what generation do you belong to?

Are you part of the Silent Generation (1925-1942), Boom Generation (1943-1960) 13th Generation (1961-1981) or Millenial Generation (1982-2003)

I was born in 1991 and am a Millenial

I was born in 79 though, and the bracket is sometimes 82+, sometimes 78+. But people in the 78-81 period have more in common with millennials than the 13th generation.

Sorry, I'm being bratty.

I just turned "Sweet Sixteee," and I'm feeling feisty.

cohort name for those between X'ers and Millennials.

neighbor had parked in his drive way. I saw one of these types grown up in the late 60's and 70's, my dad would buy a 10 year old car and a week later the guy across the street would have a brand new car sitting in the drive way. Dad would paint the house and a week later the guy across the street would start an addition to his house. I thought it was crazy until I started watching those of my age group doing the same thing as the neighbor.

I also thought it was odd that how school teachers lied about stuff that left many of us later found out that what we were taught had nothing to do with reality. Like the Saginaw river didn't freeze because the current was to swift for ice to form, yet area's a few miles away from the foundries did freeze plus there were books that showed people harvesting ice off the Saginaw river before the area had foundries. I once got chewed out and put out of class for bringing these things up to said teachers.

being grouped with boomers. I have vague and snippets of memories of what was going on in the '60. Sheesh, the way it's categorized my mom and I are in the same generation and that's socially crazy to me. Gen Jones is correct.

than us older boomers, in my opinion. I like Generation Jones. It fits.

:hi:

perhaps the last generation to get a decent education from public schools.

or my friends.

We were in the Civil Rights movement and continue to take on every cause that we can work for ~

and got an excellent public school education.

all the way through four years of college. Maybe later boomers weren't so lucky, I don't know.

I'm on the cusp of X and Millennial.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_boomer

^snip^

The United States Census Bureau considers a baby boomer to be someone born during the demographic birth boom between 1946 and 1964.<8> The Census Bureau is not involved in defining cultural generations.

ps, I'm '45.

Just because the government says boomers include those born between 1960 to 64, doesn't mean it's actually true. Recall how Obama had to defend himself during the Presidential debates because he knew some 60s radical? Obama's reply is that he was ten when all of that happened.

The most famous event of the boomer generation was Woodstock yet we weren't even ten at that time!

Obama's experience symbolizes my experiences: we got blamed for the things that the boomers enjoyed. The half of the boomer generation that didn't include George W. Bush-style a$$holes, really were good. They fought against war and for civil rights.

Yet my generation became adults just when reagan began his war on the middle class. Boomers got pensions, we got the shaft. There were no pensions after the boomers. Of course this became a problem for boomers too.

Let's hope the Obama generation, which includes all Hopeful Democrats, succeeds.

Boomers, after graduation from school and for many the completion of military obligation, began their careers amidst high unemployment, inflation, and wage and price controls under Nixon.

Those Boomers who work public-sector (government) jobs usually have pensions. Few in the private sector have pensions.

BTW I have several rants in my Journal Archive about Reagan and about Obama's criticsm of us and our battles.

generation. how can i be a part of something there was no way i could be a part of it.

Boomers aren't defined by what we shared, but rather by where our parents fit in. The first wave of boomers were the cafe/artist/folksy crowd - I can't relate. I'm a second wave boomer. Schizoid between the Beach Boys & Led Zepplin. The Third wave must be more confused than I am:)

However our parents were all basically Depression/WWII vet era. When the Korean vets came home, I guess that was the beginning of GenX?

1950

You got boomers years' wrong. You left out Gen X and Gen Y. You got the years wrong on Millenials.

Strauss and Howe used in their own research.

Regardless of the age range, however, I am most assuredly in Generation X.



Edit: To add an image that I believe sums up the rest of society's attitude toward our generation rather well.

1952

I don't consider those born after 1955 to be part of my cohort, I don't care what the demographers say.

It was soldiers coming home, and I put that at the end of the war (Pacific), August 1945, so add a few months to get home for the vets with the highest scores, and you get the very first Boomers in late summer of 1946 or early 1947.

My kid is a millenial.

and which I've never heard of.

I forget if they called it Generation X in that book, though the term was being freely used in the very early 90's.

So now, when Howe does presentations, he uses Gen X.

Comin' at you, goin' strong.

(and a child progeny) :evilgrin:

I was born in 1963. Too late to be a boomer, too early to be an Xer.

for instance with the boomer Generation you have the early boomers born 1943-1948. I was born in 1991 so I wasn't alive then but I would assume that these boomers would remember the 1950s and the early 1960s the best. They are the ones who graduated from high school before the storm had come. They are the leaders of the generation.

the mid boomers born 1949-1954 came of age during the "storm" as they would have graduated high school in the late 60s and early 70s

the late boomers born 1955-1960 spent their high school years in the aftermath era which is what I describe the time between US leaving Vietnam in '73 all the way up to the early 80s recession and RR being elected president.

And by the generation dates I see you must be a fellow fan of Strauss and Howe. :hi:

But I don't consider myself silent. I am amply vocal when the occasion merits it.

1961!

;)

Don't blame us :-)

I'm in the "Atari" generation.

Since we're just making shit up anyway...Gen X is probably those born somewhere between 1964 and 1980. However my wife was born in 1964 and kept telling me she was a Boomer; I laughed saying that if you didn't belong to the age group that made the X'ers you had no right to be called a Boomer. However since she and her other 1964 (and 1963 and maybe even 1962) compatriots had no possible involvement in Nam and didn't hit teen years until the late 70's, thus missing the Summer of Love, so the Gen Jones thing fit her. I think perhaps 20 years is just too long time wise to group people in. 10 or 15 years maybe OK because music and TV and movies and historical events can be shared easily by those within a few years difference in age.

