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Originally Posted by Taualumna
Posters have mentioned that Gen Y doesn't learn/process information the same way as Gen X or Boomers. This is why I asked what one means by "Gen Y." Being a 79er, I don't like being lumped with Gen Y...I'm usually not, as you've said, but there are those who believe that Gen X ended in 1976 rather than '81 or '82...maybe because 76ers turned 18 the year Kurt Cobain died. Who knows.
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I think most people who use Gen X or Gen Y aren't trying to use them with any academic precision or even anythink more than a generic, shorthand meaning. I certainly have never spent a minute wondering where Gen X ended and Gen Y began. Seems like a fruitless question, to me; these generational labels are purely social and articificial contructs anyway.
It also seems to me that people who try to answer the more important questions about how kids are doing in school are going to completely miss the forest for the trees if they're worried about where Gen X ends and Gen Y begins.