Posted by relyo72 on October 06, 19100 at 17:00:41:

In Reply to: Re: Generation X, what is it? posted by Pablo on October 05, 19100 at 08:48:26:

: Generation X (American version): Simply, someone born between approximately 1964 and 1978..would be in their 20's and 30's in 2000..were teens in mid 80's to mid 90's. Some sociologists and lay people make the birth years somewhat older and younger (I've heard as early as 1962 and as late as 1982)..but most agree that people born in the mid 60's to mid 70's are Gen-Xers, while someone turning 18 in or after the year 2000 is definitely a Gen-Yer (millenial??). There is stuff on the web about it too, if interested. NOte that other developed nations define generation X somewhat differently. For example, in South Africa, Generation X is usually defined as someone old enough to remember living under apartheid, but not quite old enough to remember the efforts of the 60's and 70's by black community leaders to abolish it..roughly people born between about 1970 and 1986. Generation X in CHina is defined as someone who was not quite old enough to understand life under Mao, but can remember and may have taken an active role in the Tienamen Square protests and has basically grown up with a quasi-capitalist/quasi-communist systesm (which was instituted around 1977 with the free market openings)..so someone born between about 1968 and 1978.

I agree, but,.....
I always thought that the GEN X'ers followed the baby bommers (1945-65) and were those born up to the the end of the Vietnam WAR in 1975. I've heard that those born during the Carter and the Regan era were considered Generation "Y', AKA Generation "Fast Gorward", which were a generation of kids who grew up on reganomics and technology, with total lack of feeling for the Gen X'ers. Does sound plausible!?!?

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