own. I notice how this fills parents with conflicting emotions. On one hand, we want our kids to be mature enough to live alone, or with friends or a partner. On the other hand, as “helicopter parents,” we want them close [...]

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I write with great ease about generations.  Yet, I think it’s worthwhile to dedicate a post to explain exactly why people my aged are called “Baby Boomers.” Baby Boomers are the sons and daughters of the Veteran generation.  Veterans were born between 1922 and 1945.  As World War II came to an end, they returned [...]

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