Which generation do you belong too...

:shrug:

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That's anyone born between 1965 and 1978...according to the research for a school paper I did a couple of years ago. I'm also a Gen X'er - graduated in '88. :-)

:P

My voice sounds like money and my breath smells of it too

Many died in WW1 and the name comes from the disaffected writers and artists in Europe in the 20's.

Note the allusion to The Great Gatsby, by F Scott Fitzgerald who was a member of the "Lost Generation"

But you might say that we (meaning I and others of my generation, not necessarily you), the members of Generation Y, are "lost" in our own unique way

Just food for thought

born in 67, who am I?

guess that makes me gen x

what birth year? Is this scientific? Are you with the government? Arghhhh?

I think the Gen X era seemed to die down in the mid to late ninties...:shrug:

I was born a little too early, I was a responsible adult by the time it started up...

at least according to most demographers.

I reckon 1963-1977

The demographers can't quite seem to agree on the timing of Gen X. But it ends before 1980 in any case.

The latter range accommodates those who believe "Baby Boomers" are those born between 1946 and 1964 (instead of 1943 and 1960).

was an adolescent during the eighties...

I still remember too well the preppies and the valley girls...fer sssshure...

Ralph Lauren polo shirts with upturned collars, tennis visors...NOT one of the high points for style...

For example, the baby boom years are often defined as from 1946 through around 1960 or thereabouts. But then you have listed the hippie generation and the disco generation. Is this by birth years or by cultural experience? Inquiring minds want to know! (I guess that dates me right there)

By the way, I checked "baby boom."

several of the generations overlap...I defined it foe myself as the time I went through adolescence and reached adult hood, which was sadly the eighties... The ME decade...The Regan years...ick...

:shrug:

considered myself a generation Xer...

And it's not a "Flawed Poll" it's a "Fun poll" :)

Is that when the famous position was spawned? :evilgrin:

It was applied to a generation close to time period I give it. I'll have to look up my research to tell you exactly why.

when we really need him

The Baby Boom began when guys got back from the Second WW and started reproducing. That would have lasted maybe 10 years, tops. There's another group in between Baby Boomers and Generation X -- a second "lost generation" -- from about 1955 to 1965, to which I belong (b 1959). Maybe we can call us the "fizzle" generation, because whatever boom there was kind of fizzled out by the time we came along.

For many of us, our families didn't have enough money for our older siblings to take advantage of what was a superior education system and graduate from high school, much less university. And those who followed us had the money, but the education system had become relatively crappy by then.

But we current 40-somethings fall in that sweet spot where our families finally had enough money to allow us to finish school, and not have to get full time jobs like big brother and sister, and to do so when the quality of education was still good. We are therefore the best-educated generation in society.

So why are we "lost"? To put it simply, it was bad timing. Our older siblings were able to take advantage of the economic boom of the 1950s and 1960s and get all those jobs that were created. By the time we who went to high-school in the '70s had graduated, the jobs were pretty well gone, and the Boomers decided to hang onto them until their kids were old enough to take them. Many of us have had to become entrepreneurs even before the idea was fashionable.

To sum up -- we're the best educated in our society, and we've received the shittiest deal. Am I bitter? Well, yeah, but there's nothing I can do about it except lie about my age, which is a possibility for me because I look about 10 years younger than I am. But what about people in their 40s who look their age?

Disco aside, we do have the best music, though.

As soon as you slap a label on yourself, you're subject to the doofy notions people have about that particular brand of person.

Supposedly I'm a gen Xer, but I act more like a beat or a hippie...:shrug:

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love that song.

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generation.
Thats where I am.

chronological ages

:shrug:

I think I worked out a pretty orderly system and when I'm king I'll make it official.

Different sources claim the Y/millenial generation to begin in various years around 1980.

:)

but missed all the fun....

overlap. And some of us remember the disco years too. Unlike the '60's if you remember them, you might have been there. I was dancing a lot!!!!

Generationally, I identify myself with babyboomers becauce that is when I was born, however I also participated in the next 2 cultural eras.

:hippie:

BTW, I think we need more politically active hippies now & I don't care how old they are, just that they be willing to believe that we can change the world for the better if we work together.

None of the prominent books and writings about generations include that as a label.

It would be pretty unencompassing to name a whole generation after a counterculture supgroup of it.

I posted in, like, five seconds flat would lead to such contarversay...

If I could change my vote, I'll be a hippie...:hippie:

I'm too young to be a baby boomer and too old to really identify with the Gen X stuff.

I was born in 1962 -- nothing in common with the boomers or generation X.

Came of age during the disco era; so that makes me a late baby boomer.

Unlike others I knew in San Francisco 90's who traded in their flannel shirts and combat boots for SUVs and cell phones when they sold their souls to the .com world

Straddling boomer and X status. Doors CD's right next to jane's addiction CD's. :headbang:

Pout.

But you just have to face reality, you tweener. :evilgrin:

(aka Gen X) :D :cry:

Jus' wondering. :shrug:

Wow, a lot of us responding.

Generation X.

Baby Boomer and Hippie

but somehow, I don't feel like I belong to that group at all.