I used to think I was young until I was told that I fall under Generation X, being born between the early 1960s and the early 1980s-that means Filipinos born during the extended term of Ferdinand Marcos (1965-1986), or those who call themselves “martial law babies,” who were born or came of age between 19. Many of them are the products of OFW parents or of the union of a Filipino parent and a foreign one. Millennials are those born or who came of age in the euphoria of Edsa 1986. They are the “Generation Y” we encounter in today’s workforce as we wait for the term to describe “Generation Z” (for those born after 2000). Millennials are Filipinos born between the mid-1980s and early 2000. What we have is a timeline on which to lay the narrative of nation and nationhood, and within that timeline are many other divisions like the description of different generations of Filipinos, the current being the “millennials.” In the Philippines, our story is usually broken up into: prehistory (not the time of the dinosaurs but the time before written records), the pre-Spanish period (from 900 AD to the time the Laguna Copper Plate Inscription was made, or 1565), the Spanish period (from 1565, the time Legazpi took possession of the Philippines for Spain, to 1898 when Filipinos declared independence from Spain in Kawit), the First Republic (1899-1901 marks the short-lived Philippine Republic under Aguinaldo), the American period (1900-1942), the Japanese period (1942-1945), and then the postwar period broken up politically under the terms of various presidents from Roxas to Duterte. History is such a long story that it has to be broken up into parts to make textbook study easier.
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