Breathe
By Edmée Pardo
Labeling people avoids any kind of reflection on the human being in front of us. We give them a certain title and with that we think we understand them. Labeling entire generations, based on the decades of birth and the circumstances in which they lived, tries to explain the common traits of a society or to define what can be called "the airs of those times", although many people do not feel represented. People who lived through the dictatorship era in Spain and Latin America are known as the Generation of Silence; Baby Boomers are those born after the post-war period between 1946 and 1964; Generation X to those born between 1960 and 1980; Millennials to those born between 1981 and 1996; Generation Z to those who came into the world between 1990 and 2010; and now those born between 2000 and 2015 are called the Crystal Generation. That name describes the emotional fragility of an overprotected youth with little tolerance for criticism. Although inaccurate and partial, these labels are an indicator.
