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固有名詞

Gen Y

1. Clipping of Generation Y.

   Coordinate terms: Gen X, Gen Z

   • 2008, Dianne Bender, Design Portfolios: Moving from Traditional to Digital, Fairchild Books, →ISBN, page 40:

     If you are a member of Gen Y, you probably feel right at home working with computers and digital media.

   • 2013, Diane E. Spiegel, The Gen Y Handbook: Applying Relationship Leadership to Engage Millennials, SelectBooks, →ISBN:

     Since "entitlement" has been a word consistently used to describe the attitude Millennials bring with them, this chapter explains why this perception of Gen Y is rampant and what being entitled means to them.

   • 2017 March 16, Pearl Bullivant, “Shine Bright like a Diamond”, in The Beast‎, archived from the original on 14 June 2024:

     In a neo-conservative era where parents have regressed by dressing their daughters as pink princesses, where toy stores segregate their merchandise according to ‘gender’, where women playing NFL in bikinis is ‘sport’, and where Miss Universe is every adolescent girl’s ambition, was I really that gullible to believe that Gen Y would radically commit engagement rings – and, hence, elaborate weddings – to the dumpster?

   • 2022, Tim Elmore, A New Kind of Diversity: Making the Different Generations on Your Team a Competitive Advantage, Maxwell Leadership, →ISBN, pages 271–272:

     According to [Mark] McCrindle, “Gen Alpha will likely stay in education longer, start their earning years later and so stay at home with their parents later than even their predecessors, Gen Z and Gen Y. […]”

語源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek -γένεια (-géneia).