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Which Generation Are YOU?

Which Generattion Are YOU?

  • G.I./Greatest Generation, born between 1901 – 1926.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    128
There IS a reason why they use the 'Generation' label. It tends to apply to a significant portion of middle American society...maybe slightly more than half. Of course the risk is that the label gets extended to all and that is as foolish as using the label 'white people' or 'black people'.
 
Wow biased much on those descriptions?

We get it, you're old and aging is uncomfortable. You don't quite understand change, or why your generation is responsible for it being the first time one generation didn't leave a better world for another. We get that you were handed everything by your parents and squandered it away selfishly and want to distract from that by claiming millennials are snow flakes for wanting things like fair pay, housing, food.

We get that. So you can shut the **** up about it already.
:lamo

Awesome.

So...its probably lost on you that your response to a commonly held assessment of 'generations' pretty fairly puts you squarely in the box.
 
I fall in the Millennials category. Like most millennials I find the culture as a whole distasteful. I am ambivalent and so find I meet the counter-culture of my generation well. I have a lot more respect for Gen Z.

The proportion of Boomers does explains a lot of what I see posted. Specifically preference given for filtered journalistic sources over informal raw feeds and discussion.
 
Well this is interesting.

We are at post #29 with 28 people voting in the poll and 57% of respondents are Babyboomers.

6 (21.5%) are Generation X.

5 (18%) are Millennials.

1 (3.5%) are Generation Z.

NOTE: There are a couple of members self-identifying as Generation Y who posted as offended by the Millennial description (taken from the source citation) and appear to have declined to answer.
 
Gen X here too. Boy did the boomers leave a pile of crap.

And flung feces around the place on the way out with the last Presidential election.
 
:lamo

Awesome.

So...its probably lost on you that your response to a commonly held assessment of 'generations' pretty fairly puts you squarely in the box.

It's probably lost on you, that the only people that commonly hold that assessment are ignorant ****s trying to shift the blame from themselves to younger people.

Whoops, crashed the economy and so far reaganomics doesn't work like I was told it would, better double down on my own ignorance and blame it all on young people. The house my parents left me free and clear will have 2 mortgages on it when I die, because **** my kids and grandkids that's why, I need a brand new Truck to show off to the other two old ****s I drink coffee with all day while we complain about the world we ruined and blame it on kids today.

I'm tired of hearing it.

So tired in fact, if there were a vote tomorrow to put everyone over 65 on an iceberg and float their entitled asses out to sea, I'd vote more than once.

Clear it up for ya.
 
I am not going to vote, because this is a truly US poll but in the Netherlands I am at the early point of the "patatgeneratie" which translated means "french fry generation". The generation that eats way too much snack food, does not perform that much (aka, a bit lazy). The generation before generation X.
 
I thought it would be interesting to see which "Generation" members of the Forum (at least those actually actively participating) fall within.

First to simply see the spread of actively participating member's "Generational" categories. (There are many, many who've joined but stopped participating)

Second, to see if various political viewpoints do tend to fall generally within "Generational" categories.

So which do you fall in?

Did I miss the post where you identified which generation you're in?
One thing I know for sure, you're Libertarian-Right, not Left...well certainly "more Right than Left" anyway.
What left wing issues do you support?
 
Did I miss the post where you identified which generation you're in?
One thing I know for sure, you're Libertarian-Right, not Left...well certainly "more Right than Left" anyway.
What left wing issues do you support?

I actually voted in the poll and it is an open poll so you can see who voted for what generation.

In point of fact I consider myself more of a Classical Liberal, but whenever I take "The Political Compass Test" found at this link: https://www.politicalcompass.org/test I land in "Libertarian-Left."

You can also view several of my positions in this blog: https://www.debatepolitics.com/blogs/captain-adverse/1391-time-re-introduce-myself.html

Probably because I believe (among other things like gay marriage, pro-choice, legalization of drugs) there should be a national education standard with a system of public education (that parents can opt their children out of) since I believe that an educated citizen is better able to make informed decisions.

However, over the last couple of decades I have been very disappointed with the educational system, something along the lines that you pointed out with how your daughter has been taught, or should I say "indoctrinated" in falsehoods?
 
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I thought it would be interesting to see which "Generation" members of the Forum (at least those actually actively participating) fall within.

First to simply see the spread of actively participating member's "Generational" categories. (There are many, many who've joined but stopped participating)

Second, to see if various political viewpoints do tend to fall generally within "Generational" categories.


NOTE: The categories have been pre-determined by a couple of sources:

Generation Naming: What Came Before Millennials and Founders | Time

and:

The Six Living Generations In America

Here are the Options:

1. G.I./Greatest Generation, born between 1901 – 1926. "Children of the WWI generation & fighters in WWII & young in the Great Depression…all leading to strong models of teamwork to overcome and progress."

2. Mature/Silent Generation, born between 1927 – 1945. "Went through their formative years during an era of suffocating conformity, but also during the postwar happiness; Korean and Vietnam War generation."

