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Your dates are incorrect, when corresponding to the generations. I have never seen any where that someone born in 1980 is to be considered a millennial.
Gen X and Millennials Overlap. Anyone born between 1982-1984 are considered part of both generations. I fall in there, as do many of my friends...and I completely agree with the overlapping.
Millennial here. I always feel bad for Xers. They got the smallest era. What happened to Gen Y?
Generation X for me.
Eevee, I might be mistaken but I believe that Generation X used to include more up of the 1980s, up to 1984 I believe. Not sure who decided to change it.
Also, nothing happened to Generation Y - it is just more common to call them the Millennials. The Millennials sounds like a good name for a rock band LOL.
There needs to be a category for around 1960 (maybe 1955-1965) who are not really "Baby Boomers" any more or "Generation X" yet... Richard Hell's "Blank Generation".
1963 boomer although I relate more to the X generation.
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Originally Posted by Jellybean50
Same here, even tho i'm 1959.
I am not surprised because you guys were little kids in the 1960s so you missed some of the things that the 1960s was famous for - at least for teens/young adults. Like the counter culture, "free love" and "flower power". I think that was more for older baby boomers and the silent generation, and maybe even a few from the GI generation.
People like Bernie Sanders (1941), Jessie Jackson (1941), Ralph Nader (1934), and Martin Luther King (1929) are from the Silent Generation who were young adults in the 1960s. Bobby Kennedy (1925) and his older brother JFK (1917) were from the GI Generation and were early middle age in the 1960s.
GI: born 1900-1924
Famous people: Christopher Lee.
Silent Generation: born 1925-1945
Famous people: Bob Marley, John McCain, Bernie Sanders, and Davy Jones.
Baby Boomers: born 1946-1964
Famous people: Bill Clinton, Barrack Obama, Freddie Mercury, Johnny Depp.
Generation X: born 1965-1980
Famous people: Robert Downy Jr, Ben Stiller, Orlando Bloom, Chris Pratt, Ted Cruz.
Millennials: born 1981-2000
Famous people: Beyonce, Mark Zuckerberg, Justin Bieber, Kylie Jenner, Jaden Smith.
Generation Z: born 2001-present
Famous people: Alana Thompson, MattyB, Millie Bobby Brown.
Most of these seem to be 'infamous people'. No one in my 'generation' or really any of them on that list I would want to be associated with at any rate. Couldn't you have picked people who at least deserved to be 'famous' on true merit, not for crooked politics, showing skin, doing drugs, being pretty, or just making money?
How come generation x only gets 15 years? All the others have right at 20 years.
I think it has it's pros and cons. A lot of young gen X-ers would be millenials and you know how horrible we millenials are.
1984 - Millennial. I am still trying to accept that a person who grew up with Facebook being a thing in k5 and one who had to learn the Soviet Union for a test one year, and then about the break up the next year...are in the same generation.
Cool thread! I see my age group is the majority here.
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What happened to Gen Y?
