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I was born in 79 and I consider myself a "young" Gen-X.
Some sources say I am a millenial, but I don't find I have much in common with the typical description of a millenial. Are they Gen-Y?
ETA: I see that Gen Y is the same as millenial. FWIW, I don't consider myself a millenial because I didn't grow up with technology in my hand. I played outside. I didn't have a video game until I was around 12 whereas millenials I know had them from the cradle it seems. I feel Gen X is the last of the tech-take-over population of America. We skim the surface of both the Boomers and the Millenials in this regard and we don't get as much attention lol. I like it that way FWIW. I do feel that Gen-X is more hands on still and is more comfortable both with and without our technological advancements. I feel in many ways I am becoming an "old fogey" of sorts since I worry now about how much technology has taken over our kid's lives. I have a teen and it is crazy how easy it is now for kids to get porn and do stupid teen stuff on the internet and this sort of thing wasn't something our parents for the most part had to worry about and that I feel Millenials, with younger kids, will be able to better handle this part of parenting due to being more heavily entrenched in technology themselves.
You have described me to a tee. we must be the same person
There's always going to be some overlap because culture doesn't change with the snap of a finger. Cultural generations like this are based on the cultural and political influential differences between those generations - but like I say, these things don't change instantaneously so of course it's difficult, if not impossible, to draw a hard line - the lines are always going to be blurred. The Baby Boomer generation is the only generation you can really put more definitive lines on because the actual "boom" happened starting in 1946 and birth rates began to decline after 1957, but of course the generation usually includes those born in the late 50s/early 60s too. So the cut off point is still blurred but the starting point is definite. Later generations don't have that benefit of a definitive starting point.
Wikipedia says Gen X begins in the "early 1960s" and ends in the "early 1980s", while Gen Y starts in the "early 1980s" and ends somewhere in the "early 2000s". I was born in the early 80s so I've never really been sure which generation I fall into either. I tend to identify more with Gen X though because I have an older brother born in the late 70s, but no younger siblings - plus, my parents were Baby Boomers born in the early to mid 50s and I was under the impression that the children of Baby Boomers are usually considered Gen X. I thought that's typically how it's supposed to go: Gen X are the children of Baby Boomers, and Gen Y are the children of Gen X. The children of Gen Y are Generation Z. Of course with people having children later and later in life, this isn't always the case (I am Gen X because my parents are Baby Boomers but I am only just now trying to have kids, who will be firmly Gen Z, skipping Gen Y), but I was under the impression that was the general assumption.
So for someone born in 1975, I would definitely say you're Gen X. Your parents were probably Baby Boomers born in the late 40s or 50s, right?
There's always going to be some overlap because culture doesn't change with the snap of a finger. Cultural generations like this are based on the cultural and political influential differences between those generations - but like I say, these things don't change instantaneously so of course it's difficult, if not impossible, to draw a hard line - the lines are always going to be blurred. The Baby Boomer generation is the only generation you can really put more definitive lines on because the actual "boom" happened starting in 1946 and birth rates began to decline after 1957, but of course the generation usually includes those born in the late 50s/early 60s too. So the cut off point is still blurred but the starting point is definite. Later generations don't have that benefit of a definitive starting point.
Wikipedia says Gen X begins in the "early 1960s" and ends in the "early 1980s", while Gen Y starts in the "early 1980s" and ends somewhere in the "early 2000s". I was born in the early 80s so I've never really been sure which generation I fall into either. I tend to identify more with Gen X though because I have an older brother born in the late 70s, but no younger siblings - plus, my parents were Baby Boomers born in the early to mid 50s and I was under the impression that the children of Baby Boomers are usually considered Gen X. I thought that's typically how it's supposed to go: Gen X are the children of Baby Boomers, and Gen Y are the children of Gen X. The children of Gen Y are Generation Z. Of course with people having children later and later in life, this isn't always the case (I am Gen X because my parents are Baby Boomers but I am only just now trying to have kids, who will be firmly Gen Z, skipping Gen Y), but I was under the impression that was the general assumption.
So for someone born in 1975, I would definitely say you're Gen X. Your parents were probably Baby Boomers born in the late 40s or 50s, right?
That's interesting in regards to the Boomers being parents to Gen X and Gen X to Gen Y.
I have younger brothers who are 10 and 11 years younger than I am and they are millenials/Gen Y but our parents are young Boomers (born 1961-1963).
That's interesting in regards to the Boomers being parents to Gen X and Gen X to Gen Y.
I have younger brothers who are 10 and 11 years younger than I am and they are millenials/Gen Y but our parents are young Boomers (born 1961-1963).
Yeah, like I say, it doesn't always work that way. But since your parents were born in the early 60s, they could also be considered Gen X themselves. They're in that overlap area of the early 60s like I am in the early 80s for Gen X/Y.
In genealogy terms (since this is the genealogy forum), the "standard" or average measure of a generation is usually 25 years (such as if you're estimating the amount of generations one would normally have between now and colonial times, you'd count one generation per 25 years). Cultural generations seem to be roughly based on that too. Gen X is early 1960s to early 1980s while Gen Y starts in the early 80s and ends in the early 2000s.... that's about a 20-25 year range for each generation and it's based on the idea that this is when people typically start having children - thus every 20-25 years there's a new generation, the children of the previous generation. But like I say, with more people having children later in life, we're going to see more irregularities, or bigger generational ranges.
Yeah, my mom got started early and ended late lol.
She was a teen mom and later on got married in her mid 20s and had more kids. I was born when she was 17 and my older brother when she was 16.
FWIW, my dad is a 1950s Baby Boomer. He is 7 years older than my mom and I used to joke (but seriously) with my grandmother that she should have pressed charges on him for being with my mom when she was only 15 years old. He says (and mom admits) though that she lied about her age and he didn't know she was so young until his younger sisters (my aunts) told him that she was their age.
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