We all know how old you have to be to get a beer in the U.S. The rule is so hard and fast, bars post the exact date (21 years prior to the current day) to determine who can place an order on a given night. But placing a birth year within a tidy set of generational characteristics? That's a trickier concept. Yet whichever generation you fall into comes with its own set of consequences.
Gen X? You're the savvy and skeptical one. Millennials? Congrats, you've been called a narcissist so many times, you're now embarrassed by it. These labels stick, along with a host of other assigned generational habits and trends. But a growing number of researchers are finding that generational stereotypes don't hold up to scrutiny.
