Huh, I always considered Gen-Xers to be have been born no later than the mid 70s, or so.
Poll: Which Generation Are You?
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#32'81 is gen x? Didn't know that...
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#33By birthdate, Generation X. By culture, I probably belong to a new generation of future transhumanists that's growing up right now...
What cultural expresions you found defining for this new generation?
Im 1979, so Gen X; but dont feel like im a prototypical genxer, maybe cause im at the tail (ending Gen X, beginning Gen Y.
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#34Baby Boomer here. Not proud of it. Don't apologise for it either. Come to think about it, never really thought about it that much. I spend lots of time with people from age 4 to 92 and never think about which "generation" they're in. Frankly, I think it's a giant non-issue. I do know that we didn't have all this cool technology when I was in college, but I sure am glad we do now. Having suffered with earlier stuff ma…
Dear Sir: As the primary account-holder of the future which your generation has mortgaged, I would kindly request that you address all future payments to us, directly. Additionally, it has come to our attention that your account is more than 90 days past due, and we must inform you that if you do not begin making payments immediately, we will be forced to turn over your debt to collections. If you do not respond, you…
Dear Sir:
As always, Fuck You and thanks for the $700 Billion. We'll also be interested in changing more laws to make sure we don't retire and that you can't get promoted into the executive level jobs that you have waited for. We got them first, nyah nyah. Any attempt to disagree with the way we run things we be met with our votes, which will always outnumber yours.
Oh yeah, make sure you pay our kids right. Even if it's more than you ever made and bankrupts your company.
Yours,
Boomers.
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#35Annoying - I keep on seeing different standards for X and Y, and never know which one I belong to, because I was born at the end of 1981. I am XY I guess.
Same here, 1979. Dont feel quite an X guy. More X than Y though.
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#36Generation Y. Born and lived in a small South Asian country for 19 years. In the US for the last 3 years pursuing undergrad CS degree in a not so popular university with a decent CS program. Not gone back home since I arrived in the US.
Ah, this reminds me of what I really identify with more than age groups: a sort of 'international' set. I'm American, from Oregon, married to an Italian woman, living in Austria. Amongst our best friends here are an Australian couple, an Italian/Mexican couple across the border in Italy, and various and sundry Americans, Italians, French and so forth.
Not having that is one of the things that scares me about going back to the US. We have a small daughter, so big cities are not as interesting as they once were, and smaller towns in the US can be incredibly homogeneous compared to what I'm used to.
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#37Gen-X according to those ranges (born in 1973) but I disagree with at least some details of these definitions, if not the entire premise behind labeling "generations." For example, the Gen-X stereotype would be some lazy, self-centered kid listening to 90's grunge music, while blaming his parents generation for fucking up the world, while wearing a flannel shirt and ridiculously long sideburns. I feel pretty much not…
Yea...I miss my flannel shirts...
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#38A bug in the polling software: I was able to report myself as part of each generation. Multifaceted I may be, but not multiaged.
(Generation X, btw.)
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#39Annoying - I keep on seeing different standards for X and Y, and never know which one I belong to, because I was born at the end of 1981. I am XY I guess.
'79 - feel more like a Y than an X.
But isn't the idea that we can draw hard-lines around generations the very problem here?
It's these hard-line definitions that enable articles like the WSJ one to exist in the first place.
Change happens gradually and continually, but if you sample it at a frequency of ~20 years then you see all sorts of artifacts.
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#40Annoying - I keep on seeing different standards for X and Y, and never know which one I belong to, because I was born at the end of 1981. I am XY I guess.
Also end of 1981.
I've got a bit of an entrepreneurial spirit (haven't got anything off the ground yet, though), and I'm pretty sure that if I was five years older, I'd be a ex-Porche owner :)