What Generation do you define yourself with?

[Taverner]

Look - some of us wobblies can go either way - I was born in 1970, and definitely felt a connection with GenX

But I've known some who actually fit more with the boomer, even though they were coming on the end of a baby bust...

So what generation do YOU define yourself with? Independent of the year you were born?

[begin_within]

1. I ended the baby boom

March 3, 1960

[Taverner]

3. But which group do you feel apart of ?

[begin_within]

5. the baby boomers, but

comparing myself to my sister, who was born Aug. 27, 1946, and was at the start of the baby boom - we're both baby boomers but she is a lot more materialistic and ultimately now a lot more conservative to me. She went to UC Berkeley for one year (1965) but transferred to UCLA for the remaining 3 years because she didn't like the atmosphere at Berkeley. I probably would have stuck with it. She's a lot more well-off than me but I have much better values and I'm a much more interesting person than her.

[Taverner]

7. People change

Thats why I think birth year may not have as much to do with it as previously

Consider my parents, born in 1937 and 1938 respectively, yet I was born in 1970. Funny, my wife is the same way, although her parents were born on the other side of the Earth. Yet we have a connection I have not had with kids from boomer parents.

[begin_within]

14. Your parents are in between "named generations"

They are past the so-called "greatest generation" which grew up in the Depression and then went to fight World War II. And then if they had kids after the war, the kids were Baby Boomers. I would say you're Gen-X even though you may feel a lot in common with Baby Boomers. For my birth year, some web sites call us "Generation Jones" (born 1954-1965) people like me, George Clooney, Princess Diana, Barack Obama. But I never hear anyone refer in conversation to "Generation Jones." When I was a kid, we were too young to be participants in Vietnam protests, race riots or the Woodstock generation - we saw all that going on but we were too young for it. When I was 18, Carter was President and disco was popular. The Generation X people came of age in the 1980s and my age group was already out of college when the whole MTV generation and "Generation X" started forming shape and being named. So we never really got a true "generation" of our own, but we are in positions of power now. (Well, not me, but some of us.)

[NYC_SKP]

2. I feel that I belong to the first generation (of many) who will have less security than the parents.

Born March 15, 1957

:patriot:

[ogneopasno]

4. 1971, and I very much identify with Generation X.

[quakerboy]

6. Whichever one is winning right now

[Taverner]

8. Sounds like no one is winning these days

As long as we all have pie... though, we all win

[quakerboy]

9. Then for the time being I will have to be my own generation

After taking many high falutin fancy classes, I have determined that I carry the best characteristics of all the recent generations. And Pie. So I win.

[Taverner]

10. Would that be Generation n?

[quakerboy]

17. Generation Q, for the moment

If one of the others starts winning, I may join up. Only time will tell

[Deja Q]

11. 1972. Boomers, great depression, and X rolled into one.

I cling to no stereotypes.

[Taverner]

12. How do you get Great Depression in there?

I can see the other two - but great depression???

[Deja Q]

16. 3 reasons

1. I don't waste food
2. I try to be frugal (okay, I fail since I like to shop... at least I find things on sale and get big discounts. )
3. I think people were lonelier in that era, and what interpersonal relationships they did find they tried to make long-lasting and not throw them away on a whim

I dunno.

[bif]

13. The Woodstock Generation

I'm an old hippie, for sure.

[OhioChick]

15. GenX here and feel a connection.

:shrug:

[blogslut]

18. Generation Jones

I was born in 1960

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones

[begin_within]

20. I think a central issue for us "Jonesers" is

the dramatic difference between the world we were schooled in and the world we faced as adults. I remember living in an almost "Leave it to Beaver"-esque life as a schoolchild and brought up to believe the adult world was like that, but by the time I reached adulthood in the late 1970s and 1980s the world was already a far different place. So it has taken us extra effort to adjust to a new reality that simply didn't exist when we were being "instructed" on reality as kids.

[blogslut]

21. Not to mention that we were sideline observers of the various movements

We were too young to participate and by the time we were old enough, we faced a world full of crappy disco music, unbridled consumerism and Reagan.

[begin_within]

23. I think the early Baby Boomers basically got what they expected to get

There was tumult and change during their teenage and college years, but the social institutions were still pretty much intact, and the early baby boomers, like my sister (born 1946) still got their share of the pie and got the life that they expected to get when they were in school. The Gen Xers had different expectations because by the 1980s the world had changed a lot. Us Jonesers had the expectations that the Boomers had, yet got stuck with the world that GenX got. So it was kind of a bait-and-switch for us. I still feel like we sort of just passed by unnoticed and had to adapt on our own.

