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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:54:00 EST
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- From: Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU>
- Subject: Re: X or 13? You decide! (was Re: Now for something..)
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- > I'll have to read the Atlantic article, but Generation X'ers
- >are those who were born in the 1960's. So Jenna, //anne//, Alec, and
- >Rashmi are all X'ers. Aaron, Lisa, and the VMI'ers, on the other hand,
- >were all probably born in the 1970's (assuming they are average aged
- >college students). They are not X'ers. Perhaps they are the
- >Thirteeners the article was talking about?
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- 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.
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- Generations are longer than decades.
-
- Yeah, I thought of Ken upon seeing the cover. I too am fleshier than
- that. Also grayer, particularly the beard. The young'un looks like at
- least 1/3 of Pitt undergrads and local HS students.
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