Thanks.

I mean no disrespect with the "in-between" label. I couldn't come up with a better label and didn't like any of the proposals out there that I have heard.

On the "Xennial" idea, though I reject "millennials" and "gen x" as empty concepts, we should accept that people on the cusps of however we divide the generations will combine attributes of both generations. And definitely, we could identify micro generations. We should be having such discussions about what factors affect people, not slavishly lumping people into stereotypes.

As for how to think about people born between 1977 and 1981: using my age 5 to 17 formula (and this is arguing backwards from how I think about it) these people are most affected by events occurring between 1982 and 1994 or 1986 and 1998. I argue that over those years Western world changed less in this period than in the previous and subsequent periods, the exception being the fall of the Soviet Union. One could say that was a world defining event for Americans, but I'm not as convinced, and I never would have said so prior to really thinking about it. Now, people living in central and eastern Europe would definitely have found that a watershed event, but he US just morphed from one political cover story to another for its global hegemony.

But hey, all of this is very open to interpretation and discussion, which is why I'm offering a new methodology for that discussion.