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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was born a month shy of 1980.

I think Xennial is the appropriate term here. I definitely feel different than my millenial coworkers who were born 10 years later, like we identify with different things in pop culture trends, etc.. They completely missed out on an 80s to early 90s childhood and all the related trends. They didn't grow up on a diet of 80s kids movies the way I did, don't identify as much with the Brat Pack, or Beverly Hills 90210 or Dawson's Creek. These were significant culture things for which some millenials do not identify. They were young kids when shows like Friends and Seinfeld were enormously popular.

We do both share a love of Harry Potter, but they are actually the generation that grew up with Harry Potter as kids/teens so I discovered their fanbase for it is greater than my own as I read it in my mid 20s.

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Harry Potter came out while we were in high school. It was huge in my school[/quote]

The first HP book was published in 1997 in the UK.

I graduated in '97 and didn't hear of Harry Potter till my senior year in college in 2001ish. I worked at a retail store when home during school breaks - Bed Bath and Beyond - and they actually sold copies of it at the register. I rang up someone who talked about how their kid absolutely loved it and read the back and thought I'd check it out so read it sometime after that.

None of my highschool nor college friends were particularly aware of it either for those of us who graduated highschool in '97, so seems we just missed the boat with that graduation year. I thought I was a big fan until I met my millennial co-workers who are 10 years younger than me, so graduated around 2007-ish and they are much bigger fans than I (though I dressed up and waited in line at midnight for the later books, etc.).[/quote]

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