Generation X

In the 1991 book Generations, William Strauss and Neil Howe call

this generation the "13th Generation" and define the birth years as 1961 to

1981.

Few characteristics of generation x:• Better educated than baby boomers• came of age in an era of two-income families• Rising divorce rates • Women were joining the workforce in large numbers • Independent, resourceful and self-sufficient • Many in this generation display a casual disdain for authority and

structured work hours. • The first generation to grow up with computers, technology is woven

into their lives • Generation X is ambitious and eager to learn new skills but want to

accomplish things on their own terms. • members of Generation X work to live rather than live to work.

By Sally Kane, About.com.Guide http://legalcareers.about.com/od/practicetips/a/GenerationX.htm

The first generation to grow up with computers, technology is woven into their lives

Individuals associated with Generation X have political experiences and cultural perspective that

were shaped by events such as:

• THE END OF COLD WAR• FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL• 1973 OIL CRISIS AND 1979 ENERGY CRISIS• 1980s RECESSION• INCEPTION OF HOME COMPUTER• RISE OF VIDEOGAMES AND CABLE TELEVISION • INTERNET FOR SOCIAL AND COMERCIAL PURPOSES • AIDS EPIDEMIC• SPACE SHUTTLE CHALLENGER DISASTER• HIP HOP CULTURE• MTV GENERATION

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X

Events in the 60s• From left, clockwise: Adlai

Stevenson II addresses the UN Security Council on location of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis; a soldier lies on the ground during the Vietnam War; Martin Luther King Jr. makes his famous "I Have a Dream" speech to a crowd of over a million during the March on Washington in 1963; For the first time in history, a human being sets his foot on the Moon, in the Moon landing of July 1969; China's Mao Zedong executes the Great Leap Forward, a disastrous attempt to modernize the Chinese economy that ended in severe grain shortages and the deaths of tens of millions of people; An explosion erupts during a battle of the Six-Day War; a poster promoting decolonization of Africa; the birth control pill is introduced in the 1960s

Events in the 70s• From left, clockwise: US President

Richard Nixon doing the V for Victory sign after his resignation from office after the Watergate scandal in 1974; Refugees aboard a US naval boat after the Fall of Saigon, leading to the end of the Vietnam War in 1975; The 1973 oil crisis puts the nation of America in gridlock; Both the leaders of Israel and Egypt shake hands after the signing of the Camp David Accords in 1978; The 1970 Bhola cyclone kills an estimated 500,000 people in the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan in November 1970; The Iranian Revolution of 1979 transformed Iran from an autocratic pro-western monarchy to a theocratic Islamist government under the leadership of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini; The popularity of the Disco music genre peaked during the middle to late 1970

Events in the 80s:• From left, clockwise: The first Space

Shuttle, Columbia, lifted off in 1981; American President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev eased tensions between the two superpowers, leading to the end of the Cold War; The Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 is considered to be the most momentous event of the 1980s; In 1986, six astronauts and one teacher died in the Challenger disaster; In 1985, the Live Aid concert was held in order to fund relief efforts for the famine in Ethiopia; Ukraine and much of the world is filled with radioactive debris from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster; The Iran–Iraq War leads to over one million dead and $1 trillion spent

Generation x - Today, digital immigrant?

• Digital immigrants:

Prefer to talk on the phone or in person, text sparingly, prefer synchronistic communication, are accustomed to and like to read manuals with clear steps, assume they will work their way up the ladder in the workplace (in a linear fashion, in one career), enjoy face-to-face contact with their friends, value the use of proper english, use the internet to gather information, think young people are wasting their lives via online research (wikipedia generation) and communication, believe the internet is not "real life, " and have safety concerns such as kidnapping, assault, and robbery.

• http://cybersolutionstoday.blogspot.com/2011/03/new-york-times-article-on-tenn-sexting.html