Your latest piece seems to be a first-person narrative, albeit a satirical one. But do you really think of yourself as "young, hip, and cynical"? (emphasis added) Having graduated college in 1990, you're surely at least 40 years old, especially given Canada's 13th year of grade school.
(Gen-X, maybe, if "born in the 1970s" isn't a hard-and-fast requirement. (Is 1966 the traditional Boomer/X cutoff?) Youthful, not so much.)
Incidentally, kudos on managing to write the quintessential atrocious Maureen Dowd column without actually being Maureen Dowd.
Posted by Matt Bruce at February 15, 2008 04:33 PMA couple of nitpicky comments:
- In Canada, only Ontario ever had grade 13 (until it was abolished within the last decade). School has always gone up to grade 12 in all of the other provinces, except Quebec, which has its own system with CEGEP between secondary school and university.
- The baby boom officially ended in 1964 in the U.S. I'm not sure why that exact cutoff (whereas the beginning cutoff of 1946 is obvious), but I've always heard it that way. Wikipedia says that the Canadian baby boom didn't officially end until 1966, which is news to me. Anyway, Generation X is what followed. The boundary between Generations X and Y doesn't seem well demarcated.
The baby boom ended in 1966 in Canada due to the exchange rate. That or the metric system.
Posted by: Mark at February 17, 2008 06:51 AMI think they picked 1964 because it's 18 years after 1946, and therefore many kids born after that date have parents who are Boomers.
Of course, that's still somewhat arbitrary. I was born in 1968, and neither of my parents are young enough to be considered Boomers. Culturally, though, I am 100% Gen-X.
Posted by: Brian at February 18, 2008 07:57 AM