If you were born between 1960-1964 do you consider yourself a boomer or generation Xer.
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Anonymous
It was the era that the movies came out. I was in college in '85 when Saint Elmo's Fire came out. It resonated with me because I was in college and I was even partying with my friends in Georgetown at the time. It was definitely a movie for my crowd at the time, not the people who had already graduated, married, started families. And it wasn't a movie for kids. It was a young adult in the 80's movie. |
Anonymous
You must not remember the part where they were constantly telling us they were better than us. |
Anonymous
Wrong. Read the wiki article on Gen X.
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Anonymous
No one cares. You need to move on. |
Anonymous
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I was born in July 1964. I have seen 1964 cited as the last year of the Baby Boom. I have also seen it cited as the first year of Gen X.
I don’t feel I have anything in common with Boomers and - frankly - that generation deeply disappoints me of late. Boomers had so many opportunities and now many of them seek to change the rules for younger generations. It’s like Fox News has corrupted them as much as violent video games have corrupted many young people today. I don’t know much about what Gen X represents, so I do not identify with that generation either. I just do my own thing. |
Anonymous
And yet I didn't do any drugs, liked pop music and married in my early 20s, so -nope. Those older than me were into drugs (LSD, opiates), rock, and counter culture. I think most people don't understand the culture associated with age groups- I see a lot of misconceptions here, particularly against boomers. They were the true renegades and now people think they are Fox News devotees. Not anyone I know! Not on this coast! |
Anonymous
| Funny how many people responding aren’t born between ‘60 and ‘64. I was born in 61 and always considered myself a boomer. I think the defining moment for our generation was the moon walk. I remember my family gathered around the TV watching it in awe and every boomer I know remembers a similar experience. I graduated from college into a recession and many of us late boomers have struggled to achieve all the milestones of adult life. My parents were Greatest Generation and my children are millenials. I think we’re all nice, hardworking people. |
Anonymous
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I was born in ‘77. Everyone who was in college or HS when I was a freshman in HS feels like my generation. Everyone younger doesn’t.
(Recognizes this isn’t demographicly true. Just wildly extrapolating from my experience.) |
Anonymous
I agree. Born in 1979. Kids born in 1985 and afterwards feel like they are a different generation altogether. I think it has to do with the internet and computers. If you were born in the late 1970s/early 1980s you will remember classrooms without computers, teachers who couldn't figure out what to do with the computer when the school finally put one into the classroom, social life in high school and college without cell phones, thinking that the internet was for dorks and geeks who colonized the computer lab and all that and why would you ever want to waste your time on chatrooms and staring at a dull screen. There were even a few years in the early 2000s when we laughed at people who had cell phones as it seemed slightly pathetic. The kids who were born after 1985 were exposed to computers and the internet and cell phones at a much younger age and have different relationships with them, methinks. |
Anonymous
But that seems silly. People consider themselves part of a generation because of a shared culture, not because of birth rates. People born in the early 60's were part of the higher birth rates that started in the 1940's, but they have nothing in common with them culturally. |
Anonymous
My boomer mother had a child in Jr. High when the Brat Pack movies came out. |
Anonymous
Well then demographers are idiots and should be ignored. |
Anonymous
Well of course not everyone was doing those things. But the sex, drugs, and rock and roll culture began in the late 60's. Not everyone in HS in the 70's was partaking of it, but the culture didn't even really exist prior to 1965. Don't you think attending a Led Zeppelin concert in 1972 would have been a far different experience than attending a Rick Nelson concert in 1962? |
Anonymous
My sister was born in 77 and she feels the same way. She considers herself part of generation X, but definitely at the tale end. Neither one of us consider our cousins who were born in 80 and 82 to be Xers. Don't know what they consider themselves to be. |
Anonymous
I'm generation X -1972, and I don't really know what our generation is supposed to represent either. |