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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I'm generation X (depending on your definition of when it began and ended) and I busted my ass for years as did most of the kids I grew up with. I'm not that far from Gen Y and I can totally see the differences for sure and it's nothing to do with the typical old person saying; "when I was young" because I'm not that old.
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Are you not even aware of the defining characteristic of your own generation? For years Gen X was called "the
slacker generation". The same complaints you now have about Gen Y were heaped upon Gen X just a few years ago.
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Ask most people what comes to mind when they hear the phrase “Generation X,” and you’ll hear one word over and over again: slackers. The “slacker” label has clung to the cohort since the early 1990s, when films like Reality Bites (1994), Clerks (1994), and, yes, Slacker (1991) depicted American youth as cynical, directionless, and apathetic.
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