Generation

===Other terminology===
The term generation is sometimes applied to a cultural movement, or more narrowly defined group than an entire demographic. Some examples include:

[[File:"Geração à Rasca" Banner.jpg|thumb|right|''Geração à Rasca'' demonstration in Lisbon, 2011]]

* The [[Stolen Generations]], refers to children of [[Aboriginal Australians]] and [[Torres Strait Islander]] descent, who were forcibly removed from their families by Australian federal and state government agencies and church missions, under Acts of their respective parliaments between approximately 1869 and 1969.<ref>[https://humanrights.gov.au/our-work/education/track-history-timeline-stolen-generations, Track the History Timeline on the Australian Human Rights]</ref>
* The [[Beat Generation]], refers to a popular American cultural movement widely cited by social scholars as having laid the foundation of the pro-active American counterculture of the 1960s. It consisted of Americans born between the two world wars who came of age in the rise of the automobile era, and the surrounding accessibility they brought to the culturally diverse, yet geographically broad and separated nation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.online-literature.com/periods/beat.php|title=The Beat Generation|access-date=29 January 2016|archive-date=10 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170710101322/http://www.online-literature.com/periods/beat.php|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Generation Jones]] is a term coined by [[Jonathan Pontell]] to describe the [[Cohort (statistics)|cohort]] of people born between 1954 and 1965. The term is used primarily in [[English-speaking countries]].<ref>{{cite book | author = Jensen, J.B. | year = 2007 | title = Future consumer tendencies and shopping behaviour: The development up until 2015-17. Research paper No. 1 | place = Denmark | publisher = Marianne Levinsen & Jesper Bo Jensen | pages = 13–17 | url = http://uk.fremforsk.dk/vis_bog.asp?AjrdcmntId=179 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130122103446/http://uk.fremforsk.dk/vis_bog.asp?AjrdcmntId=179 | archive-date = 22 January 2013 | df = dmy-all }}{{Cite news | last = Seigle | first = Greg | title = Some Call It 'Jones' | newspaper = The Washington Post | date = 6 April 2000 | url = https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/52287975.html?dids=52287975:52287975&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT | access-date = 18 February 2007 | archive-date = 23 October 2012 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121023005649/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/52287975.html?dids=52287975:52287975&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT | url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="scoop">{{cite news|title=Press Release: Generation Jones is driving NZ Voter Volatility|publisher=Scoop Independent News (NZ)|date=13 September 2005|url=http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0509/S00161.htm|access-date=18 February 2007|archive-date=22 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722125857/http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0509/S00161.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Pontell defined Generation Jones as referring to the second half of the [[post–World War II baby boom]].<ref name="telegraph">{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2000/10/15/wpres115.xml|title=Generation Jones comes of age in time for election|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=15 October 2000|access-date=12 June 2009|location=London|first=David|last=Wastell|archive-date=7 March 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070307092653/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2000%2F10%2F15%2Fwpres115.xml|url-status=dead}}</ref> The term also includes first-wave [[Generation X]].
* [[MTV Generation]], a term referring to the adolescents and young adults of the 1980s and early-mid 1990s who were heavily influenced by the [[MTV]] television channel. It is often used synonymously with [[Generation X]].<ref>{{cite news|title=The MetLife Study of Gen X: The MTV Generation Moves into Mid-Life|url=https://www.metlife.com/assets/cao/mmi/publications/studies/2013/mmi-gen-x.pdf|access-date=1 July 2017|publisher=MetLife|date=April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161021014452/https://www.metlife.com/assets/cao/mmi/publications/studies/2013/mmi-gen-x.pdf|archive-date=21 October 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Raphelson|first1=Samantha|title=From GIs To Gen Z (Or Is It iGen?): How Generations Get Nicknames|url=https://www.npr.org/2014/10/06/349316543/don-t-label-me-origins-of-generational-names-and-why-we-use-them|access-date=1 July 2017|publisher=NPR|date=6 October 2014|archive-date=1 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701053025/http://www.npr.org/2014/10/06/349316543/don-t-label-me-origins-of-generational-names-and-why-we-use-them|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/31/mtv.20/index.html |title=MTV: Rewinding 20 years of music revolution |publisher=CNN |date=1 August 2001 |access-date=11 February 2015 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304024551/http://edition.cnn.com/2001/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/31/mtv.20/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* In Europe, a variety of terms have emerged in different countries particularly hard hit following the [[financial crisis of 2007–2008]] to designate young people with limited employment and career prospects.<ref name=Itano>{{cite news|last=Itano|first=Nicole|title=In Greece, education isn't the answer|url=http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/europe/090514/greece-education-isnt-the-answer|access-date=28 January 2013|newspaper=Global Post|date=14 May 2009|archive-date=20 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520181616/http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/europe/090514/greece-education-isnt-the-answer|url-status=live}}</ref>
