Nigeria, Jan. 19 -- One outcome of an increasingly connected world is the globalisation of the market for cultural goods. Consequently, social categories and concepts are transferred across cultural settings, often with scant regard for the processes by which they were originally produced. One admittedly perverse effect of this process is that in the societies that consume these cultural products (in search of neat explanations for difficult local phenomena), idiosyncratic experiences are simply shoehorned into new categories. According to the most popular demographic classification available today, the writers of this opinion piece are a couple representing the Baby Boomers on one hand, and the Generation Xers on the other hand. What doe...