re: Best generation besides the “Greatest Generation” debate solved

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Start to own it.... your child hood is the same as the genXers...

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that could be accurate.


Among older millennials, those born 1981–1988, Pew Research found that 43% personally identified as members of the older demographic cohort, Generation X, while only 35% identified as millennials. Among younger millennials (born 1989–1997), generational identity was not much stronger, with only 45% personally identifying as millennials. It was also found that millennials chose most often to define themselves with more negative terms such as self-absorbed, wasteful, or greedy.

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but your adult hood isnt.

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other than understanding technology, i struggle to find much i identify with on that regard. left home at 19, graduated without student debt (parents didn't pay for it,) got married at 21, started off conservative and got more conservative as i got older, have never had a job for less than 4 years, i hate all music after about 2000, etc.

my sister is 4 years older than me and is in student loan debt (my parents paid for half of her school,) lived at home till she was 28, is a bernie progressive, and likes kpop and anime. both came from the same loins and had the same childhood.

obviously the year you are born doesn't put you into a category.

i'm not pretending i'm not in the millennial age range, but i don't have most of those characteristics.

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Those coming after Gen X were soft as frick starting with you grunge frickers who ruined the rock and roll party

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Grunge was straight Gen X, the tail end, but still. That was big around 92-94. An 18 yo in 92 was born in 1974.

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yall wouldnt be so bad if yall move out from your moms basement. Come enjoy the party with the Millennials.

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The reality is it is the opposite of this, but you do you, my guy.

Dang bro you make your mom live in your basement?

I'm wearing a flannel shirt and overalls. And a flannel Stormy Kromer hat (Elmer the Fudd style hat).

and I thought we couldn't come up with any dumber thread subjects, sheesh

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It comes down to the individual as always. And the individual is outnumbered regardless of generation. How many fought in Vietnam vs didn't? Iraq? Afghanistan? See what I'm getting at

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I understand exactly what you’re saying. But you seem to be changing the subject and aim of what I said. My comments are regarding the dominant features of the majority of Gen X. Individually, and outside of my “bubble”, I know that there are other “bubbles” (like maybe the one you see) where there are super lib and woke X’ers. And there are a lot of bubbles that way. But what Im saying is in my travel, experience, business endeavors, and contact, observance, and conversation through the years with people from my generation who live in a myriad of those “bubbles”. What I said are, in my and most people’s opinion, the dominant- not only- features of my generation. And anytime someone talks about an entire generation, it’s ALWAYS got to be from a 30,000 ft view and in generalities, or they aren’t being intellectually honest in the conversation. That’s what I’m getting at, and should be automatically inferred when speaking generationally.

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I feel like on the personal level it's less of an age/generation thing and more of personal circumstance. A kid born in 2000 with a shitty computer running XP in 2010 because their family is poor is going to know more than a kid born in 1995 who jumps on Vista at age 12 without having to do any leg work.

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Pretty good point.

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81 checking in. Have never heard of Xennials before but frick it let’s ride. Enjoy your limp wristed “reimagined” version of this kids.

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