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I'm currently having a heated discussion with some friends and a family member about where one of us who was born in 1983 - falls into Generation X or Millennials - I'm saying it's X because the boomers are from 1946-1964 (18 years) but according to "the internet" it says Gen X is from 65-80 (15 years).

I personally feel that a generation is 20 years - why should the boomer generation be worth 18 years while Gen X is only worth 15 years and Millennials are considered anywhere between 1980 to 2000 (20 years)?

So why are the amount of years fluctuating to fit people's little cliques and mindsets when it should be 20 years tops?

I'm currently having a heated discussion with some friends and a family member about where one of us who was born in 1983 - falls into Generation X or Millennials - I'm saying it's X because the boomers are from 1946-1964 (18 years) but according to "the internet" it says Gen X is from 65-80 (15 years). I personally feel that a generation is 20 years - why should the boomer generation be worth 18 years while Gen X is only worth 15 years and Millennials are considered anywhere between 1980 to 2000 (20 years)? So why are the amount of years fluctuating to fit people's little cliques and mindsets when it should be 20 years tops?

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[–] • 4 pts

Does it really matter?

Some sociologists defined some arbitrary cut-off date to divide you from those around you, so they could get a research grant into studying the various strata and how they can efficiently put you into one category or another.

Stop arguing about unproductive things, like age demographics, and start having real conversations, like something about race demographics.

[–] • 1 pt

This is an artificially created division point. Of course you will see some generalizations that ring true. But, if you get toward the chronological edges of these categorizations things are not as simple. You can't tell me that a gen x person born in 1980 has less in common with someone that was born in 1985, than someone born in 1967.