[bluedigger]

44. I never heard of the "generation Jones" before.

Interesting. I agree with you that we got bait and switched in many ways. I am a few days older than you, grew up in an "idyllic" New England college town where the common jokes were at the expense of French Canadians, as they were the only outsiders we had for derision. Commies were bad, yet many of those abuses of communism, i.e. identification cards, are now accepted as necessary here by many. Sometimes it feels like I fell through the looking glass.

[Whoa_Nelly]

19. This one

:hippie:







My life back then...



Rockin' Down The Highway

[applegrove]

22. Generation X. All the way. Including the part where I work until I am 80 to pay for

their and my retirement.

[OmahaBlueDog]

24. Depending on who you ask, I am in the last year of the baby boom or the first year of the bust

I feel no connection with Gen X.

I think of myself as a tail-end Boomer.

[Juche]

25. Millenials

I am 29 and will be 30 in a year, but my attitudes towards technology and social issues/politics fits better with the millenials. Being born in 1979 puts me in the middle of Generation X and the millenials, but I identify far better with the millenial generation.

[Chan790]

42. Same here...

I was born in 1979 by a hair...literally. I ID with the millennial generation. I don't remember the Cold War and I barely remember a time before the internet. I could type before I could write, I've never lived in a home without a personal computer and I've never used the cursive I was required to learn in grade school. My cultural touchstones are all 3-5 years behind my chronological age.

Now...very soon some boomer or Gen-X child will be along to be very pushy and inform us both that we're Gen-X because ultimately (and I admit freely to being an optimist) we're (the millennial generation) going to be the ones that fix the messes they've created...I already see that happening even around me...and for some reason they feel the need to drag us down. I feel very empowered by our potential. I think we're going to change the world in the world in the way they think they did or wanted to.

[Richard Steele]

26. I've never exactly "fit in" with any large group, let alone an entire "Generation".

The entire concept of "defining myself" has just never
had any appeal to me, either.
I can be defined by about a thousand different "labels"
and few of them are any less valid than the next.

Was it Soren Kierkegaard or Dick van Patton who said,
"If you LABEL me, you NEGATE me"?

[Left Is Write]

27. I don't.

[midnight armadillo]

28. Gen X. Oh, and fuck the Boomers

What a bunch of navel-gazing fuckups, those Boomers. Thanks, by the way, for bequeathing onto us younger generations our pathetic health care system, military-industrial complex, George W. Bush, consumer culture, Vietnam obsession, and a ruined financial system. You were only give the world on a platter by the WWII generation. Sheesh.

[Lex]

31. What a typical Gen X rant.

nt

[midnight armadillo]

35. LOL

.

[ccharles000]

29. I am Gen Y I think.

born in 1989

[DarkTirade]

30. I'm in that kind of half-way generation

after X but before Y.

[AlCzervik]

32. i don't at all. I'm of a product of my experiences and upbringing and those have little to do

with Generation whatever.

[enigmatic]

33. Blank Generation

http://recluseshow.blogspot.com/2009/03/blank-generation-richard-hell-voidoids.html

"I was sayin let me out of here before I was
even born--it's such a gamble when you get a face
It's fascinatin to observe what the mirror does
but when I dine it's for the wall that I set a place...."

[Odin2005]

34. Millennial Generation. Born 1986.

[crimsonblue]

36. Gen Y----- NOT Millenial (that's for tweens and such).

[crimsonblue]

38. btw, I absolutely HATE HATE HATE the term 'Millenial'

Jesus Christ, it sounds so fucking childish and ridiculous. Born in '85, I'll stick with Gen Y or the Internet Generation, thank you very much.

[elleng]

37. I don't bother.

1945.

Boomer? Too much territory covered.

I'm me.

[ashling]

39. The one that would never

end a sentence with a preposition
:rofl:
Talkin' 'bout my generation!

[pokerfan]

40. Good question

I'm not old enough to be a boomer. Not young enough to be an xer.

Born in 1959...

What am I?

[Lucian]

41. I don't fit in with any generation.

I'm a degenerate.

[deoxyribonuclease]

43. GenY/Millenials - 1982

[harmonicon]

45. Gen X, I guess - 1978

It's strange, but I seem to have a lot more in common culturally with people born from about '65 - '80 than with people just a few years younger than me. Maybe it's because I'm the youngest in my extended family, so the cultural associations I grew up with were all from that period. Who knows. Anyone that didn't see "Back to the Future" several times in the theatre is a bit of a mystery to me.

[tabbycat31]

46. I'm betweeen generations

Supposively generation X was born between 1965-1979 and the Millenials were born between 1982-2000. I was born in 1980 so I'm not sure where I fall in the grand scale of things. I know that I identify more with the millenials though.