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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A generation is like 20-30 years - usually a parent would be one generation and their child would be another generation. 
It's just the way generations work.  I'm an elder millennial born in 1981.  Neither Gen X nor Millenial fit me perfectly.  [/quote]

Agree. I am a young boomer (60) and particularly at this point have little in common with people who are in their late 70's and retired. [/quote]

That’s been a known problem - both my parents are younger boomers (born in the late 50s) so they missed most of the Boomer cultural touchstones - Woodstock, the Vietnam draft, etc. They were in elementary school at the time. But at the same time, they were too old, settled into careers, had little kids, etc. during the peak Gen X era. I think the oldest Millennials and youngest Gen X feel the same way.

I was born in 84 and consider myself firmly Millennial, I don’t identify with Gen X at all. My husband was born in 81 and feels in-between but a lot closer to Millennial. I feel like I still have things in common with people born in the 90s, even up to about 1995 or so, but not really people born after that. So I see why the cutoff for Gen Z was set at 1997-2012 or so. The baby boomers were defined so much by the experiences of the oldest boomers that the youngest members feel left out. [/quote]

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