Generation X? What is it?

Villavic · #1 07-06-2004, 06:19 PM

Tonight finally theyâ€™ll show the Friends finale in WB LatinAmerica (though I already know how it ends).
Yesterday they showed a Friends special at A&E. A columnist said that this show was the favorite of the Generation X. They were caught by this because it showed everything they thought, felt, etc.

Iâ€™m not sure. First of all, since Iâ€™m a guy from the 80s (Iâ€™m 38 so I donâ€™t think I belong to the generation x) , when the 90s arrived, it came with a bunch of boring things.

The 80s were very cool. Kind of commercial, yes, maybe full of material girl, Duran Duran, Culture Club and Ronald Reagan, but cool anyway. I guess in the 90s they tried to deny the superficial things (ok, that was good) and go back to more deep stuff (hard to me to describe in english what I want to say, but Iâ€™ll try my best).

So then (early 90s) I started to hear about that Generation X. To me, this was expressed in two movies and alternative music. When they say alternative music, I immediately think in Counting Crows. Some cool songs, but I canâ€™t listen a whole album. Itâ€™s too boring.

And the two movies: SINGLES, a very cool movie. Maybe because the main characters also missed the 80s. And REALITY BITES. So boring!!! Actually in SouthAmerica it was translated as GeneraciÃ³n X. So everytime I listen about the generation X, I remember Reality Bites and Counting Crows.

And... Friends has little common with Reality Bites and Counting Crows.!!

I my opinion the generation X didnâ€™t have sense of humor, so Friends couldnâ€™t be their symbol.

Itâ€™s my feeling. Maybe the generation x is far more than that. But itâ€™s what I just kew about it.

dissention · #2 07-06-2004, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Villavic

The 80s were very cool. Kind of commercial, yes, maybe full of material girl, Duran Duran, Culture Club and Ronald Reagan, but cool anyway.

Yeah, we all know how cool it was for Reagan to allow the AIDs crisis to become an epidemic and how cool it was to illegaly sell arms to foreign countries.

**mylittledemon** · #3 07-06-2004, 07:07 PM

I always thought Generation X was my generation. Kids born between about 1975-1985 or so. The "Reagan" babies as some people refer to it.

estranged4life · #4 07-06-2004, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by trackaghost

I have to say I hate the show Friends. I know it's not gonna win me any, well, friends, but I always thought it was lousy. I'm thrilled it's over. Sorry.

best friend...I never liked that show either, So don't feel yer the only one who is glad it is gone!

darklinensuit · #5 07-06-2004, 11:15 PM

I know when I was in retail/management the articles all said that Generation X was a difficult market, with little loyalty to products & little consciousness of themselves as a collective group (the way the Baby Boomers are).
I was born in 1970, so I barely made it into Generation X. Whoo-hoo.

- Jake

sara1998 · #6 07-07-2004, 05:02 AM

My understanding is that Gen X'ers were born in the 70's.

Maria

golddustwoman77 · #7 07-07-2004, 08:49 AM

If you were born from 1946 to 1964, you are considered a Baby Boomer.

Generation X are people who were born from 1965 to 1976. That would be me!

People who were born from 1977 to 1994 are considered The Millennials.

Personally, everyone tells me I was born at the wrong time; that I should have been a baby boomer/flower child.

chiliD · #8 07-07-2004, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by estranged4life

best friend...I never liked that show either, So don't feel yer the only one who is glad it is gone!

It's not "gone"

...in fact, now that it is in syndication, you'll be seeing it aired about 20x's more often. And, what's worse, you'll see the same episodes over...and over....and over...and over...and over...

(I loved the show, btw)

wondergirl9847 · #9 07-07-2004, 01:18 PM

I wish I had been born earlier, as I feel like I'm sort of an old soul anyways. I wish I had been a teenager in the 80's, instead of a younger child. But ah well, whattayagannado?

Generation X is supposed to be the lazy a$$ group, right?

That would describe me well.

Villavic · #10 07-07-2004, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

Yeah, we all know how cool it was for Reagan to allow the AIDs crisis to become an epidemic and how cool it was to illegaly sell arms to foreign countries.

Well I didn't mean about politics. the "Reagan era" I mean was something very material (full expressed in the Material Girl song), full of fashion and MTV, where people were interested more in business, business, and business, and the ideals were a bit behind.

I didn't saya Reagan was cool. I said that in spite of some things, the 80s were cool.

darklinensuit · #11 07-07-2004, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by wondergirl9847

I wish I had been born earlier, as I feel like I'm sort of an old soul anyways. I wish I had been a teenager in the 80's, instead of a younger child. But ah well, whattayagannado?

Generation X is supposed to be the lazy a$$ group, right?

That would describe me well.

No. Feneration X is supposedly a cynical group that over-analyzes everything to death (case in point) and is disgruntled that most of them will never be as financially/professionally successful or stable as their parents are (unlike previous generations).

- Jake

darklinensuit · #12 07-07-2004, 11:05 PM

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Originally Posted by golddustwoman77

If you were born from 1946 to 1964, you are considered a Baby Boomer.

Generation X are people who were born from 1965 to 1976. That would be me!

Are you sure? I had read that I would be one of the youngest in Gen-X.
But i never read the book. Did you?

- Jake

golddustwoman77 · #13 07-08-2004, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by darklinensuit

Are you sure? I had read that I would be one of the youngest in Gen-X.
But i never read the book. Did you?

- Jake

No, I just made that up.

I'm just a lowly idiot.

Anyway, I got my information from an economics textbook. This is a highly debated topic. Therefore, just about anywhere you look, you will find different years with different information. These are the years that I have seen repeated most often---in the above textbook and on some sites on the internet.

Villavic · #14 07-08-2004, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by golddustwoman77

Generation X are people who were born from 1965 to 1976. That would be me!

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It hought Gen-x people were the teens at the 90s, but not the guys at her mid to late 20s. So since I was born in 1966, I'm a gen-x!!!

Well, I don't feel like belonging to that. My point was that gen-x people were very 90s, and I consider myself 80s. And 80s were very fun. I did enjoyed the 90s (oh those nights drinking in the beach, and lot of travels, lot of fun), but the charm was lost, 80s had lot of enchant. (BTW, th mac almost dissapeared until 1997)

The Tower · #15 07-08-2004, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by golddustwoman77

If you were born from 1946 to 1964, you are considered a Baby Boomer.

Generation X are people who were born from 1965 to 1976. That would be me!

People who were born from 1977 to 1994 are considered The Millennials.

I heard a report on NPR about this sometime ago. It seems that baby boomers are supposedly only those born from 1946 to 1958. Generation X picks up at 1966 to 1975. Then there's Generation Y, which is 1979 to 1986.

The NPR report was talking about how those born between the baby boomers and Generation X are being labeled "Generation Jones"- a reference to those who grew up in the early 70's and were influenced by the likes of Cheech and Chong and others.