3. Baby Boomers, born between 1946 – 1964. "1. The save-the-world revolutionaries of the ’60s and ’70s; and 2. The party-hardy career climbers (Yuppies) of the ’70s/’80s. The 'Me' Generation."

4. Generation X, born between 1965 – 1980. "The “latch-key kids” grew up street-smart but isolated, often with divorced or career-driven parents. Government and big business mean little to them. Want to save the neighborhood, not the world."

5. Generation Y/ Millennials, born between 1981 – 2000. "They have been told over and over again that they are special, and they expect the world to treat them that way. They do not live to work, they prefer a more relaxed work environment with a lot of hand holding and accolades."

6. Generation Z/ Boomlets, born after 2001. "In 2006 there were a record number of births in the US and 49% of those born were Hispanic, this will change the American melting pot in terms of behavior and culture. They have never known a world without computers and cell phones. Have Eco-fatigue: they are actually tired of hearing about the environment and the many ways we have to save it."

So which do you fall in?

You might have gotten a greater response if you had not chosen a source with such exaggerated negative descriptions of all but the very oldest Americans. This can be seen in action beginning on the second page of your thread. There is really no need for such intergenerational antagonism. I certainly know the year I was born, but reject the description, so did not participate in the poll.

Just for info, Psychology Today has also a slightly more positive view of the many different characteristics of the generations: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-truisms-wellness/201602/baby-boomers-generation-z
 
You might have gotten a greater response if you had not chosen a source with such exaggerated negative descriptions of all but the very oldest Americans. This can be seen in action beginning on the second page of your thread. There is really no need for such intergenerational antagonism. I certainly know the year I was born, but reject the description, so did not participate in the poll.

Just for info, Psychology Today has also a slightly more positive view of the many different characteristics of the generations: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-truisms-wellness/201602/baby-boomers-generation-z

Well, I am not a "psychologist" thus not all that motivated to be "touchy-feely."

I used the first two cites pulled up when I searched "generation names" and the most iconic descriptions from each of the citations for each generation.

While there was no intended "insult" there was also no impetus to be "P.C." I can see not voting if the basic question is clearly biased (i.e. the selections themselves reflect a clear bias).

However, I find it interesting that taking offense at some pretty typical descriptors in the body of the OP (rather than either laughing them off or commenting about it while voting as some did) would prevent someone from participating. I myself have participated in a number of polls in the Forum where the BODY of the OP was massively biased, but the selections allowed for a reasonable vote.

Maybe I should have used the "offended Generation" instead, since it seems some members get offended by everything. :shrug:
 
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Generation X...
 
Thank God I wasn't born a few months later.
 
Gen X here. I think all those generational descriptors are stupid and wrong.
 
I actually voted in the poll and it is an open poll so you can see who voted for what generation.

In point of fact I consider myself more of a Classical Liberal, but whenever I take "The Political Compass Test" found at this link: https://www.politicalcompass.org/test I land in "Libertarian-Left."

You can also view several of my positions in this blog: https://www.debatepolitics.com/blogs/captain-adverse/1391-time-re-introduce-myself.html

Probably because I believe (among other things like gay marriage, pro-choice, legalization of drugs) there should be a national education standard with a system of public education (that parents can opt their children out of) since I believe that an educated citizen is better able to make informed decisions.

However, over the last couple of decades I have been very disappointed with the educational system, something along the lines that you pointed out with how your daughter has been taught, or should I say "indoctrinated" in falsehoods?

The public school system didn't indoctrinate her, they didn't give her enough.
The indoctrination in falsehoods has been at the hands of social media shared by her peers...to be specific: "Hitler was a liberal/Nazism is socialism" and "not invented here".

The reason you can't reconcile your "classical liberal" positions is because for the most part, classical liberals are pretty much today's right wing libertarians. That doesn't automatically mean you're lining up to congratulate ALEC or cheering for the Koch Brothers, but you may have more in common with Rand Paul than you think, and he's no liberal.

But what puts you in the Libertarian Left category is that you would like to see the nation do better in public education, maybe even higher education. I agree. You should consider coming over to the dark side. As another liberal on DP keeps saying, "We have cookies". (yum)

After all, you can always harangue us about all our stupid social justice warriors and push us to adopt a more friendly attitude toward the second amendment. Some of us are more okay with the 2A than you might believe.

The reason I never became a libertarian is because I know that GOOD government doesn't necessarily have to be HUGE but if it's good and well run, it can do some stuff that individuals can't to HELP individuals...heavy lifting.
I realize that libertarians aren't fans of heavy lifting because they worry that Uncle Sam will come around with onerous regulations. But consider the fact that the entire South isn't still on kerosene lamps and the Interstate System exists because Uncle Sam got involved. Meanwhile, some of our biggest adversaries can't get between two of their biggest cities without negotiating frozen swamps or untamed stretches of cruel desert.

