The baby boomers weren't some random generation picked by years. There was a huge population explosion during those years, a "baby boom". The pill came out in 1960 and took a few years to get popular, so by 1964/65, the number of babies being born dropped significantly. My brother was born in 1962, me in 1965. His high school class had over 1100 kids in it. Mine had just over 700 and the class behind me dropped to 400 or so! HUGE decreases in the number of babies.

I think the other generational labels are just silly, a way for the press to stereotype people. Baby boomers are baby boomers because a whole bunch of them were born at once (and therefore will be retiring at once!).

Dee

but but butbutbutbutbutbut i don't have a cultural identity w/out a label, do i?

someone let me know, for christ's sake

You my dear are part of the BTSG. The Big Truck Signature Generation. Sort of like when Prince had the NPG except without all the auxiliary sluts and buttless pants.

I have no accurate this stuff is, but this page was interesting and discusses what a lot of you have mentioned.

http://users.metro2000.net/~stabbott/genxintro.htm

So why do they call the 1982 - whatever group the "Millenial Generation" or the technical generation or whatever? What supposedly defines us?

i would wear purple leather pants if it would increase the number of bad-hair-wearing ("high ponytails" ahoy!) sluts in my midst - this hairy ass is in the air!

"then, in the morning . . . prince made us pancakes."

I swear to god people paint all of you (I'm not one by 2 years) with a brush that goes something like this

* high organized planned childhood
* very high amounts of parental intervention at the univesrity level
* very high sense of duty
* internet dependant
* practical practical practical
* you do not fear authority, you only fear the concequences of your actions (ie, you're only scared if you get caught)

All of this stuff is huge at my university right now in the steps were have taken towards residence life and first year programming (yes, even before double cohort).

blah blah blah I don't know if I believe half this stuff.

Re: Re: Re: For those of us born between 1977-1981 (or so)
 

I was born in 1975. Am I Gen X or Gen Y? I'm having an identity crisis now... :p

Because most people born in 1982 graduated high school in 2000.

I am a reject of the 70's and a child of the 80's :D I was born in 79 lol

What about me? I'm younger than all you guys...'85. All my siblings are younger than me, '87, '94, '95, 2000! What do you call us younguns? I'm not really feeling that Millenium stuff because my baby sister was born when I was a junior in high school...What happened to young adult, middle aged? Have they went out of style or what?:p

My parents were baby boom children and as their offspring, I though my sister andf I were part of the baby boom echo.

i guess i'm part of the millenial generation... born in 1982 and graduated in 2000.

it's funny cuz my boss (who's mid-late thirties) told me that we're the same generation. :eek: nice to know i'm not, now! :D

Thank you! I was in 10th grade when he died. I relate A LOT more to the Gen X'rs. I'm on the cusp, 1976.

I never really listened to Nirvana, but I was 14 and in Grade 9 when he died. It was also the same year that the movie Reality Bites came out. My entire grade was in Ottawa on a Canadian History trip that year and most of us saw that it on movie night :)