On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 10:29:51 -0500, Creel, Wesley
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>Good Morning All,
>I would like to build on what Deb has said, regarding the definition of
>the term "Generation X"...... I remember reading a definition a couple
>of years ago....(I think it was an essay in the Atlantic Monthly, that
>the letter "X" referred to the Roman numeral X, meaning 10....and the
>generation in question was the 10th generation, following this nation's
>revolution of 1776......

The term "Generation X" was popularized by the Doug Copeland book of the
same name, published in 1991.  The phrase reflects the confusion expressed
by so many cultural observers who finally noticed that there were all these
young people running around who -- gasp! -- weren't boomers.

Strauss and Howe in their book "Generations" (also published in 1991) label
us the "13th Generation" -- the 13th to know and live under the American
flag.  Since independence, we're about nine-and-a-halfth, assuming one
accepts the generations they defined.

Eugene Dillenburg 

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