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GENERATION X
Those people born approximately between the years 1960 and 1970 at the end of the baby boom and caught in the forces of economic restructuring and globalization. Also referred to as the ‘thirty somethings’ (they will of course become ‘forty somethings’). The term was coined by Canadian author Douglas Coupland (1991) as the title of a novel exploring the experience of growing up in the ‘shadow’ of the baby boom generation. See: BABY BOOM / .

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