A global phenomenon Cheng says that if Taiwanese born in the 1960s are the "student activist generation" or the "democratization generation," then those born in the 1980s are the "globalization generation."
全球化衝擊前青輔會主委鄭麗君曾指出，若說參與台灣民主變革的「五年級生」為「學運世代」或「民主化世代」，新世代的「七年級生」則是所謂的「全球化世代」。