Kirsty Allison, 3ammagazine, rise of the nu mohemians, Accessed June 19, 2014, "..."It's a marketing dream," says Tadashi, ... We call them the Oyayubizoku generation (the thumb tribe)..."
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H. MARTIN CALLE, NOVEMBER 29, 2007, Advertising Age, Multi-Cultural Marketing: The Thumb Tribe, Accessed June 19, 2014, "..'THUMB TRIBE' referring to the masses of young people around the world ..."
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25 March 2002, BBC News, Thumbs take over for text generation, Accessed June 19, 2014, "...thumbs of teenagers and young adults have become more widely used than index fingers ... more muscled and dextrous..."
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Anna Mindess, Intercultural Press, 2006, Reading Between the Signs, Accessed June 19, 2014, "..The younger generation of Japanese texters, called the thumb tribe...."
Mike Tharp, October 9, 2010, Merced Sun-Star, Mike Tharp: Maddie's inspiration -- blanketing Merced, Accessed June 19, 2014, "...We thought this younger generation -- the Thumb Tribe with their texts, tweets, tats and taggers.."
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Yuri Kageyama, Associated Press, July 16, 2008, NBC News, Japan: You can probably find an iPhone there, Accessed June 19, 2014, "...The Japanese style of texting relies mainly on a thumb ... users are dubbed "oyayubi zoku" or "thumb tribe."..."
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March 25, 2008, Brian Dubé, New York Daily Photo, Pillow Fight, Accessed June 19, 2014, "..Teenage "thumb tribes" are often cited as the origins of smart mobs..."
Justin Norrie, April 14, 2007, The Age (Australia), A nation's youth all thumbs with PCs, Accessed June 19, 2014, "...Like many of her friends and millions of other young Japanese, she appears to use only her "keitai", or mobile phone, to send and receive emails, download music, access mixi (Japan's immensely popular version of Myspace), look at web pages..."
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Amelia Hill of The Observer, 23 March 2002, The Guardian, Thumbs are the new fingers for the GameBoy generation, Accessed June 19, 2014, "...In Japan, the trend was particularly marked. ... under-25s referred to themselves as oya yubi sedai - the thumb generation, or thumb tribe..."
