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Can I please be an honorary Gen X-er? I was born in June 1961, and am just six months shy of the cut-off date. I have nothing in common the baby boomers!!
So, are you saying the boom started at the beginning of WWII and not the end? I had always heard the boom started when the men came home from the war (with all of that pent up demand) and was a 20 year phenomenon, making Gen X 1965-1985.
You mean like the real value of g is 9.8 m/s^2 or the real number of centimeters in one meter is 100?
That kind of real?
Of course you don't. Labels like "Generation X" and "Baby Boomers" are just that - labels. They're not "real". This argument is just plain silly.
Is '62 the year of a marked birth-rate drop? And is '81 a year of marked birth-rate increase? Just curious, because it would seem to me that things would fluctuate in a 2-4 year pattern rather than a 20 year gap.
Just curious about a subject I know little about (statistics).
Generation X started when John F. Kennedy was killed on Nov 22, 1963 and ended when Ronald Reagan was sworn into office on Jan 20, 1981.
That's all there is to it!
I, I, I, I, I. The self-absorbed generation.
This is the best news I have heard all day. Born in 1962, it warms my heart to know I am NOT a baby boomer. I never felt like one anyway. I'll stick with the Xers thank-you very much!
Generation X and proud of it!
Thank you!!
I'm not as "old" an X er as I thought I was. I kept reading that it started in 66.
People on this thread are using these terms like there is something scientific to them. In reality, there is no magic dividing lines- the closest thing to that would be something like the end of the War.
1975 is often given for the year Gen-X ends because 1976 birth rates started to increase again but 1982 is usually given for the start of Gen-Y because kids born in that year would have became adults/graduated high school in 2000 (hence their other nickname Millennials)
BTW, See my homepage I have the names of the Generations going back to Columbus
Hmmm...I am at a total loss now...DOB 61 puts me on the edge of the BB gen, yet I feel so Gen-X having embraced technology and computer programing...
The conflict is destroying my sense of self and identity...
I just want to sign up on the next Tuna boat leaving port...I cant handle it
I was born in '61 and always considered myself NOT a part of the Boomer generation, and all my friends are Xers. I didn't have to worry about the Vietnam draft (ended when I was 11), and numerous other things boomers consider their rite of passage, simply don't apply to me. If anything, Gen X should be expanded to 1960, not contracted to the '70s.
FINALLY! I am so tired of being lumped in with the Boomers (no offense to all the FR boomers who obviously were able to move past the 60's). I was born in '64 and my idealogy, beliefs and experiences fall squarely in the X gen. /rant