Oh wait, you are PARTLY CORRECT!
The Texas public schools left my daughter (and my son) with almost ZERO US and World History but four years of Texas History, most of it taught from the Lost Cause perspective...and the "teach the controversy" perspective about Creationism.
 
Well, I am not a "psychologist" thus not all that motivated to be "touchy-feely."

I used the first two cites pulled up when I searched "generation names" and the most iconic descriptions for each generation.

While there was no intended "insult" there was also no impetus to be "P.C."

I find it interesting that taking offense at some pretty typical descriptors (rather than either laughing them off or commenting about it while voting as some did) would prevent someone from participating.

Interesting that in your view "Psychologist" leads directly to "touchy-feely" In fact a definition:
A psychologist studies normal and abnormal mental states from cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior by observing, interpreting, and recording how individuals relate to one another and to their environments.[
As such, I think they might be well qualified to describe generational behavior. Sociologists probably better qualified, but the very word tends to set off a huge segment of the population. I do see how in our country the ideas of a Marketing guru would be given higher status unfortunately.

"Pretty typical" descriptors used to mock others are not helpful. You can see how that worked by looking at some of the posts that followed.

Maybe a little PC might help in understanding other generations a bit better. Unfortunately I lost my last living relative from the Greatest Generation recently. I have living relatives representing all the other generations, and think they are all fine people, all mocked a bit by the Market Teacher.
 
One thing I know for sure, you're Libertarian-Right, not Left...well certainly "more Right than Left" anyway.
Forget the nuance, I am not even sure labels are grasping underlying themes these days. I without fail fall on any political gage or test I've taken test almost dead centre(independent), this despite not shying away from strong positions. When there is a lean it is libertarian - social right. That is with one exception: Pew's Political Typology Quiz which put me on its farthest right group: Core Conservative. And of those who I feel best reflect my similar views the journalistic labels tends to be "right" / "far right", sometimes but not always distinguishing from ethnonationalist / alt-right types.

With all the new information available today, I think we gotten far too complex and nuanced for social left - right | authoritarian <-> libertarian. After all, I likely have more disagreement with radical libertarian than moderate authoritarian. There is little I disagree with progressives in terms of stated principles, it's all down to our polar opposite methods of implementation. And I'd support a fiscally sound authoritarian social progressive over a fiscally wreckless authoritarian social conservative any day of the week.

I blame us millennials (the new generation of journalists) failing to learn what a label means before using it in common parlance. OR maybe it was the boomers flipping 'liberals' from meaning 'social reformer' to the "cultural conservative" of norms of today, making traditional conservatives "social reformers". Of course "the radicals" constant rebrands from progressives, to socialists,to marxists, to anarcists,to communists, to libertarian-left.... Just makes it all that much more confusing. So who really knows :confused:
 
When the use of generation letters started to be used it was dumb to use X, Y and Z. What letter are generations born in 2021 (and beyond) going to be assigned?

Also odd is that generations contain a variable number of years.

If we don't work to reduce the significant growth in global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions in 2017, we can call them 'Generation C02'
 
Forget the nuance, I am not even sure labels are grasping underlying themes these days. I without fail fall on any political gage or test I've taken test almost dead centre(independent), this despite not shying away from strong positions. When there is a lean it is libertarian - social right. That is with one exception: Pew's Political Typology Quiz which put me on its farthest right group: Core Conservative. And of those who I feel best reflect my similar views the journalistic labels tends to be "right" / "far right", sometimes but not always distinguishing from ethnonationalist / alt-right types.

With all the new information available today, I think we gotten far too complex and nuanced for social left - right | authoritarian <-> libertarian. After all, I likely have more disagreement with radical libertarian than moderate authoritarian. There is little I disagree with progressives in terms of stated principles, it's all down to our polar opposite methods of implementation. And I'd support a fiscally sound authoritarian social progressive over a fiscally wreckless authoritarian social conservative any day of the week.

I blame us millennials (the new generation of journalists) failing to learn what a label means before using it in common parlance. OR maybe it was the boomers flipping 'liberals' from meaning 'social reformer' to the "cultural conservative" of norms of today, making traditional conservatives "social reformers". Of course "the radicals" constant rebrands from progressives, to socialists,to marxists, to anarcists,to communists, to libertarian-left.... Just makes it all that much more confusing. So who really knows :confused:

LOL, now I think I "get" you.
Ever hear of "The Horseshoe Theory"?
 
From 1940's, early therein, but hardly silent. But somehow I can't rise to violent protest. Still.....being non-violent does NOT mean silent.
 
Generation Y here, I feel like we are the ones that care about what the other people have to say.
 
We're at Post 50.

The counts are getting more mixed. 45 voted in the poll.

17 (38%) are Babyboomers

16 (36%) are Generation X.

11 (24%) are Generation Y/Millennials.

1 (2 %) is Generation Z/Boomlets.


I don't think we'll be hearing from anyone in the Silent Generation, and clearly unlikely for the GI/Greatest Generation. We'll see.
 
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