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Before 1970- Gen-X
Before 1980- Pepsi Generation
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i suppose i'd rather be lumped in with todays teenage idiots (not all of ya but there are more than there were when i was in highschool it seems) than the pepsi generation... jebus i hate pepsi.
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Originally posted by Speed Demon:
i suppose i'd rather be lumped in with todays teenage idiots (not all of ya but there are more than there were when i was in highschool it seems) than the pepsi generation... jebus i hate pepsi.
Yea those punk teenagers now-a-days. Gosh Darnet. If only it was 30 years ago when there was no such thing as gays, drugs or sex.
Actually i'm being very very sarcastic because that seems to be the comment from the stereotypical older person.
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Originally posted by shonuff:
Weird I never thought I was part of generation X. 
Hell, due to my age and birth year, I would be classified GENERATION X, but you know something, I don't get along with the generation X ppl that well. With my upbringing, I have more of a Baby Boomer state of mind. I am only 31, but I don't listen to the music of "my generation", I am more into disco and classic rock. Let's put it this way, most of Generation X would ask what the hell I was listening too, and if they DID know the song, it's because it' been used by Puff Daddy, excuse me, P. Diddy, or it was in Coyote Ugly or some other movie, and it's more of a joke song to them. I was also taught to have more respect for ppl than what I have seen from generation X. I don't dress like them either.
I guess being raised by my military father and my grandparents in my formative years has made me like more of the things THEY like. I love big band and swing music. If I listen to country music, it's late 70s country. I am a jeans and tshirt kind of gal. I know how to work on cars a bit, and I can shoot a gun real nice.
Most gals my age can't even change their tires, let alone give a car a tune up. They like thongs, I refuse to wear something that hangs in my butt crack. Anyway, I see myself in the older generation. I am a child of the 80s as well, but I don't consider myself generation X at all.
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The idea of defining "generations" came from the baby boom following WW2. The baby boom is genrally defined as the 20 year period 1945-1964. From the the start of the rise in births following WW2 to the drop back below 4 million (IRRC) births annually. After that there have been attempts to define and name the following generations (and previous generations), more or less 20 years each. The genration following the baby boom was first called the baby bust and then later called Gen X. So it followed that the next one would be called Gen Y. Early writings sometimes called it the baby echo - from the peak years of the baby boom, 1958-1963, now having children).
I used to do a lot of work on generational preferences for churches. From what I can see, the only difference between one generation and the next worth seriouly considering as a whole was the one between the "builders" (born 1925-1944) and the boomers (45-64). Since then the generations have largely gone back to a more steady evolution.
Using the above model:
Builder: born 1925-1944
Boomer: born 1945-1964
Gen X: born 1965-1984
Gen Y: born 1985-2004
Gen ?: born 2005-2024
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Generation Y, as in "Why bother" Is that how they got their tag?
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Originally posted by MrsFurby72:
Originally posted by shonuff:
Weird I never thought I was part of generation X.
Hell, due to my age and birth year, I would be classified GENERATION X, but you know something, I don't get along with the generation X ppl that well. With my upbringing, I have more of a Baby Boomer state of mind. I am only 31, but I don't listen to the music of "my generation", I am more into disco and classic rock. Let's put it this way, most of Generation X would ask what the hell I was listening too, and if they DID know the song, it's because it' been used by Puff Daddy, excuse me, P. Diddy, or it was in Coyote Ugly or some other movie, and it's more of a joke song to them. I was also taught to have more respect for ppl than what I have seen from generation X. I don't dress like them either.
I guess being raised by my military father and my grandparents in my formative years has made me like more of the things THEY like. I love big band and swing music. If I listen to country music, it's late 70s country. I am a jeans and tshirt kind of gal. I know how to work on cars a bit, and I can shoot a gun real nice.
Most gals my age can't even change their tires, let alone give a car a tune up. They like thongs, I refuse to wear something that hangs in my butt crack. Anyway, I see myself in the older generation. I am a child of the 80s as well, but I don't consider myself generation X at all.
I'm a 'tweener. The Boomer/X cuttoff year is different, depending on who publishes it, and the problem is that most people on the borderline don't feel completely comfortable with either group. Marketers are starting to recognize the '64 to '68 (or something like that) people as a distinct market.
Oh yeah, I like just about all music 'cept country. Just can't take that corny stuff, unless it's Johnny Cash. Goes well with whiskey.
http://www.tweeners.org/usatoday.htm
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Originally posted by 1314:
From what I found, Generation X are those born between 1966-1983. Generation Y from 1984-present.
Originally posted by Mushu:
Before 1970- Gen-X
Before 1980- Pepsi Generation
Before 1990- Gen-Y
Originally posted by revrev:
Gen X: born 1965-1984
Gen Y: born 1985-2004
well, which am i????
i guess i have 2 votes for me being generation y for now, so i'll go with it.
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