I am 38 and I think i am part of 'generation x" does anyone know how they classify the generations and which one are you in?
lots of people refer to gen x as being born between '65 and '76 i believe i'm on hte tail end of hte MTV generation to some people haha...but can also be gen y...but really, its just social theorists making up demographics to place people into...which i dont' fully buy into
Douglas Coupland pretty much brought the term Generation X, in his same-titled collection of short stories, to popular use.. the stories mostly deal with teens coming of age and finding much dissillusionment in early 80's america.... So i've always pretty much classed it as the generation of late 60's/early 70's.. the hippies kids basically
My parents may have been hippies(I've seen some photos of my mum) but by the time I was born in 74 they sure s hell didn't seem like it.
dave's parents were major hippies. tent living, pot smoking, vagrant kids bathing their child in a bucket next to a campfire. but then, something happened, and it was all about the cash and how to best entertain themselves while leaving their kids at grandmas. though dave's mother did eventually get a degree in nursing and start a new life for herself, she still struggles with "falling in love" repeatedly, marrying and divorcing. at the first hint of trouble, she's out the door. sounds like a lot of her generation.
I was born in 69 and remember zoom, electric company, muppet show, nanu nanu, and soo many funny things...i wonder if that is where the generation gap comes from...the things we remember growing up with. cable boxes with buttons, typewriters, 8 tracks and vinyl, rainbow suspenders....
Yeah my parents were hippies. My mom was the manager of a head shop and my dad smoked mad weed, ate acid, and hitchhiked all over places like colorado. Then something happened and they got brainwashed and materialistic. Then their son turned out to be a hippie, so Ive returned them to their roots some basically. And my generation is generation fuck you.
i remember the first pc i used, it was all dos based and internet when it first came out was all text, no pics, images... how funny! Phones always had the long coil cord and when cordless came out, it was a miracle! sooo many things that made the debut while i was growing up!!
my daughter loves this show called Yo Gabba Gabba! and pretty freaky. but for a children's music program, the music is actually really good. but on the show they repeatedly use old pitfall graphics, and THAT takes me right back.
Generation X From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Ten things you didn't know about Wikipedia •Jump to: navigation, search For other uses of the word, see Generation X (disambiguation). Generation X is a term used to describe generations in many countries around the world. The exact demographic boundaries of Generation X are not well defined, depending on who is using the term, where and when. The term is used in demography, the social sciences, and marketing, though it is most often used in popular culture. The generation's influence over pop culture began in the 1980s and may have peaked in the 1990s. One of the defining factors of Generation X is the transitions resulting from the decline of colonial imperialism to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. Another more prevalent factor is a bell curve bottoming out in American births from 1964 through 1979, after the American Baby Boom from 1946 to 1963. A small, often "invisible generation" in the wake of the socially-reconstructing Baby Boomers, those born in the U.S. between 1964 and 1979 received the "X" tag for lack of a defining social identity. As young adults, Generation X drew media attention in the late 1980s and early 1990s, gaining a stereotypical reputation as apathetic, cynical, disaffected, streetwise loners and slackers. As Generation Xers have now become American parents, however, their media persona is gradually becoming more that of protective security moms and dads in a post 9/11 world. In addition, Generation X is noted as one of the most entrepreneurial and tech-friendly generations in American history, as they've driven a majority of the Internet's growth and ingenuity from day one. Amazon, Google, Yahoo, MySpace, Dell, and countless other billion-dollar tech companies were founded by American Gen Xers. Even Wikipedia itself was founded by Gen Xers Generation Y From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Learn more about using Wikipedia for research •Jump to: navigation, search This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the talk page for details. This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please improve this article if you can. Look up Generation Y in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.Generation Y or Echo boomers are terms that designate a cohort of people born immediately after "Generation X." It is one of several terms (including The Millennials and the The Internet Generation) used to describe the same group. There is much dispute as to the exact range of birth years that constitutes "Generation Y" and whether this term is specific to North America, the Anglophone world, or people worldwide. The only consensus, by way of its relation to the term "Generation X," is that those born in Generation Y must follow