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In reply to the discussion: I'm a Gen-Xer, and this is the way I've seen the generations explained. Has it changed? [View all]crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)70. Gen Z is the post 9/11 kids
Either the ones who were born after then or who were young children when it happened. The oldest of them are between 22-24 depending on how you define them (1994-1995 would probably be my cutoff for millennials).
Some millennials are in their 30s now. Lumping 18 year old voter turnout with them is not apples to apples.
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I'm a Gen-Xer, and this is the way I've seen the generations explained. Has it changed? [View all]
Coventina
Nov 2018
OP
Well... it's something that has been around even before they started using the "Boomer" term
BumRushDaShow
Nov 2018
#19
The trouble with the notion of these "generations" is there are plently of people born between them.
FSogol
Nov 2018
#8
Exactly. I would be pegged Boomer but was a baby and little kid thru out the free love & drug phase
Wintryjade
Nov 2018
#17
It probably hasn't happened yet. But that might be a function of the current age.
jpljr77
Nov 2018
#77
Hmm, what's the event for Gen X then? The one where you remember what you were doing at the time
Zing Zing Zingbah
Nov 2018
#72
That seems to indicate that the definitions are for shrinking time slots rather than 20 year
Coventina
Nov 2018
#13
Let's not forget the War Babies, the Silent Generation (mine), the Greatest Generation.
Thirties Child
Nov 2018
#24
I always thought 1980 was the cutoff for Gen X and 2000 for the millennial cutoff.
jpljr77
Nov 2018
#39
just wanted to tuck this in here as well (small discussion on the post iGen/Gen Z name
Celerity
Nov 2018
#84
Gen X'ers are overall the most right-wing of the generations, followed by Boomers.
TSheehan
Dec 2018
#88