What "Generation" are you?

X, raised by Silent Generation. Been thinking about this lately and have found people in my generation vary greatly in attitudes when raised by boomers or greatest.

*edit- My dad missed the greatest gen by a few and is considered silent

Gen X, here. Raised by a boomer.

I didn’t know there were names for them… which one is which?

I’m a Baby Boomer – born between 1946 and 1964.

@likipie, 2000/2001-Present – New Silent Generation or Generation Z
1980–2000 – Millennials or Generation Y
1965–1979 – Generation X
1946–1964 – Baby Boom
1925–1945 – Silent Generation
1900–1924 – G.I. Generation or The Greatest Generation

I was born in 1991, so I guess that would make me Gen Y, the Net Generation :)

Based on the list @bkcunningham provided, I am part of Generation Y (never really learned the labels.)

According to that chart above, I’m Silent – NOT!

It just occurred to me that maybe you wanted people to guess, @josie. I hope it didn’t screw up your question that I posted the names of the generations.

I’m apparently a Millennial child. Never knew there were so many specific names!
I do feel that the 80s to 2000 is a bit generalized, though, as there is a pretty big divide between the 80s and the 90s.

Boomer who raised two children and two grandchildren.

All love rock and roll music….........they had no choice!!

I think it’s meaningless, and part of a media (and societal) obsession with labeling. Let’s take the Boomers, for example. Someone born in 1946 came of age during the Vietnam War era and the turmoil and social changes of the 1960’s, while someone born in the early 60’s (tail end of the Boomers) came of age when Reagan was president.

If you follow the classifications in the original question above, someone born in 1925 would have been old enough to have been in World War II (not to mention having been aware of the economic turmoil of the 1930’s), while a junior member of that same broad classification entered adulthood at the end of the 50’s—a completely different world, really.

It’s fun to play with, but I think it’s oversimplified and doesn’t really reflect the realities of our shared existence (except maybe for the folks at Time-Life).

Gen Y.

I never understood that stuff. I’m 1985, so decide for me.

Baby boomer, early end. My parents were teenagers during the Depression. I think that experience marked them and in turn affected how we were brought up. I came of age during the sixties and think that was a great time to be young: exciting and fun and unpredictable.

Beginning of Generation X. I have no idea what that means.

@Jeruba Now, two teens can’t even smoke a joint in the park without being paranoid. :)

Generation X

When I was a kid, the baby boomers were my older sisters/brothers/cousins. It has only been in the last decade or so that they started lumping my generation in with “baby boomers.” Now, the baby boomers are listed as 1946–64! I was born in 1953. I was still in junior high when the baby boomers were going to college, being hippies, having demonstrations, and being drafted to vietnam. That wasn’t my generation at all – let alone the kids that were born a decade later.

My peers and I were a lot more cautious and a lot less rebellious than the group before us. They liked the Beatles, we liked the Monkees. They wanted to run away from home, we wanted to hang on to our childhood as long as possible. They were into LSD, we were terrified of drugs. They wanted to live in a commune, we wanted to own a condo.

I agree with you, @Skaggfacemutt. I was the eldest, and my sister and brothers, all born within that too-broad range, were not of my generation. Even my younger sister, a littler older than you, was of a very different mind-set: she was like you, Monkees and all. Being in college in 1964 was a totally different thing from being in first grade.

Generation Y. Lol @DominicX, the net generation. XD

@Jeruba And the big thing that separated my generation from the baby boomers is that my generation never fought in Vietnam. They stopped drafting in 1971, the year that we graduated.

I’m a Gen Y, but a Gen X at heart!