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Twenty Facts About Generation by Jake Rossen

20 Facts About Generation X by Jake Rossen

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January 5, 2022
by Jake Rossen

After Baby Boomers but before Millennials is Generation X, the people born between the period of 1965 and 1980 and with an age range of 41 to 56 who were the first to get hip to the internet, wore parachute pants, and who may have worried Y2K was going to ruin the world.

But there’s more to this category of humans than ’90s references. Check out some things you may not have realized about the inarguably dopest social construct.

1. GENERATION X WAS NAMED AFTER A BOOK.
The Baby Boomers were the first named generation, after the kids who arrived—a literal baby boom—when their parents began to settle down after World War II. Generation X didn’t have a war that sparked it. Instead, it was words: author Douglas Coupland’s 1991 book Generation X: Tales for An Accelerated Culture. The novel about disenfranchised post-Boomers struck a nerve and the name stuck.

… 3. GENERATION X IS ALSO KNOWN AS “THE FORGOTTEN GENERATION.”
It’s because Baby Boomers and Millennials tend to get all the romanticized media attention, leaving Generation X comparatively ignored.

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