# What Generation Are You **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 27, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715 "2009-09-27T02:37:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/1 "2009-09-27T02:37:46Z")
Restart of a thread closed for making too many polls at once. What generation are you in the Neil Howe-William Strauss Generational theory? ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/2 "2009-09-27T02:49:14Z")
Boomer here. But don’t you have Generation X a little early? I always thought they were born no earlier than the 1970s. ---
**Author:** ![Rigamarole](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/3 "2009-09-27T02:52:06Z")
Millenial. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/4 "2009-09-27T02:53:34Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Boomer here. But don’t you have Generation X a little early? I always thought they were born no earlier than the 1970s. I’m just following Messrs. Strauss and Howe’s years. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/5 "2009-09-27T04:59:03Z")
Gen X, 1978 (Grunge, flannel and Nirvana baby!) ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/6 "2009-09-27T05:02:55Z")
Gen X…whatever… ---
**Author:** ![RetroVertigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@RetroVertigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RetroVertigo)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/7 "2009-09-27T05:12:00Z")
Gen X ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/8 "2009-09-27T05:13:36Z")
Gen X. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/9 "2009-09-27T06:17:28Z")
The boom generation did not start in 1943. It began on January 1, 1946. ---
**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/10 "2009-09-27T06:53:04Z")
Booo, I’m not a fan of these guys’ gaps. I prefer the Gen.X, the Gen Y and the Generation XY transition period that occurred in between. Because I certainly don’t fit the X generation but I’m not a damn Generation Y person either… Then again, maybe I am a generation Y. Who cares? I guess we’re all winners here. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/11 "2009-09-27T06:58:32Z")
None. I’m a 1968 vintage, which would make me gen-X according to the OP, but I’m from Spain, so smack on the peak of our previous baby boom (there’s another one going on now), old enough to remember the dictatorship but raised in democracy… ---
**Author:** ![Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@Maggie\_the\_Ocelot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maggie_the_Ocelot)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/12 "2009-09-27T06:59:22Z")
Full on G’X. ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/13 "2009-09-27T07:55:57Z")
What the hell does “Civic” mean for Millennials? It should be “Whiny and Spoiled.” And where’s[Generation Jones](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Jones)? The dates for Gen X are far to broad. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/14 "2009-09-27T11:52:18Z")
“Other.” I was born in 1974 - part of the post-1973 war mini-boom - but the generation breaks are a bit different in Israel. My parents, who were born and raised in America, are classic Boomers - but that makes them pretty unique here. \*Their \*generation is very different than in America, and as a result, so is mine. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/15 "2009-09-27T12:35:52Z")
I’ve never heard of Millennial Generation, which is what I apparently am (and neither whiny nor spoiled, thanks, **garygnu**.) ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/16 "2009-09-27T14:42:09Z")
This is the first time I’m seen the millenials start in the 80s but I qualify, barely. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/17 "2009-09-27T15:39:15Z")
I was born in 79 but consider myself a millennial. I identify with them on social, scientific and political issues more than generation X. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/18 "2009-09-27T15:40:18Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > What the hell does “Civic” mean for Millennials? It should be “Whiny and Spoiled.” > . It means we care about things other than ourselves. You should try it. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/19 "2009-09-27T15:49:10Z")
Boomer. People try to put us down, just because we get around. ---
**Author:** ![Acid\_Lamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Acid\_Lamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acid_Lamp)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715/20 "2009-09-27T15:55:36Z")
X according to this poll. I was born in 80 and exhibit a classic split of characteristics. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-generation-are-you/511715.md?page=2)