If I were to use an actual cultural definition for a generation, that is backed up by some social theory, then I would be a Gen X'er.

However, if I were to use one of the many marketing definitions that categorize those born in the mid-1970's, then it would be either the Pepsi Generation, the Atari Generation, etc.

Identity salience, ultimately, depends on the individual.

I would have to say though that 1975 is a little towards the end of X but most would probably say you would be a gen X'er.

sadly i don't think Pepsi or Atari are really generational labels. They might be nice subsets though. Hell I had an Atari thingy and a Timex Sinclair but I wouldn't say I was of the Timex Sinclair Generation. I even used the phone modems but I wouldn't want to be Gen Phone Modem.

1946-1964 are the boomer years, and that's been true since long before you ever heard of Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y, Millenials or any of the more recently invented terms.

1955.

born in 1953.

Basically we are getting screwed by the old Boomers who simply won't fucking retire and keep holding on to jobs that they get paid too much for and until they either retire or die - we're screwed. Especially the ones with over a 20 or 30 years in the pension system. Jesus I hate them.

AND the Millennials which had older Boomers as super feely over protective and coddling parents; the older X'ers had to typically pack their own lunches and find their own playmates (plus our Boomer parents had a 50% divorce rate - many of the coddled kids are were raised by the "do better this time" older Boomers); they out number us by 20 or so percent plus they mostly had to get (or had bought or simply benefited from grade inflation) masters degrees and feel entitled to be supervisors in their first placement even though they've never managed shit. Hell they even cry (I've seen it myself on several occasions - if you plug them into a well defined task they are awesome - make them improvise and swish! there go the tear ducts!) whenever criticized...it's a joke but annoying too. I did not train to be a psychologist...

I will qualify my Millennial comments with this. They are mostly directed at the ridiculously charmed white kids (usually but not exclusively) with affluent or at least middle class parents of the Boomer or Jones'er generations. Not all mind you but there is study after study popping up now that says their entrance into the workforce is a bitch for X'ers and non privileged (kids that weren't given playdates and grew up with a certain level on economic uncertainty) younger people. They think they are gods and entitled to high pay and responsibility.

They are not either.

I largely escaped this because I spent my teen years as a 2nd parent to my sibs after my parents split (plus my parents were more Gen. Jones than boomer, and very much working class).

But I have a middle management position in the bookstore at a wannabe-Ivy university today, and the attitude you describe is quite prominent both in my direct reports and in the students here. They grew up being praised for every mediocre thing they did, and expect that to continue today. God, I have had LAW students whose mom and dad come with them for orientation, find their textbooks for them, buy their parking pass, and even do their laundry! These students are 22 at the youngest!

and I basically dropped out of the work force 10 years ago when I was 53 to become self-employed. I took early social security last year and don't work at all now, so I'm not tying up anyone's employment niche. I hate generalizations.

I said with over 20 or 30 years (some pensions fully vest at 20 others at 30) in a pension system. Those are folks typically in local, state or federal, government. I know people with almost 40 years in who will be getting almost their entire salary once they pull the trigger. They are taking up needed space, positions, income, healthcare costs, that's my beef.

X

I have common traits of both generations. We who were born in the late 70's early 80's are the link between the 13th and the millennial.

I remember somebody going on about Woodstock. My deadpan response: "Man, I was in third grade."

I'm late x / early millenial.

I am a member of the boomer generation (according to some experts, it ended in 1964, not 1960)
I am a member of generation X (according to other experts)
I am a member of the Generation Jones
I am a member of the 13th generation

I don't really feel a part of any particular generation.

the insipid, derivative "Gen Y" in popularity. I was born in '82, and at our fucking KINDERGARTEN graduation we all had t-shirts proclaiming us the "Class of 2000", so Millenial seems very appropriate.

In fact, the hype surrounding the "Class of 2000" was the main reason Howe uses 1982 as the starting point for the Millenial generation.

When I was coming of age, my mom was a bra burner practicing TM, Carole King's "Tapestry" was the hottest 8 track tape out there, and if you so much as dared call a woman a "bitch" your balls would be swinging from a long stick.

the world in ashes, was not the best of times.

surging growth. We weren't rich but by today's standards we might be considered rich. The cost of living was affordable. Energy and credit were pretty cheap. BUT we were Caucasions and did not suffer the way African Americans and Latinos did. My accident of birth put me in a favored position...

I thought Millenials were 2000-present? Isn't Generation Y start from the the early 80s to 2000?

no home computers. Consumer electronics was radios.


mark

--"My Generation" by the Who

When I was 16, the local band I played in used to cover that song. "Hope I die before I get old."

Well, that was over 40 years ago, and now I have millenial daughters in their twenties. So, what's "old?"
Nowadays, I get asked when I'll retire. I just turned 58, so I figure sometime in the next 30 years or so,
or soon thereafter. I don't like being bored.

My husband is a 13th, born in 1965.

I'm reading "The Fourth Turning" right now...

:woohoo:

I'll stick with the old labels, thanks.

1948 model here

And I never supported or liked Ronald Reagan.

that's me. :)

born in 1957,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx7bXk4N5no

I would love to see the graph on this question. I'm curious as to whether lefties belong more to one generation or another. I SUSPECT that leftist political leanings are all across the board, but it would be nice to see it.

aren't "lefties"...but i'm sure you know that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95_FHHH6qZU

:P

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