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Members of this generation share traits with both Generation X and Millennials. They have a relationship with both analog and digital technology. While they may have listened to records and used a typewriter as children, Cassie McClure writing for Las Cruces Sun-News says they were the first group of students to have access to personal computers and the Internet.
As they began to enter the workforce, their choices were impacted by the events of September 11 and the Iraq war. Nathan Heller writing for The New Yorker described older Millennials as follows: "People coming of age in that era of inevitable evils tend to be conservative in their life-style ideals...having reached adulthood on unstable ground, they’re opportunistic entrepreneurs, restless climbers, and deferential compromisers"
Many who identify with this generation do so because they don't feel that the typical definitions of Generation X and Millennial are the correct fit for their place in the world.
Millenial married to another millenial but I always feel weird that 1981 and above are included in the millenial generation... born in 1982 myself, and so if my wife.
by the cutoff dates, I'm silent generation, but that's the wrong term. Back when it was invented, it applied to only the first 2/3 of that time span. The kids who were born from 1942 forward, into the early 50's, are much more of a mixed bag. Some are Silent Generation, others are Boomers.
It shows up in life attitudes more than age alone. The Aging Hippies were, by and large, born in 1944-48, right along with the members of the Tea Party. The Tea Partiers are just a few years older, very generally speaking.
The political and social division came along later, beginning in the mid-60s, and caused by 2 things; marijuana and Viet Nam. Both changed American culture in greater ways than anything else in 3 decades.
It is interesting that the Greatest Generation in America, those who fought for freedom in World War II, are considered part of the Silent Generation. I am a 1946er.
Well, it's easy to see why this country is screwed up by looking at this poll, too many of you born after '45 !
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