Talk:Generation X

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53% increase in college enrollment should be 114%

Data supplied: 5.7 million inreased to 12.2 million. 122/57=2.14, an increase of 114%. 100.34.87.67 (talk) 00:42, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Characteristics section wrong wiki link

The mentioned chopper bicycle links to the chopper motor cycle whereas its clear from the image that the article is speaking of the bicycle type here not the motorized(with engine) one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raleigh_Chopper --102.38.233.126 (talk) 15:38, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Done, thank you Michaelmalak (talk) 19:26, 19 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 17 April 2025

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There is a more recent source article about Generation X and its behaviours on Silver Magazine as part of an in depth study. Please consider adding this to the External Links section: https://silvermagazine.co.uk/the-naked-truth-what-are-boomers-and-generation-x-really-like 2A00:23C7:F13:4301:F546:89B3:50BE:D188 (talk) 06:43, 17 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: Appears to be a primary source covering a survey that may or may not be scientific. LizardJr8 (talk) 13:17, 6 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Cold War and nuclear proliferation

Speaking from an U.S. perspective: By far one of the biggest things going on during this generations childhood was the massive stockpiling of wepons of mass destruction. The notion of nuclear mutual assured destruction (M.A.D.) was a common topic in Washington and in the news. The airing of the network TV movie "The Day After" had a profound affect on this generation. Fear of a nuclear apocalypse deserves a section of it's own.

I think the collapse of the Soviet Union deserves a section as well.

The beginning of fears about Global Warming happened in this generation.

And some mention of the band U2 should be made. Aristarchus of Detroit (talk) 06:02, 25 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request/ Question about lede

Hello. I have a question concerning the lede of the page, especially with the sentence "researchers and popular media often utilize the mid 60s as the... and the late 70s as the ending birth years". If 1980 is commonly cited as the last year of Gen X, would this mean that the previously mentioned sentence should say "and the early 80s as the ending birth years"? There are even other citations in the body that mention other multiple early 80s end dates. I wanted to ask if the sentence could be updated, or if this was purposely done to prevent people from including birth years that are generally considered Millennial, such as 1981-1983? However, as I've mentioned, 1980 is pretty much definitely considered Gen X throughout the article. 2601:940:C100:8890:2C00:985F:96F5:41ED (talk) 23:16, 22 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, this was a mistake. I've fixed it. Thanks, Dan Bloch (talk) 02:09, 23 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]