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- From: rita@eff.org (Rita Marie Rouvalis)
- Subject: Re: X or 13? You decide! (was Re: Now for something..)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.212437.24412@eff.org>
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- Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 21:24:37 GMT
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- In article <01GSL05HEY7C984OTD@vms.cis.pitt.edu> Blue eyes cryin' in the rain <TRAVEN@VMS.CIS.PITT.EDU> writes:
- > 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.
- >
- > Generations are longer than decades.
-
- I honestly don't know what the "real" definition of a
- generation is, but it would seem to me that once you get more than 10
- years apart in age, there are very few assumptions you can make about
- similarities in experiences (not that you can make very many in the
- first place). Growing up with or without Nintendo, MTV, a personal
- computer, Reaganism, the Vietnam War, Glastnost, etc. seem to me to be
- pretty important differences. An 11 year old will not have the same
- worldview as I do.
-
- Of course, labeling generations is silly anyways, but there is
- a certain amount of comfort in knowing that there is a whole
- bunch of people out there that grew up watching Scoobie Doo and The
- Electric Company just like me. I suppose that's the appeal.
-
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