** ''The Generation of 500'' is a term popularized by the [[Media in Greece#Mass media|Greek mass media]] and refers to educated [[Greek people|Greek]] [[twixter]]s of urban centers who generally fail to establish a [[career]]. Young adults are usually forced into [[underemployment]] in temporary and occasional jobs, unrelated to their educational background, and receive the minimum allowable base [[salary]] of €500. This generation evolved in circumstances leading to the [[Economy of Greece#2010–2018 government debt crisis|Greek debt crisis]] and participated in the [[2010–2011 Greek protests]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15117098,00.html|title=Γενιά των 600 € και "αγανακτισμένοι" της Μαδρίτης - βίοι παράλληλοι; - Πολιτική |date=2011-05-30 |work=DW.COM|access-date=29 January 2016|archive-date=3 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903170233/http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15117098,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
** In Spain, they are referred to as the ''[[:es:Mileurista|mileuristas]]'' (for €1,000, "the thousand-euro-ists").<ref>{{cite news|last=Pérez-Lanzac|first=Carmen|title=1,000 euros a month? Dream on…|url=http://elpais.com/elpais/2012/03/12/inenglish/1331575980_208983.html|access-date=28 January 2013|newspaper=El Pais|date=12 March 2012|archive-date=22 May 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522001117/http://elpais.com/elpais/2012/03/12/inenglish/1331575980_208983.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
** In Portugal, they are called the ''[[:pt:Geração à Rasca|Geração à Rasca]]'' (the "Scraping-By Generation"); a twist on the older term ''[[:pt:Geração rasca|Geração Rasca]]'' ("the Lousy Generation") used by detractors to refer to student demonstrations in the 1990s against Education Ministers [[:pt:António Couto dos Santos|António Couto dos Santos]] and later [[Manuela Ferreira Leite]].
** In France, they are called ''Génération précaire'' ("The Precarious Generation").
** In Italy the term "generation of 1,000 euros" is used. 
* [[Xennials]], Oregon Trail Generation, and Generation Catalano are terms used to describe individuals born during Generation X/Millennial [[cuspers|cusp]] years. ''Xennials'' is a portmanteau blending the words Generation X and Millennials to describe a microgeneration of people born from the late 1970s to early 1980s.<ref name="Miller">{{cite news|last=Miller|first=Ryan|title=Are you a Xennial? How to tell if you're the microgeneration between Gen X and Millennial.|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/12/20/xennials-millennials-generation-x-microgeneration/2369230002/|access-date=20 December 2018|archive-date=1 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801093415/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/12/20/xennials-millennials-generation-x-microgeneration/2369230002/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Anna|first1=Garvey|title=The Biggest Difference Between Millennials and My Generation|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anna-garvey/the-biggest-and-best-difference-between-millennials_b_7438370.html|access-date=1 July 2017|work=Huffington Post|date=25 May 2016|archive-date=25 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170925010008/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anna-garvey/the-biggest-and-best-difference-between-millennials_b_7438370.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Xennials">{{Cite news |url=http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/06/28/xennials_a_23006562/ |title=Xennials, The Microgeneration Between Gen X And Millennials |last=D'Souza |first=Joy |date=28 June 2017 |work=[[Huffington Post]] |access-date=29 June 2017 |archive-date=29 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629071701/http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/06/28/xennials_a_23006562/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2011/10/generation_catalano_the_generation_stuck_between_gen_x_and_the_m.single.html | title = Generation Catalano | last = Shafrir | first = Doree | date = 24 October 2011 | website = Slate | publisher = The Slate Group | access-date = 1 July 2017 | archive-date = 1 July 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170701223253/http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2011/10/generation_catalano_the_generation_stuck_between_gen_x_and_the_m.single.html | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/06/28/xennials_a_23006562/|title=If You Don't Fit In With Gen X or Millennials You Might Be A Xennial"Ok Boomer"|date=2017-06-28|website=HuffPost Canada|access-date=2019-03-23|archive-date=23 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323083012/https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/06/28/xennials_a_23006562/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Zillennials]], Zennials, Snapchat Generation, and MinionZ are terms used to describe individuals born during the Millennial/Generation Z [[cuspers|cusp]] years. ''Zillennials'' is a portmanteau blending the words Millennials and Generation Z to describe a microgeneration of people born from the early 1990s to the early 2000s.<ref name="Zennials">{{cite book |author1=Hannah L. Ubl |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pZuqDgAAQBAJ |title=Managing Millennials For Dummies |author2=Lisa X. Walden |author3=Debra Arbit |date=24 April 2017 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-119-31022-8 |page=266 |chapter=Chapter 13: Making Adjustments for Ages and Life Stages}}</ref>