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I'd add: Too busy teaching our parents how to use a smartphone, while simultaneously trying to pry it from our kid's cold, dead hands.
Yeah, too busy working for a livin', while caring for aging parents and growing kids.
Exactly.
It's a weird dichotomy.
I got my mom writing out texts to me but forgetting to push the "send" button cuz I guess that's too hard. Five days later she'll realize it and then I get the mundane announcement.
Then at my brother's house I got my 18-year-old niece carrying on full-blown conversations with Alexa all day long.
I mean...ask a fellow human or just shut up for five minutes.
Damn.
But our (Gen X) m.o. is to just go with the flow. Not stir the pot. Keep on workin'. It's our perfection of irony and sarcasm that no other generation has which allowed us to sustain!
The only one on that list I recognize is new wave. I am a Gen Xer and have no idea what the rest are. I thought we all listened to Bob Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. I must have missed something lol
There was just so much different types of music - I gravitated towards alternative and dance. Here's just some radio snapshots of dance music fashioned/created by GenX
I wasn’t talking about Conservatives as in Republican, I was talking about conservative in its truest definition - as in acceptance (not love) of the status quo or lot in life (also known as apathy). Gen X’ers are way less rebellious than we Boomers or the Millennials.
Okay I can get with this is a general way. There were definitely some protests (I remember apartheid being a big cause in college) but nothing like the current generation. And as cynical as we were/are, we weren't trying to change the basic structures of society except for maybe some social mores.
I'm technically a millennial but on the older side, my girlfriend is firmly Gen X and love so much about her, but thinking about it, it seems on the likes of forums boomers and millennials are the generations talked about 95% of the time. Now obviously many Gen X have certainly gone on to accomplish great things, my girlfriend included, but to me it kind of seems as if Gen X is treated like some kind of red-headed step child.
Why do you think they get so little attention in comparison? And for other Gen X people, were you or others you knew really called "slackers"?
I'm born in 79, and when I was growing up as a kid in the 80s, my generation was not considered Gen-X. That was to have ended around 1975 or so. The reason being is our childhood in the 80s was considered to be more sunny than the brooding, stagflation, high crime, oil shortage misery of the 70s. In the 80s, the advances in videogames, computer (real Oregon Generation getting those Macs in school as a 6 year old), Michael Jackson and MTV being a big part of our earliest memories, Reagan and Optimism.
It was only in more recent times, that these institutions that define them just extended that Gen X definition to around 1980 or so. More recently, the term 'Xennial', generally classified as born between 1977-1983 (or 1985) has been popularized. I fully agree with the way it's described and how it makes us different than millennials and Gen-Xers, but can relate to both.
A microgeneration stuck between Generation X and Millennials has gained attention in recent years as some people don't feel a connection to either age group.
The "Xennials" are those born on the cusp of when Gen X-ers and Millennials meet, and therefore experienced world events, and especially technology, in unique ways particular to their age.
According to Pew Research, members of Generation X were born between 1965 and 1980 and Millennials were born between 1981 and 1996. Xennials, though, were born some time between 1977 and 1983.
Merriam Webster flagged "Xennial" as one of its "Words We're Watching" in 2017, meaning it's being increasingly used but hasn't met the dictionary's criteria for entry.
"Generational labels began to take off with the Baby Boomers—those born in postwar America in a prospering, increasingly suburban environment. Then there was Generation X, the brooding, alt-rock-consuming cluster of babies. They were followed by the Millennials, those coming of age around 2000 and who easily adapted to the digital revolution.
Those broad strokes may now include the Xennials, a specific "micro-generation" of babies born between 1977 and 1983 who grew up with some of the basic tenets of pre-digital technology—landline phones, broadcast television, and handwritten letters—who then adapted to social media in their 20s."
Pew's new guidelines do alter a few others that came before. Some have put the Millennial generation from 1982-2004 (easily making it the longest generation), while others would have wanted to end it in the early '90s.
In establishing these guidelines, it also looks like the “Xennial” has been wiped from existence. This is a micro-generation that encompassed those born between 1977 and 1983—they identified themselves as people who grew up in a pre-digital world and later adapted to today’s technology. If this includes you, you’re now either a late-term Gen X’er or a grizzled veteran of the Millennial clan.
I can’t speak for anyone else, but becoming an adult right when the WWW blew up internationally gave me a perspective of how to use it wisely without becoming enamored with (or a slave to) the technology and devices themselves. We’re probably going to be the last generation to grow up with a sense of privacy and not having our every move broadcast to the world whether we want it or not.
Okay I can get with this is a general way. There were definitely some protests (I remember apartheid being a big cause in college) but nothing like the current generation.
I don't think it has changed. I remember the anti-G20 and anti-WTO protests, with tens of thousands Gen-X people took to the streets with the National Guard trying to restore order.
Are there really many protests at colleges right now?
Or do some colleges have lots of protests -- no matter the time period?
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