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which generation group are you from?
Posted by alvintlh • 9/12/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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which generation group are you from?
1) Generation Y (born 1982 – 1995)
2) Generation X (born 1961 – 1981)
3) Baby Boomers (born 1943 – 1960)
4) The Best Generation (born 1925 – 1941)
5) The Lost Generation (born 1880 – 1900)
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Where did you get those dates? To the best of my knowledge, the Baby Boom generation began in 1946, after WWII ended. That is when the births started spiralling upwards as the troops returned home, married, and began having families. In 1943 there was a global war on and the men were off at war...the birth rate did not start "booming" until after they got home.
I have most often seen the end of the Baby Boom cited as circa 1965, the time we leading edge Baby Boomers entered adulthood and our parents, reaching their 40s, cut back on baby production.-
I've seen different years as well .. (1946-1964)
e.g. www.u-s-history.com/pages/h2061.html
Although, I like Deloitte's perspective (being an accountant myself) who would consider myself more part of the "gen-X" group, than the "boomies" group since I am circa '63. I guess i have both group's characteristics thrust upon me.
Boomies: Competitive; Optimistic; Driven to achieve goals; Focused on their children; Judgmental of differing opinions; Political
GenX: Skeptical; Pragmatic; Adaptable; Self-Reliant; Informal; Technoliterate; Diversity-Minded; Focused on today
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My father ended his time in the army in late 1945. He was demobilised, returned to Melbourne, got married, went back to university and had a cluster of babies, all before 1955.
I am definitely a Baby Boomer and have all the characteristics of children born in that particular decade:
*pro-peace,
*anti-military,
*leftish politics,
*very concerned about having stable careers, often in teaching, the helping professions or public service.
*want to live near our parents/children/grandchildren,
*use public transport,
*turn off the lights and heating, when leaving a room
*don't like to waste food etc.
The generation ended in 1959. From 1960 on, at least in this country, the birth rate returned to "normal" pre-war numbers.-
Thanks for posting tour description Hel's. That's the generation I belong to. I would add these characteristics as well:
* back to the landers
* simple and very frugal lifestyle
* grow and/or raise your own food
* barter for goods and services
* prefer reading to TV
* homeschool your own kids and/or participate in childcare exchange groups - not day care
* politically active at the local and regional level
* heavily involved in charitable work and volunteerism
* environmentally conscious
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In the context of the phrase "baby boom," the meaning of "boom" is "a sudden increase."
This did not occur until after the war came to a close and the troops began returning home and starting families. VE Day was in May, 1945; VJ Day was in August 1945. By the most generous calculations (assuming some lucky serviceman was sent home on VE Day and started his family before the end of the month) the first baby of the boom could not have been born before February 1946.
When it ended is not so clearly defined, but is usually placed approximately 20 years out, give or take a year or two, when the Boomers began their own families.
I'm having to take Deloitte's report with a HUGE grain of salt because not only do they have the opening years of the boom grossly wrong, their definition of Boomers don't seem terribly accurate to me. I'm a Boomer, I grew up with them, worked and associated with them and the description given for GenX is MUCH more descriptive of the Boomers I grew up with...Deloitte's description sounds like my parents' generation. I really have to support Hels' description...that is much more like the Boomerism I experienced in California (with the exception of the public transport thing...impossible in most of Cali at that time).-
Oops, this comment belongs below.
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I'm smack dab in the middle of GenX.-
As am I. The applicable terms that PetLvr posted above work pretty well for me, although I'd like to see the source. We can't be all good, right?
(I suspect that considering "skeptical" to be a positive trait proves my Gen-X credentials.) -
I'd read before that GenX tends to be fairly cynical-- which I would agree with.
We grew up basically expecting that the Cold War would last forever, that there was a big chance of nuclear bombs being launched at us, and we knew when we graduated we probably wouldn't be able to get a decent job due to the unemployment, so we should take what we could get. -
ThriftShopRomantic, as you say, everyone is definitely a product of the era in which they grew up.
You thought the cold war would last forever. My mother, who grew up during the depression, thought peoples' jobs could disappear overnight and the children would go hungry. She still darns laddered stockings and recycles used envelopes, to this day.
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I am the last of the X men.-
You're a man?!
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X men are women too!
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OOPS! moved - see Hel's description above.
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Near the end of the Best Generation - born 1938. I had a Tom Sawyer childhood in a small Ozark town of about 900 population. Caves. Clear water streams. Bluffs to climb. Woods to explore. Lightning Bugs to chase at twilight. Pulled kid's wagon to pick up scrap iron to help our fathers and uncles whip the Japs and Germans. Went to Saturday afternoon westerns movies. (pre-TV) Said "m'amn" to ladies, "sir" to men. Popped our popcorn at home and put in brown paper bag to take to movies. Bathed in tin bathtubs. Used outhouse. (old Sears catalogues for toliet paper) Rode stick horses. Picked vegetables from garden and eggs from chicken house for meals. Helped feed milk cows and helped mother carry milk buckets to and from barn. Read by kerosene lamps after dark. Brought in kindling for heating stove and cook stove in the morning. No strangers. Knew everyone in town.-
Although we are separated in age by many years, that also describes my childhood as I was raised in the bush and on farms. I did not experience electricity and running water until I was almost a teen.
