RR does it again!

according to wikipedia.....


Generation X generally consists of persons born in the 1960s and 1970s, although the exact dates of birth defining this age demographic are highly debated. It has also been described as consisting of those people whose "teen years touched the 1980s", born after baby boomers. The term Generation X is a cultural idea, rather than a demographic term, and as such describes a cultural period, or a select group of people, rather than a generation of people, spanning all classes, races, or nations, born in a certain period of time. Most traits associated with this generation are based on a particular segment of society, rather than general phenomena common to most of society.

As a phrase, without the current meaning, the term was coined as the title of a 1964 pulp novel, and was picked up as the name of a punk rock band featuring the young Billy Idol. It was later popularised by Douglas Coupland in his book Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, who took the X from Paul Fussell's 1983 book Class, where the term class X designated a region of America's social heirarchy rather than a generation. As Coupland explained in a 1995 interview, "In his final chapter, Fussell named an "X" category of people who wanted to hop off the merry-go-round of status, money, and social climbing that so often frames modern existence." It was after the publication of Coupland's book that the term began being used as a name for the generation by the media, who introduced Generation X as a group of flannel-wearing, alienated, over-educated, underachieving slackers with body piercing who drank Starbucks coffee and had to work at McJobs.