[Kory]

I agree.

I mostly resonate with the older Millennials, even if I am considered Gen Z,
The thing is, I was raised by older parents, so a lot of the stuff I liked and watched was mostly from the early 80's and sometimes even into the 70's.

Also, having a hippie father, I listened to a lot of children's folk music as a kid.

I don't feel like I fit into the mold of a "millennial" in the traditional sense, and I definitely don't fit in with Gen Z.

The one thing that I feel strongly about it the evolution of things like racism and such.
When *I* was in school, gender wasn't talked about. One day I told my friends I wanted to be genderless and they laughed at me and said, "How will you pee?" ...?!?!? We were in *high school* at that time.

Nowadays, I think kids born around 2000 or later, have been raised more aware of gender differences and the idea that there are more than 2 genders. (Also, I hope kids these days know that 'gender' isn't defined by how you pee.... >:( )

And race was an issue for me too. Kids in my day couldn't understand that a white and a black person could have a child and that that child is biracial. Kids in my day thought, "well, if you have brown skin, that makes you black. You can't have a white parent because if you did, you'd be white. But you're not, so you're ALL black". Meanwhile, the black kids always had to point out that I was "different". I got called "white girl" A lot. The sad thing is, I'm *still* called "white girl" by black people to his day.

Also, those born after 9/11 might not realize how impactful that day was for many people. My dad still has an original newspaper from 9/11.

And the kids of today (some of them anyway) grew up with a black president! I mean, that's mind-blowing to me! I remember when Obama became president, it was amazing! Just the thought... A *black* president! Like, when I was a kid, there weren't even black people in the Disney parades... There was no black princesses or anything!

And not just that... we have a biracial princess! (Meghan Markle)
When I was a kid, there were no biracial people on TV or anything. It was hard because there was no one to really look up to at that time.
When the movie "Belle" came out (Based on a true story of a biracial aristocrat) I cried because all my life, I've never seen a biracial person on TV who wasn't a slave or a sidekick to the main character.... And this woman was REAL on top of that! It was... amazing. Truly.

I hope the next generations never have to experience what I did growing up, and I really hope that they appreciate how far we've come as a society.