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Ape said:
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Generation X,
commonly abbreviated to Gen X, is the generation born after the Western Post–World War II baby boom. Demographers, historians and commentators use birth dates ranging from the early 1960s to the early 1980s. The term has also been used in different times and places for a number of different subcultures or countercultures since the 1950s.


Millennials,
also known as the Millennial Generation, or Generation Y, is the demographic cohort following Generation X. Commentators use birth dates ranging from the early 1980s to the early 2000s.
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Don't understand the X and Millenials.. Both start in early 80's so I am X and millenial? I'm 30.
 
So proud to be a Gen X'er. I dont think i'd be able to live with myself if i was one of those entitled millenials
 
1992 so I guess first wave millenial? And yes the disconnect with the "traditional" 80's kids and the "absolutelt bonkers" post 1999 kids is real.
 
I've never understood how those of us born in the early-mid 80's are lumped into the same generation as people who were born in the 90s. 30-somethings and 16-17 year olds are completely different and that's an almost two decade difference.

And how does growing up in the 80s through the 90s make us a millennial? The name makes no sense to me.
 
nasax said:
Well a generation is more or less a 20 year gap, so that seems to be right.
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Sister was born late 70s. Does she have all that much in common with someone born in the early 60s who's well into their 50s now? In practice, not much.

Realistically generations are more 10-12 years. The baby boom was statistically only about late 40s to mid 60s. And that's being generous: so 15 years tops. 20 years is a huge gap.
 
Yasae said:
Sister was born late 70s. Does she have all that much in common with someone born in the early 60s who's well into their 50s now? In practice, not much.

Realistically generations are more 10-12 years. The baby boom was statistically only about late 40s to mid 60s. And that's being generous: so 15 years tops. 20 years is a huge gap.
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Exactly. I don't get these 20 year generations. A generation should be 10 years. If you look at gen Y, how the heck do 30-somethings get lumped into the same generation as teenagers?
 
I only read the first 5 posts, but it's probably fair to say that most of us will fit into 'Millennials'. Even some of the 30-year-olds on this forum will be Millennials, which then raises the questions being discussed above.
 
Yasae said:
Sister was born late 70s. Does she have all that much in common with someone born in the early 60s who's well into their 50s now? In practice, not much.

Realistically generations are more 10-12 years. The baby boom was statistically only about late 40s to mid 60s. And that's being generous: so 15 years tops. 20 years is a huge gap.
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Well are you talking about generation when it comes with offspring or are you talking about a social generation? If it's the latter, I agree.
 
One of the main differences that people refer to when talking about millennials, isn't that the idea that they have always had the internet and take it for granted while previous generations are still amazed by the whole thing.
As an "early" millennial, I feel like I have experienced the transition just as much as any generation x's.
Well, generational generalizations are dumb anyway.
 
Tail end of gen x by most categorizations (Dec. '79), though I feel like I have more in common with the early millenals than the older gen xers.
 
Just barely millennial (1982), but I'm categorizing myself as one anyway because I generally feel younger than my chronological age.

It's academic, anyway. Eventually the later millennials and Gen Zers, and then Gen Z and Gen AA/whatever comes after Z, will get to fight over where their dividing lines are. At that point my personal dilemma won't matter anymore because I will simply be Old, and ideally will give less of a fuck than I do now. (I can't imagine many people on the borderline between baby boomers and Gen X going through this, though there are probably some.)
 
'85er here and I already hate Gen Z. Aka the "Tumblr don't that offends me trigger ultra PC" generation. Fuck the boomers too, so unaware and ignorant to how badly they've fucked everything up.

Gen X is cool though.

In all honesty I feel like my generation is kind of a middle ground between Gen X and millenial. I grew up with rotary phones, tape cassettes, smoking EVERYWHERE, no Internet until I was a teenager etc. But I'm also very tech savvy and use a lot of social media. I still don't feel like I belong truly in either camp.
 
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That's a damn good post. 10/10 Would read again.

Anyway, it seems I'm gen X / millennial
 
I'm a "millennial" and I hear about it every god damned day.

I work for a huge retailer who's taking a nosedive in profits due to the "millennial" way of life, so they're always looking for ways to advertise to "us" and demonizing "us".

It's disgusting and I hate the connotation that's associated with the term "millennial".
 
I've always thought the term "Greatest Generation" was a load of pretentious bullshit. The fact that they spawned the baby boomers is enough reason to question it. We're still trying to undo all the sexist, racist, environmentally damaging shit they put in place. So your Isolationist ass got pulled into a war and it turned out the man you were fighting was a monster? Congrats and thanks for doing the right thing, even if it took a while to take any action. But that doesn't excuse all the other shit you did and the shitty things you continue to do today, and it certainly doesn't earn you the title "greatest".
 
fester said:
I've always thought the term "Greatest Generation" was a load of pretentious bullshit. The fact that they spawned the baby boomers is enough reason to question it. We're still trying to undo all the sexist, racist, environmentally damaging shit they put in place. So your Isolationist ass got pulled into a war and it turned out the man you were fighting was a monster? Congrats and thanks for doing the right thing, even if it took a while to take any action. But that doesn't excuse all the other shit you did and the shitty things you continue to do today, and it certainly doesn't earn you the title "greatest".
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Baby Boomers (Tom Brokaw) called their parents the Greatest Generation. They didn't call themselves anything.
 
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