Generation X. Many publications in academic, demographic, business, and governmental sources have used their own specific parameters for who constitutes Generation Y. There is no specific accepted definition thus far. The use of the term "Generation Y" is also controversial and synonyms are often used in discourse or in published works that refer to this group. As the term "Generation X" was coined primarily to describe the post Baby Boomer generation in the United States and Canada, some people use "Generation Y" only to refer to Americans, Canadians, and other Anglophone people who were born after Generation X. Dates that define a person belonging to Generation X have also been disputed. Others have suggested that such regional restrictions of use are unnecessary in the ever globalizing world. Generations are not defined by formal process, but rather by demographers, the media, popular culture, market researchers, and by members of the generation themselves. For instance, while the periodical American Demographics typically uses 1976 to demarcate the start of Generation Y, the demographers Howe and Strauss have consistently used "the High School class of 2000", or those born in 1982 as their demarcation. While many possible years are used as the endpoint of Generation Y, the term is almost never applied to current infants, who are part of a possibly as yet unnamed generation. Because of the flexible nature of such demographic terms, two people of the same birth year can identify as either Generation X, Y, or something that follows Y, such as the New Silent Generation and neither is wrong. Because the term Generation Y suggests "following Generation X", and because the term Generation X was originally coined as a pejorative term (citation needed!), use of the term Generation Y is controversial. Numerous terms (see below) have been coined as alternatives to Generation Y, or to describe subjects of the cohort. "Millennials" is a very commonly used alternative by the popular press in the United States. If the years 1978-2000 are used, as is common in market research, then the size of Generation Y in the United States is approximately 76 million.[1] Underage drinking and illicit drug use is prevalent among high school and college age members of Generation Y. In urban areas, rave culture was known for its influence on Ecstasy usage. Marijuana, methamphetamine, cocaine, and inhalants seem to be most favored.[5] Drug usage prevails even in spite of (and, in some cases, because of) most Gen Y members undergoing programs such as D.A.R.E. during childhood.[6] However, statistically, today's teens are less likely to smoke, drink, do illegal drugs, get pregnant, commit a crime, or drop out of school than their parents in the 1970s.[7] The illegal use of legal prescription medications is an emerging trend of Generation Y, including the appearance of "Pharming parties" where youths trade, share, and try each other's prescription medications.[8] Childhood obesity is another health problem that has plagued Generation Y, and X to a lesser extent before them. In response, many local school boards have started to remove junk food from school cafeterias in an effort to reverse this trend.[citation needed] Notably, Generation X is the first generation to have junk food readily available in schools, except in Canada with junk or overly processed foods being commonplace for Generation Y. In Victoria, Australia, there are laws that restrict the purchase of junk food at canteens in government schools to eight times a year. Planning of communities has added to this problem, as many parents of Generation Y have a commonality of moving to sprawling suburban areas with poor mass transportation and few places to walk. [9] Members of this generation are facing higher costs for higher education than previous generations.[10] As members of Generation Y in the United States begin to enter colleges and universities in large numbers, some of their Baby Boomer parents are becoming helicopter parents. Many college advisors and administrators worry that this could have a negative effect on Generation Y's social progress, ego, and developing maturity.[11] Many Gen Yers show a trend of interest in retro-oriented culture and the potential to revive it. Most commonly is that of music trends, which show a rise in popularity of classic rock-styled bands such as Wolfmother and The White Stripes in urban cultures. Much of the rise in popularity is thought to be of Generation X's influence; i.e. youth being exposed as children to bands of the past generations such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Simon & Garfunkel, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Pink Floyd, the Grateful Dead, Allman Brothers, and Bob Dylan. [citation needed] Members of Generation Y were found to be "demanding, impatient and bad at communicating" by a 2007 survey of business owners in Australia. The survey found that almost 70% of those surveyed found their Generation Y workers to be dissatisfying, with poor spelling and grammar and no understanding of appropriate corporate behaviours. However the survey also showed most employers praised the energy and charisma of their Generation Y workers. [12]
i must have been a poor child. all the things that people 10-15 years older than me remember growing up are the things i had too...
