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2575032 Ja vad är vi som är födda på 80-talet egentligen? (1982 själv om nu nån undrar..)
Först har jag något minne av att vi var Generation X, förlorade och allt sånt.
Sedan blev vi väl MTV-generationen i samband med att den kanalen lanseraders och alla påverkades av den.
Nu senast hörde jag att vi ska vara Generation I (som i iPod) eftersom vi tydligen anammar alla tekniska nyheter.. Personligen tycker jag detta stämmer lika bra för de födda på 90-talet.
Finns det någon som har en bra förklaring till detta eller är vi samma skit med olika namn?
The Clash were headed for a head on collision
Crash for complete control
The Pistols left behind a swindle and a scandal
That nobody wished to handle
Sham 69 were left in a shambles
Generation X was next
Detta sagt av Philip Lynott på skivan Solo in soho, låten var "Talk in 79' "
Lyssna gärna på låten...
Men annars är det snömos, för generation X har alltid funnits sedan 60-talet, det är bara olika grupper som står i fokus olika årtionden...
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Generation X is a term used to describe the profusion of people born following the peak of the post-Second World War baby boom, especially in Canada and the United States. While all sources agree the group includes at least some people born in the 1960s, the exact demographic boundaries vary depending on whether each source means people born just before the end of the boom, or just after, or just whoever happens to be twentysomething at the time.[1] The term is used in demography, the social sciences, and marketing, though it is most often used in popular culture. The generation's influence over pop culture began in the 1980s and may have peaked in the 1990s.
Although the term Generation X appears back as far as the early 1960s, it was popularized by Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, in which Coupland described the angst of those born between roughly 1960 and 1965, who, originally and incorrectly labeled as part of the baby boom generation, felt no connection to its cultural icons. In Coupland's usage, the X of Generation X referred to the namelessness of a generation that was coming into an awareness of its existence as a separate group but feeling dwarfed and overshadowed by the Boomer generation of which it was ostensibly a part. Afterwards the term stretched to include more people, being appropriated by the generation following the Baby Boomers and being used by marketers throughout the 1990s to denote potential buyers who were in their twenties at some time during the decade.
Generation X has also been described as a generation consisting of those people whose teen years were touched by the 1980s, although this excludes the oldest and youngest X'ers covered by the other definitions. Cameron Crowe, film director, posed as a high school student in 1980 to conduct research on a new generation in high school that was the first generation to study the Vietnam War as nothing more than a history lesson[citation needed]. This new generation did not worry about the draft which had been repealed when they were in elementary school. They also listened to a new kind of music, new wave, and propelled a new generation of rock stars onto the charts as early as the late 1970s- The Pretenders, The Cars, Blondie, and Devo[citation needed]. Cameron Crowe titled his book, released in 1981, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, followed by a hit film of the same name in 1982[citation needed]. Those in high school at the beginning of the 1980s were the first Gen Xers, described so well by Cameron Crowe, and the Fast Times film remains the ultimate Generation X reference film almost a quarter-century later[citation needed]. Unfortunately, these first Gen Xers also had another first - they were the first to attend college during the beginning of the HIV/AIDs epidemic. HIV started making headlines in 1983 reminding Generation X that the "free love" enjoyed by college-age Baby Boomers was a thing of the past.
Another common description of Generation X involves a period of transition (1945–1990) from the end of World War II and the decline of colonial imperialism to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. The transition between colonialism and globalization is thought to separate the Baby Boomers from the Baby Busters, a sub-generation of Generation X made up of the earliest born members.
In California after the passage of Proposition 13 limiting property taxes in 1978, Generation X began adulthood in an era of budget cutbacks and rising fees for all public services from universities to state parks[citation needed]. However, this was a national trend in the 1980s and 1990s and not limited to just California. Hostility between Baby Boomers and Generation X increased in the 1980s and 1990s as Gen Xers accused Baby Boomers of hypocrisy and a "greed is good" mentality and Baby Boomers accused Gen Xers of being slackers
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