Now first off, I think Generation X etc is silly because we should start counting back to when people came over the Bering Straights N thousands of years ago. But since this Generation thing is "American European based" I will focus on that.
Actually what I will do is say every generation lasts 18 years, and that baby boomers were generation W, then generation X, then Y. Backing up we get a list of the alphabet like this.
Generation: A 1550 -> 1567 Generation: B 1568 -> 1585 Generation: C 1586 -> 1603 Generation: D 1604 -> 1621 Generation: E 1622 -> 1639 Generation: F 1640 -> 1657 Generation: G 1658 -> 1675 Generation: H 1676 -> 1693 Generation: I 1694 -> 1711 Generation: J 1712 -> 1729 Generation: K 1730 -> 1747 Generation: L 1748 -> 1765 Generation: M 1766 -> 1783 Generation: N 1784 -> 1801 Generation: O 1802 -> 1819 Generation: P 1820 -> 1837 Generation: Q 1838 -> 1855 Generation: R 1856 -> 1873 Generation: S 1874 -> 1891 Generation: T 1892 -> 1909 Generation: U 1910 -> 1927 Generation: V 1928 -> 1945 Generation: W 1946 -> 1963 Generation: X 1964 -> 1981 Generation: Y 1982 -> 1999 Generation: Z 2000 -> 2017
This does work because the "first" generations of children being born in European colonies (that lasted) in North America are known to have been after 1560. Now the question is what to call the generation after 2017? AA?
Anyway.. I think I can get a good nights sleep finally.
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i think this is off! gen X is baby boomers. 70's and 80's babies are more gen Y aren't they?
Kind of. Originally Generation X was the generation of children born after the War, but this got superceded by the "Boomer" name. By the 1970's, the term was used for people born of the Boomer Children.
My major issue was I forgot to put in links on the term.
I would guess X would have been moved along over time but once Y got labeled for the kids born in the late 80's/90's and Millenials as the ones being born now.. we old folk got stuck with it.
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