If you were born between 1960-1964 do you consider yourself a boomer or generation Xer.
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Anonymous
| 1964 - I feel like Gen X. |
Anonymous
| PP, should have mentioned I married a guy 8 years old who is technically a boomer but lies a bit in between although now I'm in my 50s and he's in his 60s and the divide feels greater. |
Anonymous
I know where I was when I heard John Lennon was shot. I know where I was when I heard Reagan was shot. I have no idea where I was when I learned about Kurt Cobain. I wasn't into grunge. I also wouldn't use Lennon as a "you're an Xer if you..." because I think I was the only one of my peers who cared. How about if you remember that Al Gore is married to Tipper Gore, who is evil incarnate because she tried to take away our music. |
Anonymous
Except most of them were born 60-65, which technically puts them in Baby boomer territory. |
Anonymous
The boom dropped off in 1960 and forward, coinciding with the pill being more and more mainstream. By the time you get to 1964 it is more of a birth dearth. |
Anonymous
But I was in college/school for both those things. 21 in 2001 and 6 in 1986.....I can tell you where I was for both. Born in 1980, I have no place in either Gen X or the Millennials. |
Anonymous
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Oh what a night,
late December back in ‘63, What a very special time for me, Cause I was born. My parents were just out of college, born right before WWII but did not really remember much of it. They were not the Greatest Generation. I am, in no way a boomer. I am a child of the 70’s, not the sixties. I have a few memories from the 60’s, but they are pretty sparse. The 70’, I remember. HS was in the late 70’s to the early 80’, graduating in 1987. Culturally, I do not align with boomers. I don’t care what you think. I am not a child of the 60’s. My British band is Queen |
Anonymous
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I was born in mid 1964. I do not feel apart of either generation. JFK was shot before I was born. I don't remember Viet Nam. I have a vague memory of the moon shot, ("watch THIS, you will remember it the rest of your life!!!!!" is what I remember). I was just becoming aware when Nixon was nearly impeached - mid-ES. Carter's election is the first one I remember. I remember John Anderson.
I remember when John Lennon was shot mainly because it was the first banner headline I had ever seen in the newspaper and that shocked me. I really wasn't aware of the Beatles until that point. Same for Elvis's death. I remember when Reagan was shot, I know who shot JR, I remember the Iranian hostages coming home - these were when I was in HS. I remember Challenger in college, same for Thriller - I was never really a Michael Jackson fan. Madonna was huge. Purple Rain came out in college. U2 was on my radar then. Live Aid..... I remember Lockerbie- two students from my HS were on the plane. I remember Tiananmen square- a mom from church was in a hotel just off the square. I remember the hijacked plane that went to Beirut- a neighbor was on that plane. (I don't remember the chronology of those events). I remember when the wall came down and Perestroika- I was living in DC and working. I did not know of Kurt Cobain until after his death. |
Anonymous
h, my parents were born in 1929 and 1931. They were depression babies and came of age during WWI- so they were whatever was before the "Greatest Generation". |
Anonymous
Note: I fixed the quoted P's typos, amusing though I found them. Anyway, I think which generation you feel a part of depends on whether you have older siblings who influence what you're exposed to. So while my mother, who was also a Depression baby, might have just missed being part of the Greatest Generation, her older brothers fought in WWII, and it made a big impression on her. Similarly, I was born in 1964, but I'm the youngest kid in my family, so while I wasn't as influenced by late 60s/early 70s culture as my siblings, I was certainly aware of it, thanks especially to my pot-smoking oldest brother. |
Anonymous
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I was born in 1961 and identify as a boomer. My parents were Greatest Generation, and while I was an only child, most of my peers were the youngest in their families, so the tail end of the baby boomers.
I do think that my experience was different from those in the first part of the baby boom born a decade or more earlier. As a PP said, their lives had that '50s straitlaced Leave It to Beaver setting, where as my developing years in the late 60s and early 70s were more the mod days of mini skirts and go-go boots and Bobby Sherman and Donny Osmond. I remember being 10 or so and people just talking about twentysomethings living together and how scandalous it was. In elementary school we had to wear dresses, there was no meat on Fridays and it was rare for a mom to be working outside the home. I don't identify with Gen X at all. |
Anonymous
I personally hate terms "boomers"or gen X" It is all made up and meant to divide us. |
Anonymous
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I was born in 1960, my parents in 1925 and 1927. My father was in the Navy in WWII. I'm number 6 of 7 children and technically a boomer but don't really identify with boomers or Gen X. If I had to choose, I would say boomer because of influence from my siblings. The betweeners of the boomers and Gen X are often called Generation Jones, from Wikipedia:
Jonesers were given huge expectations as children in the 1960s, and then confronted with a different reality as they came of age during a long period of mass unemployment and when de-industrialization arrived full force in the mid-late 1970s and 1980s, leaving them with a certain unrequited "jonesing" quality for the more prosperous days of the past. |
Anonymous
+1 Except I was born in 79. |
Anonymous
+2-- born in 77 |