• CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That makes sense as a reason too. I think the 60s saw an undeniable cultural shift. The 80s is harder to pinpoint and yet I don’t know anyone born in the last years of the 70s that is comfortable with being grouped with Gen X without caveats.

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      1 year ago

      Worth noting that Douglas Copeland who wrote the book Generation X that gives the generation it’s name cut it off in 1974 if I recall correctly.

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      1 year ago

      i’m late gen x (78), that’s more comfortable to me than being lumped with millennials. (the caveat being, i suppose, that we’re dissimilar in some respects from early gen x.)

      internet was not widely available until about the time i started college, and gen x media defined popular culture at that time. i also relate to the notion of being the child of two working parents - the first generation of latchkey kids.

      i tend to see millennials as people who were kids when i was in school - and they grew up with the internet.