Why This Boomer Loves Generation Xers

Yesterday, I was searching the Internet and found an article titled "Why I hate Boomers." Today, I followed up with a search for "I hate Boomers." I found an entire page, including a forum thread and a blog.

My reply to this hatred of Boomers is "I love Generation Xers." I love them for many reasons, but cover only seven broad ones in this article.

Now that wasn't always the case. When the first class of Generation Xers enrolled in my classes at The University of Oklahoma, I was bewildered. I'd never taught students who accepted nothing that I taught without questioning it, often in a challenging and disrespectful way.

I became driven to understand them because that was the only way that I could effectively teach them. Thus, I first love Generation Xers because they compelled me to begin researching generations, and that began a line of research that has since become a passion.

Then, mostly Boomer writers were describing Generation Xers as "drifters, whiners, malcontents, and cynics." But as I taught and got to know my Generation X students, I realized that they were independent, pragmatic, self-sufficient, savvy, and ambitious.

So the second reason that I love Generation Xers is because all these adjectives somewhat describe them, and yet no set of adjectives can truly describe the diversity within Generation X.

Generation Xers' unwillingness to be duped by a person just because they hold a position of authority, and their independent thinking and strong convictions comprise the third reason that I love Generation Xers. It's ironic that characteristics that first frustrated me with them, I now consider strengths.

The fourth reason that I love Generation Xers is that they treat their children and careers differently than I did. As one of the oldest of Boomer women, I helped to blaze the trail into male-dominated fields and sacrificed time with my Generation X daughter in the process. So I love Generation Xers because they refuse to make that same sacrifice.

And I love Generation Xers, fifth, because although they are committed not to sacrifice their families to do so, they are achieving success and bettering their lifestyles, in spite of all the predictions to the contrary.

Sixth, I love Generation Xers for their patriotism, their independent spirituality, and many others characteristics that I and many Boomers are growing to appreciate more as Generation Xers take their place in adult society.

Last, but not least, I love Generation Xers because they have the characteristics that their Boomer parents wished for them, just not in the way that their parents imaged. In short, they are the adults that they were reared to be, and the world is better because of them.

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