Generation Xer's do you feel more similar to baby boomers or millenials?

[Anonymous]

Probably very typical Gen-Xer of me to say, but my answer is neither. To do so and find affinity with another generation negates any special commonality GenX has or had...what about us?

Parents were Silent Generation. One sibling a Boomer (tail end year) and now I am raising a Millenial (wait - 1998?...what is my DC?) but work with mostly Millennials who seem so very young to me.

If I am old enough to be your mom...we are going to relate on a whole different level...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1970 and millennials. My SO is a boomer (1964) and we laugh often that those six years are like 30 sometimes. SO was married and a dad when I was 13.

Personally I don't see your SO as a boomer. I view Boomer as born between 1946 and 1958. I know a generation is 20 years but, there is a big difference in life experience between someone born in 47 and someone born in 64.

[Anonymous]

If I had to pick, definitely more with the Millennials.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:1970 and millennials. My SO is a boomer (1964) and we laugh often that those six years are like 30 sometimes. SO was married and a dad when I was 13.

Married with a kid at 19? Did he own his own trailer, too?

LOL yes, at 19. It still seems strange to me. High school sweethearts who went to college together. Got pregnant real fast because of course they did. Struggled it out together, made it. She died from cancer a few years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It really depends on the topic. I was born in 1974, which is closer to millennials than boomers.
I was politically active as a teenager / young adult, fighting for the environment. Millennials took that torch. Then GenZ.
I believe in healthcare for all, great public schools, and a “safety net” for when people fall on hard times. But I don’t believe in supporting someone that doesn’t attempt to work. I am for social equality. Which I think boomers are for too.
I don’t believe in publicly shaming everybody that shared or liked an “offensive” meme 10 years ago - unless it is an abundant amount over many years. Example: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/09/27/reporter-who-outed-racist-tweets-by-viral-fundraiser-leaves-des-moines-register-after-his-own-offensive-posts-surface/
I had kids late in life, so I am raising my children alongside the Millennials. I don’t side with the boomers when it comes to children. I don’t believe every child gets an award for participation but I also don’t believe in telling children that life‘s not fair and suck it up. There’s a position in between those two mentalities.

Interesting reading out of Boomer activism - the Boomers are the prototypical "activist" generation - much more so than Gen X.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It really depends on the topic. I was born in 1974, which is closer to millennials than boomers.
I was politically active as a teenager / young adult, fighting for the environment. Millennials took that torch. Then GenZ.
I believe in healthcare for all, great public schools, and a “safety net” for when people fall on hard times. But I don’t believe in supporting someone that doesn’t attempt to work. I am for social equality. Which I think boomers are for too.
I don’t believe in publicly shaming everybody that shared or liked an “offensive” meme 10 years ago - unless it is an abundant amount over many years. Example: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/09/27/reporter-who-outed-racist-tweets-by-viral-fundraiser-leaves-des-moines-register-after-his-own-offensive-posts-surface/
I had kids late in life, so I am raising my children alongside the Millennials. I don’t side with the boomers when it comes to children. I don’t believe every child gets an award for participation but I also don’t believe in telling children that life‘s not fair and suck it up. There’s a position in between those two mentalities.

Are you really trying to say Boomers weren't politically active?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I had to pick, definitely more with the Millennials.

Same here. Born in 1978.

[Anonymous]

More with the millennials, possibly because baby boomer professors seemed to hate my cohort in college and tell us how lacking we were. There just weren't as many of us.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was born in 72, and I feel more of a connection with baby boomers than millennials. Although that could be because boomers are considered as being born up through 1964, which I think is way too late, but whatever. But culturally I feel a lot more similar to those who were born in the early 60's and even late 50's than I do with those who were born after 1980. What about other Xers, which generation do you feel more in common with?

They both DRIVE ME CRAZY! But I respect Millennials more since they don't seem to be quite as narcissistic.

To me there is no more of a narcissistic generation than millennials. Perhaps it's the fault of helicopter/lawn mower parenting or selfie culture/social media, but everything seems to be 'me me me' among millennials.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:1970 and millennials. My SO is a boomer (1964) and we laugh often that those six years are like 30 sometimes. SO was married and a dad when I was 13.

Personally I don't see your SO as a boomer. I view Boomer as born between 1946 and 1958. I know a generation is 20 years but, there is a big difference in life experience between someone born in 47 and someone born in 64.

OP here and totally agree with this, I know technically boomers include those born up to 1964, but personally I think that's ridiculous, If you're not old enough to remember the JFK assasination or beetlemania, I really don't think you should be considered a boomer. When I say I identify more with boomers, THIS is the age group I'm referring to, not the Woodstock generation, which would include my own parents.

[Anonymous]

I am Gen X and I definitely feel more affinity with the Boomers. I really don't like most of the Millennials I know or work with. Both groups are a little self-absorbed but the Millennials complain so much and they are whiney. That drives me nuts.

[Anonymous]

1972

Materially, I think I have a lot in common with Millenials-I don't have a car. I bought my first house last year and it's a small ranch. I like to live simply AND I'm ahead of the curve in terms of my massive student loan debt.

As a worker, I'm much more like a Boomer. I feel like I have a suck it up, get it done, prove yourself to the organization mentality that my Millenial coworkers (many of whom are talented and interested in career advancement) don't have.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was born in 72, and I feel more of a connection with baby boomers than millennials. Although that could be because boomers are considered as being born up through 1964, which I think is way too late, but whatever. But culturally I feel a lot more similar to those who were born in the early 60's and even late 50's than I do with those who were born after 1980. What about other Xers, which generation do you feel more in common with?

They both DRIVE ME CRAZY! But I respect Millennials more since they don't seem to be quite as narcissistic.

To me there is no more of a narcissistic generation than millennials. Perhaps it's the fault of helicopter/lawn mower parenting or selfie culture/social media, but everything seems to be 'me me me' among millennials.

Perfect description.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was born in 72, and I feel more of a connection with baby boomers than millennials. Although that could be because boomers are considered as being born up through 1964, which I think is way too late, but whatever. But culturally I feel a lot more similar to those who were born in the early 60's and even late 50's than I do with those who were born after 1980. What about other Xers, which generation do you feel more in common with?

They both DRIVE ME CRAZY! But I respect Millennials more since they don't seem to be quite as narcissistic.

To me there is no more of a narcissistic generation than millennials. Perhaps it's the fault of helicopter/lawn mower parenting or selfie culture/social media, but everything seems to be 'me me me' among millennials.

This is part of why I don't identify as much with millennials. They came of age in a post internet/cell-phone world. Plus the parenting style changed quite a bit, and yes most of their parents were rather "helicopterish" although that phrase wasn't in use at the time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't identify with either Boomers or millennial.

Same.