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It occurred to me last night that, if you use the same metrics that I do, Obama just squeaks under the bar for qualifying as a fellow Gen-X-er. He was 19 on Jan 1, 1981, and therefore was a teenager during some part of the 1980s no matter how you slice it, even if only for a few months.

So, there you have it.

Date: 2008-11-16 10:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com
A while back I was thinking that Obama is almost, but probably not quite young enough to have been exposed to video games as a preteen child. They'd have started appearing in significant numbers when he was a teenager in Hawaii--young enough that he probably doesn't think of them as a weird thing that the kids do.

Date: 2008-11-17 01:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] radtea.livejournal.com
He's a year older than me, and therefore old enough to remember the landing on the Moon, my personal divide between me and "the younger generation". I still self-identify more as a Gen-X'er than a Boomer, though, which fits your definition.

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