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Generation X and Y

Gen X and Gen Y
A people grow older, and their kids grow up, with them becomes new ideas, hopes, dreams, motives, norms, and many other things that are recognized by adults as a change in society. It seams that the adults forget that back when they were my age, most of them were doing drugs, talking about freedoms, and listening to bands like The Doors, CCR, and Jimi Hendrix. They also tend to forget that they set, or at least set in motion, some of the norms and standards that my generation is bringing back. Long hair, Chuck Taylors, and the ¡®60's and ¡®70's music are almost just as big of part of my generation as it was to theirs. But when looking at generations, you have to dig deeper into the people and not so deep in their closets. I mean, look within them, not at them. Lets take a look at the people born in the 60's and 70's compared to the people born in the 80's and 90's, or better yet, Generation X, and Generation Y.

The term Generation X was created b...

Posted by: Jennifer Valles

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