Is Joe Biden "Generation Steve?"

[Writer]

He was born in 1943. Is he a Boomer or a member of "Generation Steve?"

If you must know, Generation Steve is this tiny generation separating the Silent Generation from the Boomers. But because everyone is a Boomer, or wants to be a Boomer, shouldn't Biden be a Boomer, too?







;)

[marylanddem]

1. We boomers can let Joe be a boomer, too -

but I didn't realize everybody wants to be a boomer - we're cool!

[WCGreen]

2. Don't you watch the Centrum Commercials....

He's clearly Steve...

[Writer]

4. Totally.

He's either a Boomer or a Pre-Boomer Stever. He's definitely NOT a member of the Silent Generation.

[LSparkle]

3. Once and for all, who is a boomer? I was born in '58 and grew up in the '70s

I don't consider myself a boomer -- I'm sort of
stuck between them and Gen X. Does my generation
have a name????

[Taverner]

5. Yer a boomer

[Writer]

6. Oh no, you're definitely a Boomer.

I was born in 1975, and I'm apparently a Boomer, too, according to some.

And so's my Dad - born in 1940.

But no - Biden's in Gen Steve.

[Orangepeel]

7. Some call it "Generation Jones"

because lack of fulfillment is a general characteristic.

[Writer]

8. Yes, then there's Generation Steve.

Who doesn't know whether they should have been born BEFORE or AFTER WW2.

Biden is definitely Generation Steve.

[bluhoodie]

9. I don't mean this as a slam, but - "the Me Generation"?

As I recall, that the the label before we heard of Generation X, which came a little later. After the boomers trickled out, kids were considered to have become more individualistic, focused on self more than on the group, siblings, the common good.   :shrug:

[LSparkle]

10. That sounds right ... but maybe I am a boomer because I felt out of place

By the time I got to college, my peers were already
focused on making money, going to business school,
etc., not just becoming "well-rounded people," which
was what I thought college was for. (And if you got
a degree that helped you find a job, that was great,
too.) I approached school with an equal measure of
seriousness and levity, and was really shocked by
how so many of my friends just wanted to study all
the time and were loathe to take breaks to hang out,
venture into the nearby city or just to LIVE. I
guess I was hoping I'd get Berkeley '68 but by '76
I was surrounded by Alex P. Keatons (even though
this was pre-"Family Ties").