One of the defining factors of Generation X is the transitions resulting from the decline of
colonial imperialism to the fall of the
Berlin Wall and the end of the
Cold War[citation needed]. Another more prevalent factor is a bell curve bottoming out in American births from 1965 through 1975
[1], after the American
baby boom from 1946 to 1964. A small, often "invisible generation" in the wake of the socially-reconstructing baby boomers, those born in the U.S. between 1964 (often 1961:
see Coupland and Strauss and Howe, below) and 1980 (sometimes 1981) received the "X" tag for lack of a defining social identity
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