05-09-2019, 09:25 PM
Well broken clocks are right twice a day, and Eric stumbled on being correct here. The proposed alternative for X makes no sense. Being a 79 Xer I can tell you that there is a marked difference between my cousins ten years older than myself (I'm more civic leaning but not a civic for sure) and my 1984 Sister.
Demographic factors are not important to generation, what matters is the socio-historical context of a generation's childhood and their coming of age.
The demarcation line between Boom and X certainly is if one was old enough to find the Hippy Movement and etc to be "exciting" "new" and "fun" or "OMG my older siblings/cousins (adults generally) are all going crazy". I'd argue that the demarcation line between X and Millies is around the Challenger disaster. Xers viewed it as proof the world really was going to shit. Millies shouldn't really remember it at all.
Demographic factors are not important to generation, what matters is the socio-historical context of a generation's childhood and their coming of age.
The demarcation line between Boom and X certainly is if one was old enough to find the Hippy Movement and etc to be "exciting" "new" and "fun" or "OMG my older siblings/cousins (adults generally) are all going crazy". I'd argue that the demarcation line between X and Millies is around the Challenger disaster. Xers viewed it as proof the world really was going to shit. Millies shouldn't really remember it at all.
It really is all mathematics.
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