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Generations -----

  1. Which named generation do you most identify as your own? (Greatest/Silent/Boomer/GenX/Millennial/GenZ/etc)

  2. Barring your date of birth, how else have you found that you identify with this generation?

Myself: Technically, I'm late GenX, exemplified by a highschool over-run with Grunge music. I still wear Doc Martens nearly daily.

APaleBlueDot 7 June 18
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I’m a silent, and the name fits me well. No social activist am I. My only desire is to promote harmony and gratitude for life and avoid trouble if possible.

An example is the Trump guy. I didn’t like him and didn’t vote for him, yet, since he was legally elected I feel that it is a duty to acknowledge him as my president and give him due support. Good citizenship requires that we respect the judgments of the electors.

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I suppose I'm a boomer but I don't much identify with anyone, even those I went to school with. I can identify internationally way before I zoom in on current nonsense. People my age normally bore the hell out of me. Young people are fine but not drug users and damn, we sure have enough of them at all levels. I'm an activist of sorts, concerned with national and world events, but equally absorbed in hours or days of alone time just doing my own thing.

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I'm a boomer. I was born in 1946, graduated from high school in 1964, Viet Nam was killing and maiming friends who were drafted. I became an activist, hippie, and feminist. I marched protested, raised kids, started getting tattoos, then, knew my odd jobs weren't cutting it, so went to nursing school. I worked as a nurse and midwife, continued activism, met Betty Friedan, read, studied, became atheist and pagan, and remained to this day. I listened to rock music, went to concerts, and smoked weed. Many of my friends have become very religious and conservatives since we are in our 70th decade, so maybe I am becoming atypical in my old age.

@wisewoman3 Wow! What an interesting history!! You hail from the same year as my mom, but she lives, and always lived, a very non-activist life, always. Dad too. A friend of mine that is around 65 and I were talking, and he lamented about how the boomers were "messing it up" in present day, and had traded on their previous values system...but we decided the best of hippie boomers had their time, and the non-hippie boomers stayed in it for the long-haul, and are showing their true colors now. This concept could mean there was a latent personality grouping waiting for their time to shine...and, though it's a polished turd, we can't argue they're trying to shine!! It's interesting to hear that you are finding friends turning to religion! I guess it's not unexpected, grand scheme and all. Had society (and later generations) picked up on the non-christian trend, it might have helped them keep their "lack of" faith!

A woman like me! I am having a tough time identifying with my peers as well...they all seem stuck while I still love being active, getting involved in politics, etc. etc. We know a lot and can use our wisdom and experience to contribute to others and the world...I truly tried playing the religious scene and ended that game in the early 1970's...thanks for your inspiring post...

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I don't think about it.

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Boomer. I was born in 1952.

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Gen Xer, I'm still stuck in the 80's.

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Xennial is a concept I've heard of before. It's for those born between 1978 and 1983. That's who I identify with. I've also heard it be called the lost generation because of the cultural transition between the centuries.

Ed212 Level 4 June 19, 2018
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Silent. Career oriented and no activism.

EdEarl Level 8 June 19, 2018
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I'm very GenX. I was born in 1974 and I remember the 80s. I found out pretty early on that jobs don't just grow on trees, that University can put a person in insurmountable debt, and that ends rarely meet. Less depressingly I can chart all this technological progress within my lifetime, as I remember the when push button phones, answering machines, and microwave ovens were new things, and the evolution of mobile phones and video games.

1973 here and you are spot on.

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This is a sore point for me. I was born in 1967. All my life (until about 10 years ago), I heard that the baby boomers ended in 1964, and GenX didn't start until 1970. I felt like I didn't belong anywhere for quite a bit (my ex-wife was born in late 1964, a late boomer, and acted like we were so far apart, generationally.)

Now, I've been retconned to be Gen, but still can't stop thinking about all the time I spent without a generation. All the good movies and music that I didn't get to have ownership of.

Ozman Level 7 June 19, 2018

I was born in 64, then later learned that was gen-x too. I won't be pidgeonholed into a moving target, so I'm just me 😉

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Baby Boomer...

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I’m on the older side of millennials, born in 86. Last generation to experience childhood without the internet and first to grow up with it becoming common in our homes. I guess we were the first bunch of kids to start gettin cell phones by our teen years and I’ve heard we were the least supervised generation in history lol. Damn if I had known that at the time Ida really had some fun. Got especially screwed by the 08 recession happening right as I was trying to work my way through finishing college. ?‍♂️ Grunge was still cool growing up but we skipped to the spoiler on Kurt’s life and largely knew it as a cautionary tale as we were gettin into it.

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I as born as a member of the silent generation. But, I identify with the protest generation of the late 1960s to mid 1970s.

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I as born as a member of the silent generation. But, I identify with the protest generation of the late 1960s to mid 1970s.

@wordywalt I went looking, recently, for the origin of that "don't trust anyone over 30" statement. Turns out it wasn't initially intended to divide or to become a historic quote. Did you attend protests and such? Was there much spill-over of the silent generation participating in the protest movement?

@APaleBlueDot As I was over 30 at the time, I simply ignored that issue. I was in graduate school from 1967 through mid 1971, and teaching on a college campus from 1971 through 1976 where the protest generation was strong. in college scene, I and many of my friends chose not to stay quiet and do as we were told, to actively make our education what we wanted it to be. I was a part of a group actively engaged with the university faculty and administration to bring about change. As a person with limited income and a wife and two kids, I could not afford to travel much to protest. .

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For my whole life I've thought I was Gen-X and I identified as Gen-X. But "they" keep changing the dates so, depending on whose census you look at, I'm a Millennial now on some of them. Wish they'd stop trying to erase Gen-X so they can lump everyone who's not a Boomer together

@ghost_warlock There is a decent bit of crossover... Can you put your finger on anything that makes you feel like a Gen-X?

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no boomers or busters? I'm on the cusp of the Boomer/Buster' bunch...im old.... I remember lots of things before computers, before cell phones xx before video games....pinball, imagination, sticks and rocks

@hankster Many Apologies!! That was my oversight...was writing on the cell phone... My question has been updated to not leave out 20 years worth of people. : )

@APaleBlueDot no worries man. I was just figuring you were kind of missing all the good stuff...lol. do you know anything about beekeeping? yeah I know that's unrelated.

@hankster ?. Surely, I agree with the "good stuff" comment. While I may have been drowning in M-tv, it didn't stop my music choices from being 95% older than I was! Dang, there will never be rock'n'roll like that again! Beekeeping... unfortunately, I know nothing. I'm in an urban-ish area, and keep a modest wildflower garden for the pollinators... which is inherently frequented by the infinite variety of homeless or less social bee varieties. You?

@APaleBlueDot no but I'm thinking about learning about it. I'm kind of thinking about beekeeping as a hobby that might do a little bit of good. I live way out in the country. there is a small fraction of the number of bees that used to be here. I saw you had a pollinator Garden so I just wondered if you knew anything about beekeeping. plus I'll get the honey.

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Can I say Xennial?

@daddy2two I'm on the X'er side of the cusp... many scholars argue against having crossover years named something special. But...more to the point, not knowing if you have some sort of underlying speech impediment... your question still stands. ?

Cute, but still a little bit abelist.

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