That makes sense as a reason too. I think the 60s saw an undeniable cultural shift. The 80s is harder to pinpoint and yet I don’t know anyone born in the last years of the 70s that is comfortable with being grouped with Gen X without caveats.

[–] GreatGrapeApe@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Worth noting that Douglas Copeland who wrote the book Generation X that gives the generation it's name cut it off in 1974 if I recall correctly.

[–] braxy29@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

i'm late gen x (78), that's more comfortable to me than being lumped with millennials. (the caveat being, i suppose, that we're dissimilar in some respects from early gen x.)

internet was not widely available until about the time i started college, and gen x media defined popular culture at that time. i also relate to the notion of being the child of two working parents - the first generation of latchkey kids.

i tend to see millennials as people who were kids when i was in school - and they grew up with the internet.