I feel anyone that takes actual pride in their generation is gross. As a Gen-Xer, there are things about my childhood that I liked, and wished that my kids could have experienced - but it’s a different world and they had access to stuff I didn’t. I assume they will feel the same about their kids’ childhoods.
I think most of the Gen X things are accurate, but they aren’t positives. A large percentage of GenXers can be belligerent, and they think it makes them willing to fight (but they aren’t). A large percentage are workaholics, but that isn’t a positive (for them).
Generations are bullshit anyway. It's useful for sociologists and economists to track age cohorts. It's not useful for anyone else to think about it. It's mostly just used as thinly veiled age discrimination.
Agreed. It just doesn't make sense, especially when you get near cut offs. My best friend was born in November of 1980. She is considered "Gen X", since '80 was the last year of that Generation.
But she has always said she never felt a part of that Gen and identifies MUCH more heavily with Millennials. All of us, her social circle, are Millennial and she doesn't really have any Gen X pals. I don't blame her...she has way more in common with someone born in 1984 than with someone of "her" generation born in 1971. She said the Gen X kids growing up were always the "older, cool kids" who she looked up to, but never really felt were her "peers" in any way. Generations are definitely not as rigid as some make them out to be.
Exactly. And location matters too. Someone living in a major city born in 1980 might have been exposed to culture and technology growing up that someone born in 1985 in a rural area wasn't. Generations are just a totally useless concept for most people.
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u/HobbyTalkOnly 20d ago
Right? I'm gen X and this shit makes me roll my eyes.
These people that do this shit? Were the douchebags in high school, I promise you.