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I'm 1965 so borderline Gen X and Baby Boomer. I've always felt more Baby Boomer, maybe because I had older parents. Both were Depression babies. Mom was 32 when she had me, I was her firstborn, unusual for that time.
Cool thread! I see my age group is the majority here.
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Originally Posted by ratherbcrazycatlady
Gen X.
Has anyone been watching the current "Survivor" ? It's Gen X vs Millennials. Interesting the different ways they go about challenges.
When Probst asked a Gen X: 'What's a big difference between the 2?" He answered: "Our generation didn't get participation trophies, we either won or we lost...and learned something from it."
Technology has caused the biggest gap between these 2, more than anything in generations throughout history. IMO.
Hunter - it was called the "Baby Boom" for a reason!
Catlady - I somewhat disagree with you about the differences between X and Y (Millennials). I was a teenager in the 1980s (Generation X) and me and my brother grew up with cable television, computer games like Atari and Intellivision for the TV, early computers like the Commodore 128 and even the start of the internet called Q-Link (later AOL). I even had computer programming in high school.
In contrast, my father who was born in 1941, did not even have television until the mid 1950s. Television was around earlier then that but not everyone had it. Instead he remembers they listened to the radio at night and played cards. To this day my father is a great card player and also for some reason, a great pool player too! We cannot beat him.
There needs to be a category for around 1960 (maybe 1955-1965) who are not really "Baby Boomers" any more or "Generation X" yet... Richard Hell's "Blank Generation".
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Originally Posted by reneeh63
Tail-end Boomer...and I really don't feel like I fit...
there was a good book written about those of us born in the very last years of the boomer generation..... the author called us Generation Jones because we have always been trying to catch up to the prosperity of those born earlier in the boom.....
It is said that Jonesers were given huge expectations as children in the 1960s, and then confronted with a different reality as they came of age during a long period of mass unemployment and when de-industrialization arrived full force in the mid to late 1970s and 1980s, leaving them with a certain unrequited "jonesing" quality for the more prosperous days in the past.
The Silent Generation...must be why they're always saying be quiet and don't make any waves...
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