As millennials and baby boomers have been squaring off in a battle of ideals, the generation sandwiched between them is simply battling to remain relevant in the political and cultural zeitgeist.
Johnson, the author, who was born in 1970, attributes that birth gap to"a combination of the job market opening up for women, women having more career choices right at the time that the Vietnam War occurred and also the pill became available."
For those relatively few who did manage to be born in the Generation X period, coming of age during a particular moment in time, after Watergate and Vietnam, may have had ramifications on their psyche. "I think it’s fair to say, looking at their political attitudes, they came of age when there was a tremendous amount of skepticism about government and politics," Taylor said."There was also the message they received from their upbringing. Xers grew up in a time of record divorce rates, so you had the most important institution to any child growing up, his or her own family, often coming apart.
"In terms of the percentage, it might be that the percentage of millennials that are active is greater than the percentage of generation Xers that are active, but the percentages are really small out of the total population," said David S. Meyer, professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, who has studied the history of social activism.A majority of Generation Xers apparently agree on one thing — there's nothing particularly special about them as a demographic.
"I don’t think the Xers as a generation have imprinted on themselves or the country as a whole some notion or some story about themselves," Taylor said.
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