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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gen X is usually defined as 1965-1980.[/quote]

I would run it from 1960 to 1980. I was always told that to be a Boomer you had to have been old enough to be drafted for Vietnam if you were male. So, really, Boomers stop a few years before 1960.

People born in the late 50s and early 60s did not have a lot of the shared experiences that marked boomers. 
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Agree. My mom was born in 1957 and she always said she never felt anything in common with boomers. [/quote]

I was born in 78 so I'm Gen X but I don't feel that I have anything in common with someone born in 1957, either. The late 70's is definitely a micro-generation. [/quote]

Agree. I’m 1980 and my mom was 1957. We are definitely not the same generation, but I think most of the generalization is silly anyway. I did read that article about the “Oregon Trail Generation” and that resonated with me the most. But I still think labeling fake generations is silly. They’ve supposedly split the next generation between my two kids born in 2008 and 2011. My kids are growing up in a pretty identical way. But they are a different generation because some website says so?[/quote]

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