What generation are you? - Page 3 - Historum

**Mike McClure** · December 14th, 2010, 10:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Speculatin'

It looks like I belong to the "Silent Generation" (1937), where I largely didn't have a clue about anything.

There is a disconect that I have never understood. The Silent Generation is identified with the 50's even though it was their generation that caused all the change in the 60's. The Baby Boomers get identified with the 60's although we were just spectators. Seems mixed up

**Mike McClure** · December 14th, 2010, 10:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Anna James

Generation X, 67, on the other side of the Iron Curtain, when there was one.
What can I say - I was raised, educated, prepared for...a lie. And I saw the crash of it and what this did to people.
So, maybe I don't mind the X-term... for me it stands for a big crossed out sing on a piece of paper...so a big cross over a big utopia, illusion, whatever you want to call it.
Now I don't put anything on the paper so nothing can be crossed over.
So there!
(blowing a "raspberry")

When did you come to America?

**Anna James** · December 14th, 2010, 10:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Mike McClure

When did you come to America?

March 3, 2001. So, I still discover America, so to speak.

History Chick · December 15th, 2010, 12:32 AM

Well, technically I should be in the Millennial Generation ('82) but because my only sibling is older than me and therefore a part of Generation X, I think I identify more with that group.