What's your generation?

[Sweden]

I'm sure we've done this one before but there seems to be some generational tension in some threads at the moment. Where do you fall? And what do you think of the other ones?

I'm not including the years for each generation in the poll because even though we generally know what they are, they sometimes seem to vary by source and if you're on the cusp it's more of a self-identification thing anyway.

Assigning people to a patricular 'generation' is pointless and devoid of meaning. Seems to only happen in the US - now why is that? Not as bad, though, as trying to place them in those non-existent things, races.

 

[Trippy Trekker]

As a Baby Boomer, IKE Era 1956 newborn, my mother raised me using Dr. Benjamin Spock's popular book "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Spock

 

[Docthehun]

I turn 65 next month and my experience is that every group has a mixture of just about everything; good, bad and everything in between. I'm a firm believer that mindset is way more important than age. I don't fear getting old or dying and wouldn't go back for any amount of money. Today, I'm on this side of the dirt and in the grand scheme of things, that's all that really counts. I think the most important thing is to be yourself and don't worry about what everybody else thinks. Personally, I'm just fine in my own skin and it doesn't matter that it's kid size by most measures.

 

[WCH]

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But Martha is a Boomer?

 

[ecofarm]

But Martha is a Boomer?

A cougar.

 

[WCH]

Here's the data from the poll with 56 respondents. I used the international red/blue color scheme instead of the flip-flopped American colors.
Gray is moderate/centrist and white is undefined/private/other.

In other words--water is wet.

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Notice a trend here? Older = smarter

 

[WCH]

A cougar.

Ha! that also.

 

[Surrealistik]

Here's the data from the poll with 56 respondents. I used the international red/blue color scheme instead of the flip-flopped American colors.
Gray is moderate/centrist and white is undefined/private/other.

In other words--water is wet.

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You can put me down as red.

 

[JMR]

My first new car was a 1976 Trans Am.Bought it right out of the showroom

I bought a 1975 Pontiac Firebird out of the showroom. Fell in love with the lime green color, and white interior. Have to say it was the crappiest car I ever owned.

Hope you have fonder memories of your Trans Am.

 

[Docthehun]

I bought a 1975 Pontiac Firebird out of the showroom. Fell in love with the lime green color, and white interior. Have to say it was the crappiest car I ever owned.

Hope you have fonder memories of your Trans Am.

Had a black 78 w/"T" top and the big bird. Tons of power but rode like an old west wagon. It spent most of its time parked in a garage. Bought it from a young gal before it got re-poed and later essentially gave it back to her. She promptly wrapped it around a power pole which I felt was a fitting end for a "crappiest car ever". The car was totaled and my little gal emerged without a scratch.

 

[SDET]

Silent Generation or Greatest Generation; I have a great appreciation for what they did in their lifetimes.
Baby Boomer; We were the worst generations of parents ever. probably why gen X is so quiet, lol.
Generation X; I think they will do the most good when their time cones.
Millennial ; Not impressed. They however have plenty of time to come into their own.
The one after Millennials; Don't know enough about them to make any comments.

I'm a Boomer with Gen Z children. Gen Z is more conservative on some issues than you would expect. Specifically, my kids peers are more independent and more inclined to believe that people should solve their problems than one might expect.

 

[Nap]

Gen X was the latchkey generation. A time when the focus was on adults not children.

I lean toward "just more visible" in general on social ills. That could be due to media coverage and or circumstances changing.

That is kind of my point. We went from latchkey to helicopter parenting.

I certainly agree that media plays a significant role in contributing and over exaggerating social ills especially with this new click bait style of journalism.

While the average kid is great, I think at the extremes is where you really see the differences in GenX and Millennials. Mass shootings and Trigglypuff syndrome seems to be a real issue for the younger generations.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

I'm 19, so I'm a Generation Z'er.

Holy Jeezus, you are quite "woke-AF" and put together for nineteen. Hats off to you, Miss Governess.

 

[ecofarm]

That is kind of my point. We went from latchkey to helicopter parenting.

I certainly agree that media plays a significant role in contributing and over exaggerating social ills especially with this new click bait style of journalism.

While the average kid is great, I think at the extremes is where you really see the differences in GenX and Millennials. Mass shootings and Trigglypuff syndrome seems to be a real issue for the younger generations.

I should note my claims came from the article I cited earlier, but I find them accurate.

It's an interesting study. I've studied a sub-topic, inter-generational justice. I didn't get into it enough for the implications of anthropological variation in generation, mostly law, civil rights and variations in elderly social care.

 

[JMR]

Had a black 78 w/"T" top and the big bird. Tons of power but rode like an old west wagon. It spent most of its time parked in a garage. Bought it from a young gal before it got re-poed and later essentially gave it back to her. She promptly wrapped it around a power pole which I felt was a fitting end for a "crappiest car ever". The car was totaled and my little gal emerged without a scratch.

