Which generation do you belong too...

[Longgrain]

Poll question: Which generation do you belong too...

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. I don't know. I graduated high school in '89

:shrug:

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[Feathered Fish]

3. Gen X

[Worst Username Ever]

4. That makes you gen x.

[Revillusion1]

51. You're a Gen X'er

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. :-)

[smbolisnch]

2. Generation X

:P

[bloodyjack]

5. THE LOST GENERATION

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

[TahitiNut]

41. "The Lost Generation" is given to those born between 1883 and 1900

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

[bloodyjack]

43. Yes

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

[arcane1]

6. hmm, no idea

born in 67, who am I?

guess that makes me gen x

[Feathered Fish]

7. What is the cutoff for gen x?

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

[Longgrain]

10. I'm not sure

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...

[no name no slogan]

11. Gen X = born between 1965 -- 1975

at least according to most demographers.

[Wat_Tyler]

39. I think it might go further than a decade - most generations do.

I reckon 1963-1977

[Spider Jerusalem]

45. '65-'77 or '79, depending on whom you ask...

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

[TahitiNut]

42. "Generation X" refers to those born 1960-1981 (or 1964-1985)

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

[Longgrain]

8. Unfortunately I grew up during the seventies and

was an adolescent during the eighties...

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

[Spider Jerusalem]

48. Ah...

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

[CBHagman]

9. We're going to need some definitions, Longgrain!

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."

[Longgrain]

14. I guess however anyone wants to define it for themselfs...

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...

[johnnie]

12. Born in 1964

:shrug:

[Bombtrack]

13. Um, this is a flawed poll. Most of those aren't generations according

to most people who write about those kind of things, and you
sure don't make it clear what you're talking about with the
titles. I wrote a paper where I organized specifications for
the generations based on the more vague outlines and labels
others had established.

I found an 18/15 alternation between length of generations was
what worked best.

I also went in to great detail comparing and constrasting the
different generations and the most common relationships to
other generations in terms of how families tend to be
distributed througout them. Anyway, here is the outline

Born between    time period     nickname 			ages for those    
                                                   alive
1860-1875	15 years	Missionary
1876-1894	18 years	Progressive generation
1895-1910	15 years	Lost Generation			94 -109	
1911-1929	18 years	G.I./Greatest Generation	75 - 93	
1930-1945	15 years	Silent Generation		59 - 74
1946-1964	18 years	Baby Boomers			40 - 58	
1965-1980	15 years	Generation X			24 - 39
1981-1999	18 years	Gen Y/Millenials		 5 - 23	
2000-2015	15 years	Generation Z			 0 -  4	

[Longgrain]

15. That's funny, because i would have never

considered myself a generation Xer...

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

[GoddessOfGuinness]

19. The Missionary generation?

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

[Bombtrack]

I didn't make up the label

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.

[rug]

30. Where the hell is TruthIsAll

when we really need him

[IntravenousDemilo]

33. I think 18 years is too long for a "boom"

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.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

16. I belong to the "No More Labels Please" generation...

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

[Longgrain]

21. I tend to agree actually...

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

[DBoon]

17. I belong to the blank generation

eom

[Feathered Fish]

24. Yay!

love that song.

[DBoon]

32. I was too broke for disco in the 70's

eom

[maveric]

18. Combine "Baby Boomer" with "Hippie", and call it the "Woodstock"

generation.
Thats where I am.

[DebJ]

20. hippie generation and baby boomer generation are the same

chronological ages

[RevolutionaryActs]

22. I'm Gen Y, a thing I just read says its for people born 1979 - 1994.

:shrug:

[Bombtrack]

26. Believe me, I did enough research to know there's no official date for it

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.

[RevolutionaryActs]

29. Well if they all agree it starts past 1980, then I'm good.

:)

[Groggy]

23. Apparently I'm a Boomer

but missed all the fun....

[prairierose]

25. Longgrain, the babyboom & the hippie group....

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.

[Bombtrack]

27. there's no such thing as the hippie generation

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.

[Longgrain]

28. Thanks...I never thought a silly Lounge Poll

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

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

[Left Is Write]

31. I'm between generations.

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

[driver8]

38. That's me, too.

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

[loudestchick]

44. Me too. We're the children of the Hippie Generation. '68

[meow2u3]

34. Born in 1960

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

[Wat_Tyler]

35. I am a debut novel by a slacker author.

[Dukkha]

36. Damn proud to be a NON sellout X

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

[Joe Power]

37. I'm a "tweener"

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

[loudestchick]

46. we're calling ourselves 'tweeners, now? I don't like it. I don't wanna.

Pout.

[Joe Power]

55. Sorry

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

[sans qualia]

40. Generation "Why me?"

[Deja Q]

47. Generation Fucked

(aka Gen X) :D :cry:

[Longgrain]

49. Why is this poll still going around?

Jus' wondering. :shrug:

[BamaGirl]

50. Gen X

Wow, a lot of us responding.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

52. Apparently I belong to both Gen X and Gen Y. n/t

[clovis29]

53. this poll suggest that Gen X lacks sleep skills ;)

[mvd]

54. Born in 1976

Generation X.

[Bullwinkle925]

56. I actually fall into 2 categories.....

Baby Boomer and Hippie

[Fleurs du Mal]

57. Pure X ;)

[MissMillie]

58. I'm very barely a boomer

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

[Magrittes Pipe]

59. Generation Sex, baby.