Sobre a expressão 'Millennials'

Nos Estados Unidos, a expressão Millennials é muito abundante e serve para descrever todos aqueles que nasceram depois de 1980. É uma expressão sobretudo demográfica, ainda que muitas vezes usada em diversos contextos sociais, e corresponde a um alinhamento sequencial de classificação de gerações muito tradicional nos Estados Unidos.

A expressão foi criada por «Strauss and Howe (William Strauss and Neil Howe) are authors and speakers known for their theories about a recurrent cycle of generations in history. The two have co-authored a number of books on the subject and have a publishing, speaking and consulting company called Life Course Associates» (wikipedia); «The Fourth Turning (1997) is the third book by William Strauss and Neil Howe. It expands the theory they presented in their first book Generations by examining the generations in Anglo-American history since the War of the Roses (1459-1487). It classifies every generation into an archetype explaining the function, motivation and course of each. The second half of the book specifically looks at the five most recent generations (G.I., Silent, Boomers, 13th and Millennial)»

«Meet the Millennials, born in or after 1982 (...) » (Howe, 2000: 4); nascidos até 2002 (pag 41)  

«The first Millennial babies were born in 1982, walked in 1983, talked in 1984, reached kindergarten in 1987, and entered middle school in 1994 and high school in 1996.» (Howe, 2000: 309)