Glad she was OK. The car was so powerful but used to fishtail on the ice or snow. It was a disaster. My boyfriend at the time slid it into a pole. I was in passenger seat and saw the front end accordion up to the windshield. Had the body work done, got a new boyfriend. lol. The car's transmission was totally shot at 50,000 miles. The mechanic told me that was how long they were built to last. It was sure pretty though.

 

[The Mark]

I'm sure we've done this one before but there seems to be some generational tension in some threads at the moment. Where do you fall? And what do you think of the other ones?

I'm not including the years for each generation in the poll because even though we generally know what they are, they sometimes seem to vary by source and if you're on the cusp it's more of a self-identification thing anyway.

My birth year falls in the somewhat gray area where they start calling people Millennials, so I'm either Gen X or a Millennial.
Technically, I'm unsure.

Actually, I consider myself a millennial.

 

[Greenbeard]

You forgot one -- Xennials.

Which Generation are You?
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[TH="align: left"]Generation Name[/TH]
[TH="align: left"]Births Start[/TH]
[TH="align: left"]Births End[/TH]
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[TR]
[TD]Baby Boomer Generation[/TD]
[TD]1946[/TD]
[TD]1964[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD]Generation X (Baby Bust)[/TD]
[TD]1965[/TD]
[TD]1979[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD]Xennials[/TD]
[TD]1975[/TD]
[TD]1985[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Millennials Generation Y, Gen Next[/TD]
[TD]1980[/TD]
[TD]1994[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

"Xennials" looks like it wash shoe-horned in after its successor generation was defined and, as far as I know, isn't widely recognized (since the years defining it aren't unique). But given that I've never heard of that classification, I guess it would be interesting to know if there are people out there self-identifying as an Xennial.

 

[beerftw]

I'm sure we've done this one before but there seems to be some generational tension in some threads at the moment. Where do you fall? And what do you think of the other ones?

I'm not including the years for each generation in the poll because even though we generally know what they are, they sometimes seem to vary by source and if you're on the cusp it's more of a self-identification thing anyway.

The generation thing is kinda a gray area, I was born in 1986, and depending on whose definition is used I would fall under generation x and mellinial, as no one has a unified definition, heck some of the baby boomer generation from the 50's are considered generation x, if you want a poll you need to define the standard, as no one seems to have a unified answer.

 

[molten_dragon]

I'm a very early millennial. In a lot of ways I have as much in common with Gen X as I do with other millennials.

I'm not a big fan of what Baby Boomers have done to the country in general, but I know plenty who are nice people. I think it's important not to generalize generations too much.

 

[iliveonramen]

Gen X was the latchkey generation. A time when the focus was on adults not children.

I lean toward "just more visible" in general on social ills. That could be due to media coverage and or circumstances changing.

I'm an early millennial/tail end of Gen X. There's no doubt that parenting has changed a lot. I grew up latchkey and watching parents now set up play dates with kids...it's very foreign to my childhood. There's no doubt that parents have taken a much more active role in their kids lives.

 

[ecofarm]

I'm an early millennial/tail end of Gen X. There's no doubt that parenting has changed a lot. I grew up latchkey and watching parents now set up play dates with kids...it's very foreign to my childhood. There's no doubt that parents have taken a much more active role in their kids lives.

At 7 I was jumping off low bridges and swimming across lakes with friends and no adult supervision, a 13 year old kept everything under control. It is different today.

We might note that our latchkey gatekeepers were not daycares, nannys and other supervised activities. They were slightly older children.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

The generation thing is kinda a gray area, I was born in 1986, and depending on whose definition is used I would fall under generation x and mellinial, as no one has a unified definition, heck some of the baby boomer generation from the 50's are considered generation x, if you want a poll you need to define the standard, as no one seems to have a unified answer.

The funny thing is, decades don't really start on time either, and I'm sure lots of people recognize this.
American Graffiti is a story set in 1962, however 1962 was still the 1950's. People were still sock hopping, necking and waiting for The Beatles to shatter the calm blue waters of Bill Haley's kingdom, and doo wopping was still in vogue.

Leon Russell took command of the rock concert scene in 1972 with his rock and roll preacher tent revival show known as "Leon Live" and became the top grossing arena act of the year but in the minds of most people, it was still The Sixties.

My own little blues band was the star attraction at a local nightclub which was turning out the lights on disco, a product of the 70's, but it was already 1981.

The generation thing is kind of a gray area because decades are kind of a gray area, don't you think?

 

[Zyphlin]

Xennial, the distinct micro generation between X and millenials

 

[vesper]

I had to look it up but evidently I am a boomer.
Baby boomers are people born during the demographic post–World War II baby boom approximately between the years 1946 and 1964. This includes people who are between 70 and 52 years old in 2016, respectively. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the term baby boomer is also used in a cultural context according to Wikipedia.


But I do feel the generation before me was the greatest generation in the 20th century.

 

[Josie]

Xennial, the distinct micro generation between X and millenials

Same. I don't feel like I fit in with GenX or Millennials, so I like the newly labeled one in the middle.