"Child of the 70s, 80s, 90s, etc."

[Anonymous]

I was 5 when the 1980s started and 15 when it ended so I am definitely a child of the 80s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Born in 79. Can remember Reagan on TV and the 88 election and teacher asking us students who'd we vote for and it was mostly Bush aka who our parents were voting for. UMC suburbia. Remember the Soviet Union and the vague impression they were our rivals. Then suddenly the Soviet Union didn't exist any more. I consider myself as having grown up in the 80s and 90s. I should look at the photos from those days and have a good laugh.

Yeah my grade school had a mock election in 1984 and Ronald Reagan won in a landslide because, well, who else were we going to vote for? We paid no attention to politics whatsoever and he was the guy on our tv every night.

I remember I heard on the radio that Reagan won by 500-something electoral college votes and thinking that 500 votes in such a huge country didn’t sound like such a landslide to me. Why was everyone saying that it was?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess I am old here. I was born in 64 and consider myself a child of the 80s. I graduated from HS in 82 and then college.

I was too little in the 70s to remember it or remember the "culture" of it as an adult would remember.

If I think 70s I think disco and all that. Don't remember it; too young. I turned 16 in 1980.

So i say 80s.

That’s weird since you were ages 6-16 during the 70s. You don’t remember any of that? And to me saying you’re a “child of” an era is totally different than saying you remember the “culture” in the way an adult would. Of course adults look at it differently but you were technically a child in the 70s and by the time the 80s started you were no longer a child so how could you possibly consider yourself a “child of” the 80s??

Actually don’t in any meaningful way. But your are right. “Child of x” is different from “I grew up in X”. I stand corrected

You don’t remember up to age 16?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Born in 79. Can remember Reagan on TV and the 88 election and teacher asking us students who'd we vote for and it was mostly Bush aka who our parents were voting for. UMC suburbia. Remember the Soviet Union and the vague impression they were our rivals. Then suddenly the Soviet Union didn't exist any more. I consider myself as having grown up in the 80s and 90s. I should look at the photos from those days and have a good laugh.

Yeah my grade school had a mock election in 1984 and Ronald Reagan won in a landslide because, well, who else were we going to vote for? We paid no attention to politics whatsoever and he was the guy on our tv every night.

I remember I heard on the radio that Reagan won by 500-something electoral college votes and thinking that 500 votes in such a huge country didn’t sound like such a landslide to me. Why was everyone saying that it was?

I remember my first grade class coming in the day after the 1984 election and someone started saying “Boo, Reagan” and everyone joined in. Lol, that was in California.