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Xennials
Xennials (sometimes Xillenials) are the micro-generation of people on the cusp of the Generation X and Millennial demographic cohorts.
Many researchers and popular media use birth years from 1977 to 1983, though some extend this further in either direction. Xennials are described as having had an analog childhood and a digital young adulthood. Xennials are almost exclusively the children of baby boomers and came of age during a rapidly changing period that was the 1990s.
In 2020, Xennial was added to the Oxford Dictionary of English. It was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2021:
Xennial, n. and adj.: "A person born between the late 1970s and early 1980s, after (or towards the end of) Generation X and before (or at the beginning of) the millennial generation, and typically regarded as exhibiting characteristics of both of these generations"
Xennials is a portmanteau blending the words Generation X and Millennials to describe a "micro-generation" or "cross-over generation" of people whose birth years are between the mid- to late 1970s and the early to mid-1980s. Other terms, such as the Star Wars Generation, the Oregon Trail Generation and Generation Catalano have been proposed.
Xennials was coined by writer Sarah Stankorb, and discussed in a two-part, September 2014 article in GOOD magazine written by Stankorb, a freelance writer, and then-GOOD Magazine staff writer Jed Oelbaum. Good magazine has described Xennials as "a micro-generation that serves as a bridge between the disaffection of Gen X and the blithe optimism of Millennials."
Doree Shafrir, writing for Slate magazine, chose "Generation Catalano" for its reference to the character Jordan Catalano, played by Jared Leto (b. 1971), from the mid 1990's teen drama My So-Called Life. She defined "Generation Catalano" as those born from 1977 to 1981, the timeframe of Jimmy Carter's presidency.
Dan Woodman, a professor of social and political sciences at Melbourne University in Australia, said that he "inadvertently" helped popularise the term when journalist Rachel Curtis asked him if it would make sense to cut the generations differently in an article that soon captured the internet's attention. Xennials received additional attention in June 2017 following a viral Facebook post by Mashable.
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Xennials
Xennials (sometimes Xillenials) are the micro-generation of people on the cusp of the Generation X and Millennial demographic cohorts.
Many researchers and popular media use birth years from 1977 to 1983, though some extend this further in either direction. Xennials are described as having had an analog childhood and a digital young adulthood. Xennials are almost exclusively the children of baby boomers and came of age during a rapidly changing period that was the 1990s.
In 2020, Xennial was added to the Oxford Dictionary of English. It was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2021:
Xennial, n. and adj.: "A person born between the late 1970s and early 1980s, after (or towards the end of) Generation X and before (or at the beginning of) the millennial generation, and typically regarded as exhibiting characteristics of both of these generations"
Xennials is a portmanteau blending the words Generation X and Millennials to describe a "micro-generation" or "cross-over generation" of people whose birth years are between the mid- to late 1970s and the early to mid-1980s. Other terms, such as the Star Wars Generation, the Oregon Trail Generation and Generation Catalano have been proposed.
Xennials was coined by writer Sarah Stankorb, and discussed in a two-part, September 2014 article in GOOD magazine written by Stankorb, a freelance writer, and then-GOOD Magazine staff writer Jed Oelbaum. Good magazine has described Xennials as "a micro-generation that serves as a bridge between the disaffection of Gen X and the blithe optimism of Millennials."
Doree Shafrir, writing for Slate magazine, chose "Generation Catalano" for its reference to the character Jordan Catalano, played by Jared Leto (b. 1971), from the mid 1990's teen drama My So-Called Life. She defined "Generation Catalano" as those born from 1977 to 1981, the timeframe of Jimmy Carter's presidency.
Dan Woodman, a professor of social and political sciences at Melbourne University in Australia, said that he "inadvertently" helped popularise the term when journalist Rachel Curtis asked him if it would make sense to cut the generations differently in an article that soon captured the internet's attention. Xennials received additional attention in June 2017 following a viral Facebook post by Mashable.