A generation is not 'youth.' Youth is just an age bracket. It's like an empty hotel room that different generations move into — with their own baggage — and then soon leave. Sometimes that room swells with sweet music, sometimes it throbs with death metal, sometimes it's utterly silent. But it's never the same.
Neil Howe
University of Mary Washington Commencement 2012, 2012
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Howe opened his substantive remarks by challenging the most common error commencement speakers make: conflating 'generation' with 'youth.' Drawing on the work of renowned sociologist Karl Mannheim, he defined a generation as a group of people who share a basic outlook on life shaped by their common age location in history. His hotel room metaphor was strikingly original — different generations check into the same stage of life but bring entirely different baggage, creating entirely different atmospheres. He used this framework to warn the audience that Boomer and Gen-X parents were fundamentally unlike their Millennial children, were not the same even when they were kids, and that their children would not become like them as they grew older. The insight set up his larger argument that generational differences go far deeper than pop culture or technology preferences.
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