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“Millennials Are Not Getting Married!” and “How to Deal with Generation MZ in the ____” are some newspaper headlines that have been featured in recent years.

The Gen MZ concept is everywhere and is often used to frame a generational conflict or ____ a social phenomenon.

Can a ____ approach help solve our social issues?

And to what extent can our generation labels define ____ we are, or predict our behavior?

____ Are Generations Classified?

Sociologists classify ____ based on an individual’s birth year.

The four most recent generations are ____ boomers, Generation X, Generation Y (or millennials), and Generation Z.

Baby boomers are named so because the birth rate was significantly higher when they were ____.

But since Korea and the U.S. experienced dramatic population increases during ____ periods, their classifications of baby boomers differ accordingly.

In the U.S., baby boomers are people born between 1946 and 1964, but in ____, baby boomers are those born between 1955 and 1963.

Generation X (____) earned its name from the title of a book written by Douglas Coupland in 1991.

____ to the book, people in their twenties in that era had a relaxed and laid-back lifestyle.

The following generations, born after Generation X, were later ____ Y (1981-1996) and Z (1997-2012).

Members of Generation Y are also ____ millennials because they became adults with the beginning of the new millennium.

The cohort effect and the traditional notion of a generation are closely ____.

Broadly speaking, each generation is defined by the birth years of its ____.

According to the theory of generational cohorts, individuals who ____ to a particular generation are socialized in distinct conditions compared to other generations.

They experience similar political, economic, and social events during their early stages of life, which shape their ____, values, and behaviors in similar ways.

The cohort effect results in characteristic differences between ____.

For instance, Koreans went through the ____ financial crisis, also known as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) crisis.

____ Xers were in their 20s at that time, and thus experienced great employment instability.

This may have led them to prioritize secure ____ for their children.

In contrast, Gen Zers grew up with smartphones, and this earned ____ the “digital natives” label.

They are accustomed to getting their news, ____, and advice from social media.

Their strength in using ____ media, however, often leads them to lack social skills.

Do Gen Xers only care about job ____ while Gen Zers are entirely selfish?

____ simple classifications as this rarely prove to be accurate.

The life cycle effect suggests that major ____ events, such as leaving home, separating from parents, getting married, or having children, can alter people’s values and attitudes.

Many individuals say they used to be more adventurous and drawn to liberal lifestyles ____ their youth.

But they tend to become ____ responsible after getting married and take fewer risks after having children.

A case in point is the assessment of millennials in the ____.

In the early 2000s, when this group initially entered the job market, they were ____ as being less committed to their companies.

However, as they aged and got used to their roles, they began to be increasingly recognized as ____ workers.

This illustrates that the pursuit of freedom is more characteristic of youth than of a ____ generation, as certain attitudes and behaviors naturally develop during different life stages.

Apart from when a person is born or which life ____ they are going through, some radical changes, like the climate crisis, affect all age groups.

According to some U.S. survey results, there was no significant age divide in ____ the importance of climate change around the world.

Nearly half of each generation responded that the rise in world temperature is ____ dangerous.

Another survey conducted by German researchers showed similar consumption rates of ethical products ____ older and younger generations.

When baby boomers were young, climate change was not such a prominent issue and therefore was not ____ of a concern.

But now, regardless of ____, people across different generations are concerned about its effects.

These different perspectives suggest that we should be ____ not to make hasty judgments about people according to their generation labels.

We ____ want to consider only when a person was born.

This can lead to overgeneralizations that don’t capture ____ aspects of a person’s unique individual identity.

We should consider various perspectives, which will ____ us achieve a better understanding of people regardless of their generation.