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Originally Posted by Girl Read Write
I'm a Millenial? I always thought I was a part of that fabulous Generation X!!!
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Yeah, those definitions always change. In Douglas Coupland's "Generation X," (1991) which was the book that invented the term, he described Generation X as being those people born in the late '50s or early '60s and who basically lived in the shadow of the baby boomers, but had nothing to do with the baby boomers, even though, technically, they were probably considered baby boomers.
But - sort of consistent with his point, actually - the media took the Gen X label away from these folks and applied it to the first post-baby boomer generation.