and do you think you fit in with your generation? (its for a uni project)
Poll on it's way!
Baby Boomers
(1946 - 1964)
The Baby Boomers were the generation born just after World War II, a time that included a 14-year increase in birthrate worldwide. Baby Boomers in their teen and college years were characteristically part of the 1960s counterculture, but later became more conservative, eventually gave birth to Generations X and Y. Most academic and demographic literature uses 1946 and 1960 as the cutoff years of the Baby Boom generation
Generation X
(1965 - 1981)
Generation X is the generation born between approximately 1964 to 1981. Other names used interchangeably with Generation X are 13th Generation and Baby Busters. Most of this generation are children of The Baby Boomers and The Silent Generation. They tended to grow up with video games and MTV, and those born before 1973 spent most of their teen years in the 1980s
MTV Generation
(1975 - 1985)
MTV Generation is a term that has been widely used to define a generation of young adults born between 1975-1985 in the Western World who are influenced by fashion trends, music, and slang terms shown in music videos on the newly created cable channel MTV. MTV Generation has often been associated as a neologism for Generation X.
Generation Y
(1980 - 1994)
Generation Y, also known as the Echo Boom although Millennials is becoming the more common parlance for this generation. They grew up with many world-changing events including the rise of mass communication, the Internet, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The Y Generation is known as a Culture War "battleground" with growing disagreements between conservative and progressive perspectives. 1981-2001 is the widest possible definition commonly cited.
There is some cross-over there, so if you belong to both Gen X and the MTV generation or the MTV generation and Gen Y then just pick the one you fall into more.
Example - If you were born in 1980 then you would be part of Generation X and the MTV generation, but because the cut off for Gen X is 1981, and the cut off for the MTV generation is 1985, you would fit more into the MTV generation.