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Going off-topic, but the above is just too absurd to let pass.
Between them, LBJ and Nixon inflicted a holocaust on Vietnam (at least four million dead, according to McNamara),
and killed 58,000 Americans. But the Carter administration was the catastrophe? Huh??
The US government stipulates that those born 1946-1964 ARE "baby boomers".
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Brightdoglover seems to have a grudge against any born after 1957 termed as a "boomer". She "kindly" informed me about this "Jones" thing. Never heard of it til then.
She says it was later extended that the boomers ended in 1964.
Best, no matter when you were born..or what "generation moniker" you have, or associate with...
I never heard of this "Jones" thing either. You might have been reading someone else's note.
No grudge here. Just that I find the whole generation labeling thing to be largely a function of marketing and therefore to be avoided.
I read an article last week indicating that those of us born from 1955 to 1965 are members of Generation Jones.
Where did this moniker come from?
Result of all the Boomer insults and younger retirees/pre-retirees not wanting to be in that group?
A: What are you talking about.
B: As far as I know, I'm a Baby Boomer......and still on those of the generations later hit list.
C: Is there a true meaning to these terms? That is, I would take it that GJ is suppose to be in constant competition with the next store neighbor? Well, what if you never really lived where there are next store neighbors, like being an Army Brat and then in the service......then what are you?
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The actual baby boom ended around 1957, where each year's birth cohort was larger than the previous year.
Hey, you tried to keep it defined by statistics. I wonder why the idea that BB birthdates ranged later than that is so persistent.
I had never, ever heard of the Jones generation till someone posted it on this thread.
Think I’m gonna make up my own labels for each overlapping generation, using weird animal names, including mythical ones and hybrids. The Unicorn generation. The Caracara generation. Bandicoot, Quokka, Zedonk, Lyrebird...
Hey, you tried to keep it defined by statistics. I wonder why the idea that BB birthdates ranged later than that is so persistent.
I had never, ever heard of the Jones generation till someone posted it on this thread.
Think I’m gonna make up my own labels for each overlapping generation, using weird animal names, including mythical ones and hybrids. The Unicorn generation. The Caracara generation. Bandicoot, Quokka, Zedonk, Lyrebird...
Okay, what's the Unicorn generation? Is it those of us who came to age when Stevie Nicks hit with The Wild Heart? We are into unicorns, ballet, leg warmers and boots? Times of the Last Unicorn?
Or is it something darker, relating to the Unicorn Killer?
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1963 was mentioned. By then, the war had been over for the vast part of a generation.
I’ll be 36 in a little over a month. My girlfriend’s daughter will be 18 a little before my birthday. We’re not of the same generation 18 years apart.
My parents had seven kids. The first three born in 1947, 1950, and 1953. The last four born in 1960, 1963, 1966, and 1969.
Technically the first five are all "Boomers," while the last two are "GenX."
I have to say that the younger two "Boomers" (1960 & 63) have much more in common with the last two of us, in terms of experiences, mindset, memories, and what life was like growing up, than with the ones who were born right after WWII. (I'm the youngest.)
I'd never heard of "Jones Generation" either, but it does seem kind of ridiculous to think that my brother who is now 58 is classified with the "Boomers" like our 74-year-old brother, instead of GenX like our 55-year-old sister and me.
I was born in 1953 and my husband was born in 1956, but we grew up in virtually the same family, school and economic environments, and we have virtually identical opinions about the past as well as about current issues and politics. I don't think there is that much difference between those born in the 50's, although there was a definite difference in life experiences (and, therefore, differences in attitudes and opinions) between myself and my youngest sister who was born in 1964.
I have heard this term for a very long time. It helps differentiate the experiences that late boomers had vs. early boomers. They had almost nothing in common. The last year of generation Jones is 1964. Twenty years is too long for one generation to have shared experiences. Some early boomers had late boomer children. Does that make any sense?
IMO, generation jones should be 1957-1964.
I think a generation's perceived time varies depending on the rate of social change in the background. Yes, technically a generation is 18 years, but only technically. The rate of social change in the 1960s was a lot greater than before or maybe since so the perception of the background of a generation changes accordingly.
But I say again it's all marketing except for the actual boom.
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