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who here is a Gen-Xer?
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Were you born between 1964 & 1979?
yes
75%
 75%  [ 66 ]
before?
4%
 4%  [ 4 ]
after?
19%
 19%  [ 17 ]
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chaz47



Joined: 11 Sep 2003

PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 1:17 pm    Post subject: who here is a Gen-Xer? Reply with quote

who here is a Gen-Xer?

I have an anthropologist friend who like to draw upon this social theory of Straus & Howe, here's the Amazon page with their books:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0688119123/104-6467002-5753567?v=glance

According to their theory the Xers, roughly those born between 64 and 79 (I think) are the most recent "nomad" generation, characterized by wanderlust and an "out of the box style of thinking"... supposedly the Xers will be more informed and responsible than the outgoing Boomers and will form the new establisment... etc. I dunno, seems like an interesting idea, just thought I'd take a sampling from some current ex-pats to see if it pans out.
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MissT



Joined: 06 Apr 2005
Location: Korea

PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 2:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am Very Happy
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On the other hand



Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue

PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 3:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was born in 1968.

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supposedly the Xers will be more informed and responsible than the outgoing Boomers and will form the new establisment... etc.


That may be, but on the face of it it just strikes me as another case of romanticizing the upcoming generation, the same sort of thing that people said about the boomers.

But yeah, Gen Xers will probably be the next establishment. I don't think that's a very controversial proposition. Power won't likely pass from the boomers to Gen Y, skipping the Xers for some inexplicable reason.
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Konundrum



Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Boston

PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 5:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am a Gen-Xer and seem to fit most of the stereotypes that come with being one...or rather, I did when I was a high school/college student.
It's really odd- as you grow older, you can see that the stereotypes involved with certain generations (Babyboomers, Gen-x and so on) seem to hold water.
BTW..what would the generation that is in university now be called?

Cuz I'm telling ya, after working with university students here in Boston, they sure seem to be a "I want everything but work for nothing" bunch.
You should hear some of the inane, selfish requests and complaints they make.
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Zyzyfer



Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: who, what, where, when, why, how?

PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 6:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

'79, that's actually considered Gen X? Teachers in school who discussed the subject always mentioned to my classes that we were Gen Y.
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Ody



Joined: 27 Jan 2003
Location: over here

PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 7:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Zyzyfer wrote:
'79, that's actually considered Gen X? Teachers in school who discussed the subject always mentioned to my classes that we were Gen Y.

Generation X is the marginal generation between the two baby booms. it begins in 1965 and ends when the next boom starts. I��m not sure exactly when that is but i recall the hype on Madison Avenue back in the mid nineties was that, ��Y'ers were coming of age and that their pockets were deep!�� it was all, "good-bye grunge, and hello conspicuous consumption!��

it's no coincidence that Britney Spears soon hit it big and the movie Clueless, with it's label-touting heroine, was a hit, about this time.
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Real Reality



Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Sat Apr 30, 2005 7:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am generation XY.

Laughing
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Moldy Rutabaga



Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea

PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2005 5:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Not sure that we'll form the new establishment-- not if we spend our lives here in Korea paying off student loans because the previous generation octupled college tuition rates on us in the 80s and 90s. Confused I'm not bitter.

Furthermore, the nomadic nature of Gen X precludes, I think, us being establishment. If we're all such wandering and introspective people, it seems unlikely that we'll gel into some cultural mass. It's more likely that Boomers will transfer their wealth and values to Gen Y, and Gen X will forever be those eccentric older people who never embraced 'normal' values.

But so be it. I think in thirty years, the best poets, musicians, artists, and thinkers will be those Gen X people who never fit into the machine. Misfits often tend to be successful in a different way. Of course, they might also blow up the world..

I hope I get some reward for being ignored by society for my adult life.. and then being told by Madison Avenue that I'm too old.

These are just my random thoughts. I wish the link was to a book excerpt and not just a sales pitch.

Ken:>
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Wangja



Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan

PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2005 5:43 am    Post subject: Re: who here is a Gen-Xer? Reply with quote

chaz47 wrote:
who here is a Gen-Xer?

I have an anthropologist friend who like to draw upon this social theory of Straus & Howe, here's the Amazon page with their books:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0688119123/104-6467002-5753567?v=glance

According to their theory the Xers, roughly those born between 64 and 79 (I think) are the most recent "nomad" generation, characterized by wanderlust and an "out of the box style of thinking"... supposedly the Xers will be more informed and responsible than the outgoing Boomers and will form the new establisment... etc. I dunno, seems like an interesting idea, just thought I'd take a sampling from some current ex-pats to see if it pans out.


On that logic I'm a Gen-Wer (no jokes from Brits please Laughing )
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little mixed girl



Joined: 11 Jun 2003
Location: shin hyesung's bed~

PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2005 11:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

after. 1983.
tho, when i was in school we were randomly trying to figure out who was and wasn't.
we're like gen y or some retarded ish like that.
what happened to the rest of the alphabet? Sad
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Demophobe



Joined: 17 May 2004

PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2005 12:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

little mixed girl wrote:

what happened to the rest of the alphabet? Sad



It was born later.
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bucheon bum



Joined: 16 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2005 12:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Zyzyfer wrote:
'79, that's actually considered Gen X? Teachers in school who discussed the subject always mentioned to my classes that we were Gen Y.


yeah, we're borderline. Not that it really matters does it?
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chaz47



Joined: 11 Sep 2003

PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2005 3:19 pm    Post subject: technology, global village... ? Reply with quote

my anthro-friend likes to say that the Xers will have a fount of real world experience coupled with techno know how, the current university age generation... the Yers or the Millenials in the Strauss & Howe model are very techno savvy in their own right being raised with things like cell phones and the Internet but they are wrapped up in a shroud of illusory media that the Xers (how many Xers do you know that are addicted to video games) managed to avoid... a lot of Xers were also latchkey kids and have learned independence at an earlier age... etc.

he also goes on to say that we are going into what the author's call a "Winter" and the Millenials are destined to be the next generation of draftees in a war as culture decays... anyway... every generation has its characteristics, that can be likened to season... and just as seasons repeat on a yearly basis so do generations and cultural epochs... the Millenials are supposed to be like the WWI generation or the "greatest generation" (? not sure on this reference to the greatest generation ?)

there's other stuff online by the authors, i think a good deal of "Generations" can be read online (Google), at least enough to understand the theory... they attempt to trace it back into the colonial era

it's interesting that so far the poll seems to be indicating a large percentage of expats are Nomad Xers...
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eamo



Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2005 5:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm a typical Gen-Xer. Born 1969.

One difference I notice about the X and Y generations is their opinions on politics. X-ers remember ideology. We remember when politics was all about right-wing versus left-wing.

Y-ers don't get that at all. They are issue-driven. They jump from one issue to the next without really seeing their political rationale in one unified theory. One year they are all about WTO protests. The next year they have moved on to pro-choice demos.
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hypnotist



Joined: 04 Dec 2004
Location: I wish I were a sock

PostPosted: Sun May 01, 2005 6:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

'78 here, but I feel like I got stuck at the age of 25.
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