[Welsh Rabbit]

Generation X, born between 1961 and 1981

GENERATION Y, born between 1982 and 2000

This is a pretty bad breakdown for the Generation X and Y thing. Someone born in 1977 (such as myself) is going to have more in common (pop culturally) with someone born in the early eighties than with someone born in the early sixties. And there's quite a gap between 2000 and the early eighties.

[College Repub]

I’d agree. Born in 81 and don’t consider myself to be part of either generation. I’d group things more along the lines of 1960-1975, 1976-1985, 1985-2000, 2000->

But then we’d run out of alphabet letters.

[LibertyRocks]

I would agree with that... My sister who was born in 1979 seems to have grown up on a completely different planet than I did (I was born in ‘72). I would hesitate before placing her in “my” generation... Anyone who doesn’t remember Reagan’s presidency I don’t think fits into Gen X, IMHO.

[Melas]

There are no good breakdowns. I tend to prefer this once since I’m obviously Gen-X (I was born in late 1963), even though Qam prefers the 1965-1981 breakdown. Thing is, with a 20 year spread, there is going to be little in common. Sociologically a generation should be 10 years even though 20 years is a good biological definition.

[weegee]

There is no way that Gen X goes up to those born in 1981. The “X” (from Douglas Copeland’s book, not the band that predated it by well over a decade), is the “baby bust”. The Baby Boomers who started having kids brought us Generation Y, another boom.

[defconw]

True, but I was born in 1963 and my experience and culture is more attuned to yours then it is to those born in the 50’s.