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Anonymous wrote:My relatives born in that window consider themselves boomers. They are the very youngest kids of that generation in our family (children of WW2 vets). The next generation was born 1970+ - definitely Gen-X.

People born in the 60s typically did not have WW2 vets as parents. More like Korean War vets, the ones everybody forgets about.

I was born in 61 and my dad was a WW2, Korean War and Vietnam Vet.

Anonymous wrote:Wow, this thread is messed up and people's memories are warped.

No one was distraught by the Challenger Explosion!

The pill was invented in the mid 1970s, and no one was sexually promiscuous in high school!

The Breakfast Club was not a Gen X movie!

No one knew who Curt Kobain was!

WOW.

I’m born in 1977. Generation X.

I recall watching the challenger space shuttle in third grade with the entire grade. All 3 classes on the one tv that the grade shared. It was a big deal because a teacher was on board. I remember it exploding. I remember kids and teachers crying.

Breakfast club is the quintessential generation x movie although I didn’t see it until I was a freshman in college a decade later. It was nostalgic.

I was not a stoner but I was in late high school when he died. It was a major deal to every stoner that I knew. So much so that I remember that.

Borth control I don’t remember. But I’m a guy. And gay. Birth control was not something on my radar.

Other events I remember:
yitzchak rabin assasination
Rodney king riots
OJ Simpson bronco chase and trial
Berlin Wall
AIDS

Anonymous wrote:67, Gen X. My dh was born in 64 and feels more like Gen X as well. There was always this huge wall of boomers in front of us, scooping the the jobs.

I’m a boomer and 2 years older than your DH. I had a pretty low paid entry level job for 2 years before going to grad school. Worked retail after graduation before even getting that job. Promise it wasn’t me scooping up the good jobs!

Genx and boomer r the same to millennials and younger so no one cares

67, Gen X. My dh was born in 64 and feels more like Gen X as well. There was always this huge wall of boomers in front of us, scooping the the jobs.

Anonymous wrote:Nobody who was alive when Eisenhower was president or entered college in the 1970s can claim Generation X status. 1960 is still full-fledged boomer.

Who cares? Who claims a silly title anyway? Whoever is making these up needs to stop. Alpha generation is by far the stupidest thing some marketer made up and trying to make happen.

The generation who fought in the Vietnam war, who were coming of age during the civil rights movement and the assassinations of King and Kennedy, who protested to end wars and segregation in America, these Americans being identified as boomers is ridiculous. These Americans were mostly born in the 1940s and deserve their own recognition. People born in the 1960s and 1970s didn't do crap.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

Despite what the media would lhave you believe, most generation Xers didn't give a shit about the Challenger.

Gen X'er here, born in 74. Most DEFINITELY cared about the Challenger. Who wrote this? A millennial?

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Anonymous wrote:My relatives born in that window consider themselves boomers. They are the very youngest kids of that generation in our family (children of WW2 vets). The next generation was born 1970+ - definitely Gen-X.

People born in the 60s typically did not have WW2 vets as parents. More like Korean War vets, the ones everybody forgets about.

Agree. I was born in 61 and my grandfather was a WWII vet. My father was 4 and my mother was 2 when Pearl Harbor was bombed - definitely not enlisting at that point.

I was born in 61. My dad was a WWII Marine. Most of my friends had much older siblings and were the third or fourth child. My DH was born in 60 and had a brother 11 years older. His Dad was WWII Navy.

The experiences of those born in the beginning of the Boom were very different than those at the end.

Anonymous wrote:I was born in 1961 and identify more with Gen X because my world view didn’t really begin until closer to the 70’s. As technology has progressed one may have a world view at a younger age now. I read people’s comments and I agree with many that the lines are way off.
Then I start asking myself, why are we allowing ourselves to be defined this way. We are who we are based on our upbringing and locations. This has more to do with what shapes how we identify with the world. Let’s make peace with that.

Ok b00mer

I was born in ‘61 and do not consider myself a boomer nor did my classmates growing up. Demographers Strauss & Howe consider GenX 1961-1980 and the person who invented the term GenX was born in 1961. I don’t really feel like I belong to either generation but I sure don’t relate to older boomers. My friends protested Reagan and the Iraq Wars, when young people accuse boomers of supporting Reagan they are so ignorant of this age group. Technically I am a tail end boomer and this age group did not support Reagan, we were graduating from high school and I was in university and we protested the hell out of him and George Bush, the older one. The “Greatest Generation” was the largest co-host that supported Reagan and Bush 1, the oldest boomers were in their mid 30’s when Reagan was elected & not exactly his target support demographic. I’m sick of ageist generational wars.

I was born in 1961 and identify more with Gen X because my world view didn’t really begin until closer to the 70’s. As technology has progressed one may have a world view at a younger age now. I read people’s comments and I agree with many that the lines are way off.
Then I start asking myself, why are we allowing ourselves to be defined this way. We are who we are based on our upbringing and locations. This has more to do with what shapes how we identify with the world. Let’s make peace with that.

Anonymous wrote:My relatives born in that window consider themselves boomers. They are the very youngest kids of that generation in our family (children of WW2 vets). The next generation was born 1970+ - definitely Gen-X.

People born in the 60s typically did not have WW2 vets as parents. More like Korean War vets, the ones everybody forgets about.

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Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, if you remember the jfk assasination, you are a boomer. After, gen x

Yeah, that's the quintessential boomer question. "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

I think millennials can be identified with a question like this too. If you were in school or college on 9/11, you’re a millennial. What would it be for Gen X? The Challenger?

There really is no defining question like this for Xers. I think it's if they can remember the Reagan/Carter election.

Yes there is. Where were you when you found out Kurt Cobain was dead? I bet a lot of my fellow Gen Xers would agree.

Only if you were white.

Only White people heard about Kurt Cobain? That’s like saying only Black people heard about Tupac’s murder. Cobain was born in ‘67.

I don’t think this compares to JFK.

Anonymous wrote:‘61 here. Technically a Boomer, but I don’t feel like either a Boomer or a Gen Xer. Can’t relate to either.

Same. I think there are many people who don’t identify with any of these made up titles. Who decides that age group anyway?