"Gen Alpha" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2016, Joeri Van Den Bergh, How Cool Brands Stay Hot: Branding to Generations Y and Z, Kogan Page, page 11",
          "text": "Gen Alphas are the kindergarten and pre-school children of Millennials.",
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          "ref": "2022, Mark White, 5-Gen Leadership: Leading 5 Generations in Schools in the 2020s, Corwin Press",
          "text": "Gen Zers and Gen Alphas are seeing the political work of their peers via the internet and are adapting a more global view of political causes.",
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          "ref": "2022, Tim Elmore, A New Kind of Diversity: Making the Different Generations on Your Team a Competitive Advantage, Maxwell Leadership, pages 271–272",
          "text": "According to [Mark] McCrindle, “Gen Alpha will likely stay in education longer, start their earning years later and so stay at home with their parents later than even their predecessors, Gen Z and Gen Y. The role of parents, therefore, will span a longer age range—with many of these Gen Alphas likely to still be living at home later into their 20s.”",
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          "ref": "2022, Carol A. Darling, Dawn Cassidy, Sharon M. Ballard, Family Life Education: Working with Families across the Lifespan, 4th edition, Long Grove, Ill.: Waveland Press, page 77",
          "text": "Millennials, Gen Zers, and Gen Alphas who have been reared on evolving technologies, may also have little tolerance for lecture-style learning (Hughes, 2020; Mohr & Mohr, 2017; Zarra, 2017).",
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