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Where do the troglodytes fit in? I'm one of them.-
I'm with the Werewolves and other mythical monsters.
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I was born in 1966 and my sister was born in 1973. She and I grew up in entirely different cultures, and there seems to me to be a very significant difference in mindset, world view, work habits, life goals, personal relationships and virtually everything else I can think of between her classmates and mine. I don't know exactly at what point the shift took place, or whether it was gradual or abrupt, but I definitely believe that it was some time in that window, much later than most "official" designations place the beginning of GenX.-
I absolutely agree with you. My first two children were born in 1965 and 1966...my third in 1973. That last one is SO different from the other two...they could have been born 20 years apart. Their orientations, expectations...everything you describe...are different.
When I finally caught on that it was not just a "kid" difference but a "kid culture" difference, I began to realize just how much influence a child's peers have...much more than parents or older siblings. -
Rivy, timethief, MadameX and SweetViolet, agreed.
It goes to show that The Generation into which we were born was not the only determinant of our behaviour and values. Rural Vs urban upbringing might have been equally persuasive, or birth order or gender.
Australia didn't get television until the Olympic Games of Dec 1956. Even in the late 50s, most ordinary families couldn't afford to buy a tv. So the children in the street were all invited into the one wealthy family that had this amazing object, to watch a half hour programme on schoolnights at 7PM - Lassie, Texas Rangers, Whirlybirds, Zorro, Noddy and Bigears.
I think that no television for the first half of childhood, and almost no television for the second half of childhood, had a huge impact on the behaviour and values of Baby Boomers here.
The Vietnam War was a more significant determinant of political values, volunteering, social activeness but Baby Boomers were at least 18 or 20 by then, and childhood was over.
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Generation Y! Nirvana is the band of Generation Y -
I'm a total Gen X
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Me too.
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I'm from generation Y ^_^ -
Generation Y (February 1983) -
Generation Z. I feel like I am 14 again -
I'm an X (& even remember when we used to be called the "me" generation.) -
Generation X baby! -
Anyone here born after 1995? Generation Z is for people born after 1995.
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By the way, I am from Generation X.
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Generation X -
I heard this story on British tv. I hope it is true.
An older man married a much younger woman, much to his contemporaries' amazement and delight. When they divorced after a few years, his comtemporaries said to him "Alf, what is the matter with you? She is young, sexy, energetic, attractive and looks super in a bathing suit!"
Answered Alfred sadly: "Yes, but she doesn't know our tunes". -
Generation X - 1974 Grew up in the age of riding in the very back of a station wagon on roadtrips, sharing a walkman with my sisters and brother and can remember having TV's without remote controls. Our first computer had three hard drives and a six inch monitor, we reluctantly weaned ourselves off Beta video tapes and on to VHS the A-Team was probably the most violent television show - except NOBODY ever died! -
What if you were born in 1942? Deloitte says your screwed?
BTW, that's not me, I'm smack in the middle of X. -
Why is it that all of the generational descriptions sound 90% the same?
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I am at the tail end of the the notorious baby boomers. My view of the world is completely different then those who were born at the beginning of the boom.. lol!
When I was young we rode around in a station wagon with the wooden look on the sides, no one had to wear seatbelts, in fact there wasn't any in the back seat, infants rode on mommies lap.
We had awesome drive in theaters, which I wish they would bring back.
The very first computer I ever saw was when I was in the 2nd grade and we went on a field trip to see the computer which filled a room about a quarter size of a foot ball field. With lights blinking all around the top.. I remember them printing out on long, wide attached sheets of paper, a picture of a girl posed in a bikini with little dots,after spending 5 hours entering the codes into the computer. The best way to show everyone what I am talking about is to tell you to watch the movie "The Computer who wore tennis shoes starring Kurt Russell"
I grew up in hip hugger, bell bottom jeans. My childhood was during the flower power, free love, hippie days. Where it was cool to wear huge sunglasses, stringy long hair, and tattered hip hugger jeans covered with embroidered hearts and peace signs and tie-died t-shirts pulled up and knotted so your midriff showed, with tennis shoes or flip flops, but mostly bare footed. D
I stand amazed at how much has changed since I was a child. In such a short time the world is completely different! -
I enjoy your story.
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Generation Awesome. I am the last surviving human on the planet. I traveled back in time from the year 5004, to try and stop the zombie wars of 2013 from happening. -
I am from the Boomer.. except
- the years are from Gen X
- don't have a baby boom to speak of
But I bought in to the boomer philosophy of saving electricity etc and I feel that's he way to go even now -
I'm a boomer too.
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