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- From: haycock@marley.think.com (Anne Haycock)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.words-l
- Subject: Re: X or 13? You decide! (was Re: Now for something..)
- Date: 22 Dec 92 08:54:16
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- In-reply-to: TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU's message of 21 Dec 92 20:54:00 GMT
-
- Neal cites:
-
- The _Atlantic_ article (cover story in Vol 270, No 6, December 1992)
- defines Boomers as the 1943-1960 birth cohort, Thirteeners as
- 1961-1981. That makes anyone who's now 11-31 a Thirteener, while
- Boomers are 32-49.
-
- Generations are longer than decades.
-
- So, why Thirteen? Doesn't "say" anything to me -- I certainly don't find
- any reason to relate to being called a member of "Generation 13". Rather
- seems to defeat the point of calling us "X". We have no place, thus "X".
- We are unidentifiable except by our misfortune to have been born after the
- "Boomers". (is all that right? i never read the book--wouldn't doubt if
- i've missed a crucial element in there some where) So, tho' I am basically
- ignorant as to what the appellation "Generation X" means, I would assume
- that by giving us a "number", it invalidates the basic premises upon which
- we were entitled "X".
-
- Circuitously,
-
- //anne, also a "Third Culture Kid"//
-