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Differences between someone born in 87 vs 89?

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I was born in early 1989 and i would be interested to know what some of the differences between someone born in 87 and 89 would be, could someone born in 87 themselves perhaps chime in for an answer????
 
#2 · (Edited)
Uh, the same difference between a 97 and 99 year old, 07 and 09 year old and anyone else with a 2 year age difference?

I'm definitely not in the late 80s born age range, but I could give some input from a more general standpoint.

People born in 87 experienced the 90s in its entirety from young children to young tweens. They, along with '86ers and '88ers are quintessential 90s children- meaning they likely remember the 90s decade from start to finish. An '89er, on the other hand, is unlikely to remember the early years of the decade except '92 or maybe '91. In fact, I should maybe change the '88ers and place them with the '89ers. The chances of an '88er not remembering '90 is equal to the chance of a '89er not remembering '91- and '90 is a part of the 90s after all.

However, when it comes to teen years and youth, late 80s babies all graduated/came of age around the mid-late 00s, so those life years wouldn't be all that different.

If you're asking the question for relationship purposes, nothing should really be stopping you, age wise. Obviously now there isn't really a difference between yourself, an '89er, and a '87er. two. Y'all are both gonna be 30 and 32 this year, the same 'decade age'. People 2+/- years your age are full adults well into the work world, starting families (or thinking of doing so). In terms of pop culture, you guys are well out of its audience (b/c Gen Z has currently taken that place) but as Millennials, you guys are today's pop culture leaders for Generation Z.

I can't really speak for you guys , however, because as I've stated, I am not part of this cohort. I'm making assumptions based on past connections between 90s and 00s borns, when they grew up, came of age, etc (since that's my cohort).
 
#4 ·
I was born in early 73, my vivid memory starts at about age 3-1/2. My wife was born in late 78, she remembers back to about 1981. It's a 5-1/2 year age gap. I remember hippies and disco still in their prime, she doesn't remember any of it. There is an entire set of cultures changed out or ended in that small age gap, thinks that she never knew first hand.

I was a teenager in the era's discussed so I remember them well, a lot of cultural changes happened in the late 80's and early 90's. The fall of communism, the first gulf war, the tail end of Reaganomics (during Bush #1), the Bloods and Crips, end of punk rock as a and the beginning of alternative music. Rap also became far more popular as it crossed into pop culture, MC hammer, gheto/gangster rap became more popular.

Most of what I described happened in the gap that might exist between two individuals born in 1987 vs 1989 respectively.

Just being raised in a different place or under different values is enough to build such a gap though, and individuals experience life and process the "world" differently when young, so large gaps can exist irrespective of age difference.

We can all read a history book or watch a biography to learn about this stuff, but there is no replacement for seeing, feeling, smelling and living in the time any culturally significant event occurred.
 
#5 ·
87 borns are more likely to have some "adult" experience before the financial crisis started in 2008. In terms of Strauss-Howe generational theory, both are however firmly Civic (millennial). 1985 seems to be the last year to have some Nomadic (Xer) traits.

If you are considering a relationship, 30 and 32 are virtually the same.
 
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I'm old enough to think this is crazy insignificant though an especially bright or alert '87 might remember Perestroika because of it extending into the early 90s. I remember all this stuff but I'm early 80s. However, I'm apparently not "supposed to" remember what I do, so YMMV.

Two years is nothing. I mean people concerned about just two years of age difference shouldn't be born earlier than 1996 at this point.
 
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Two years is a drop in the bucket that it really doesn't matter as both ages are old enough to have witnessed/experienced the same big events with some exceptions depending where one was living at the time.
 
#24 ·
Difference between 87 and 89

87 can remember the 80s if lucky, can start preschool in the 80s, and left infancy in the 80s; 89 cant remember the 90s, and in 91 only they left infancy and could start preschool;

similarities: both had most of their childhood in the 90s, and were in secondary school when 9/11 happened
 
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