Time-travelling millennials: Griffith Review 56

There is no such thing as a normative childhood. Generations of children might share in a collection of culturally specific circumstances, watch the same domestic and international affairs unravel in the newspapers or on the television, play with the same toys, and even indulge in the same fads, but they do so largely in isolation from each other. An awareness of ones own generation, its oddities and its quirks, comes with age.