Baby Boomers Are Jealous

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Baby Boomers are Jealous

Generation X'ers have been described as "fanatically independent

individuals pathologically ambivalent about the future, and brimming with

unsatisfied longings for permanence, for love, and for material possessions."

(Lauren, p.64) This less-than-flattering description of our generation has

since been expanded by the media to the point that myself and my peers are

described as a bunch of apathetic slackers unconcerned with family values,

godless cynics resentful of the preceding generations.

Since Douglas Coupland's Book Generation X came out in 1991, many things

have been said about the twentysomethings. Labeled by Coupland and the media

as Generation X. Although the name has stuck, Coupland's book is virtually

impossible to find. Why is that? Could it be because Generation X describes us,

me, everyone who was born between the years of 1963-1983 as "white and

privileged and living in a suburb near you" (Giles, p4). In addition,

Advertising Age referred to Generation X'ers as "That cynical, purple-haired

blob watching TV." (Giles, p2)

What makes our generation so special, is that we have proven them all

wrong. Generation X consists of those between the ages 13 and 33 years of age.

We as a group have become the productive, interested, and hardworking

individuals that we are today. We have grown to realize that the future's

undiscovered country is awaiting our arrival, and is there for the taking.

It isn't at all ironic that during our short lives the world has seen so

many changes. Through the work of our generation and the reactions of the Baby

Boomers generation, we have helped turn this world into a new age of wisdom; a

cut-the-crap, truth seeking generation, both richer and poorer because of it.

Do not feel threatened, however, our future, our generations future, and the

future of the human race, is in the hands of the most informed generation to

date. Growing up in an ever shrinking world. X'ers mostly share an impatience

with racism, greed, and ignorance (Lauren, p. 70). The common use of the

computer opened the ever expanding horizons to the highways of the world

throughout cyberspace.

Fact be known Gen X is neither white, nor rich, nor do they all live in

a suburb near you. 70 percent of X'ers are white, while 13 percent are black,

12 percent Hispanic, 4 per...

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...ed. It is also this which

brings us together, and defines us a generation, Generation X.

Works cited

Atwan, Robert, ed. Our Times. 4th Edition Boston: Bedford 1995

Carnoy, David. "Into the Great Divide." Swing: September 1996: 80-81

Forrest, Bret. "Douglas Coupland: Thoughts and Reality" Swing: July/Aug 1996: 75

Giles, Jeff. "Generalizations X." Our Times. Ed. Robert Atwan. 4th edition.

Boston: Bedford, 1995

Goldman, Debra. "Generalizations X." Our Times. Ed. Robert Atwan. 4th edition.

Boston: Bedford, 1995

Harris, Lou. "Family Values." Swing: September 1996: 81

Lauren, David. "Who We Are." Swing: April 1996: 62-72

Leveridge, Brett. "Men My Mother Dated" Might: Nov/Dec1996:16

Liu, Eric. "Generalizations X." Our Times. Ed. Robert Atwan. 4th edition.

Boston: Bedford, 1995

Schiman, Ben. "Work Life." Swing: September 1996: 80

T.A.G., "Electoral Objectives" Http://www.mindspring.com/^tag/electorial_

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