Generation X

Generation X consists of persons born from 1965 until 1974. As a phrase, without the currrent meaning, the term was coined as the title of a 1964 [pulp novel]?, and was picked up as the name of a punk rock band featuring the young [Billy Idol]?. It was latterly popularised by Douglas Coupland in his book "Generation X", who took it from a sociological text by [Paul Fussell]?.

The prior generation is the Baby Boom and the following generation is [Generation Y]?.

Generation X is much much smaller in size than the baby boom generation and therefore had much less impact on popular culture than the baby boom generation.

Generation X did not have much effect on popular culture until the late 1980s and early 1990s.

This manifested itself in Grunge Music and was explempified in the band Nirvana. As is common in generational shifts, Gen-X thinking has significant overtones of cynicism against things held dear to the generation of their parents, the baby boomers.

Some have suggested that Generation Xers are proud to not be from the baby boom generation and actively rebel against the idealism the baby boomers advocated in the 1960s.

Other people born in the described timeslot reject the labels as not particularly useful, as they see few unifying events and attitudes connecting them together, and point to social class, geography, and other factors having far more influence than chronology. The fuzzy boundaries of Generations X and Y in the lack of defining events give some credence to this argument.

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