Question of the Day #536

"Gen X keen to go back to office, millennials want to wait: LinkedIn"

From the headline of this article at Livemint.

上記の文で、Gen Xの意味は？
In the sentence above, what does "Gen X" mean?

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解答

意味：
英辞郎によると、

＝Generation X
〈米〉X世代、ジェネレーションX◆1960年代初頭から1970年代半ばにかけて生まれた、ベビー・ブーム世代の後の世代。高学歴だが失業者が多く、消費文化になじめずに、将来の希望を持てない世代とされる。

もっと詳しい説明は、下記例文のリンク先にあります。

Answer

According to The Indepedent:

Generation X
The starting birth years for those who fall into generation X have a very large span, with the birth years understood to range from the early-to-mid 1960s to the early 1980s.
However, some have differing opinions over where generation X begins due to the uncertainty over the ending birth years of the post-World War II baby boomers.

Etymology/語源

The Independentによると、

Generation Xは、1991年出版のDouglas Couplandの著書Generation X: Tales for Accelerated Cultureから人気がでたとされている。

According to The Independent:

The term "generation X" was popularised by the 1991 book Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, by Douglas Coupland.

Examples

• In fact, that’s the anecdotal origin of the term Gen X — illustrating the undetermined characteristics they would come to be known by.
• The exact years that comprise Gen X vary. Some researchers—demographers William Straus and Neil Howe, for example—place the exact birth years from 1961 to 1981, whereas Gallup places the birth years between 1965 and 1979.
• Gen X is often characterized by high levels of skepticism, “what’s in it for me” attitudes and a reputation for some of the worst music to ever gain popularity.
• The idea behind that “X” was about coming between. Gen X supposedly didn’t know what they were, or what they wanted. All they knew, they were told, was what they didn’t want — marriage, money, success — and then they shrugged and popped a Prozac.
• Gen X gave America portable music via the Walkmen, experienced “Parental Advisory” stickers first on music, forward fashion, and a whole lot more that jumpstarted and defined what America is today.

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