(Philip Bump/The Washington Post)The entire point of generational labels — Generation X, millennials — is that they’re meant to provide a sense of unity. There weren’t any, I was told, except for the baby boomers, because the baby boom was a demographically distinguishable generation. When boomers started running advertising shops, they’re the ones who invented these other labels: Generation X, after the 1991 novel, and then the millennials. We generally agree, at this point, that someone born in 1975 is Generation X and someone born in 1990 is a millennial. On Thursday, Pew Research kicked off a new round of generational introspection by declaring that, according to its new definition, the millennial generation ends in 1996.

Source: Washington Post March 01, 2018 21:16 UTC