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Generation X (often shortened to Gen X) is the demographic cohort following the Baby Boomers and preceding Millennials.Researchers and popular media often use the mid-1960s as its starting birth years and the late 1970s as its ending birth years, with the generation generally defined as people born from 1965 to 1980.
The Woodstock pop festival (1969) was a defining moment for older Boomers; Generation Jones tends to remember the Watergate scandal (1972–1974) and the cultural cynicism it begat. While in high school, members of Generation Jones had a distinct feeling of having just missed the real hippie era.
This group represents slightly more than half of the generation, or roughly 38,002,000 people. The other half of the generation, usually called "Generation Jones", but sometimes also called names like the "late boomers" or "trailing-edge baby boomers", was born between 1956 and 1964, and came of age after Vietnam and the Watergate scandal.
Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill delves into what constitutes a generation, from Boomers and Gen X to Millennials, Gen Z and beyond.
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation is a documentary by Barak Goodman, produced in 2019 by PBS. It focused on Woodstock's social and political context and contained previously unseen footage supplemented by voice-over anecdotes from people at the festival.
Other terms, such as the Star Wars Generation, the Oregon Trail Generation [20] and Generation Catalano [21] have been proposed. Doree Shafrir, writing for Slate magazine, chose "Generation Catalano" for its reference to the character Jordan Catalano, played by Jared Leto (born 1971), from the 1994–95 teen drama My So-Called Life.
Gen Z was born between 1997 and 2012 and is considered the first generation to have largely grown up using the internet, modern technology and social media.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Gen Xers were often called the "Latchkey Generation" because many came home from school to empty houses, needing a key to let themselves in. This was due to rising divorce ...