What's your Generation?

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Fenner

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I am Generation x, born in 1970. In college I had to write a paper defending my generation. I had to write why I thought my Generation wasn't full of spoiled lazy idiots. The sad thing about this labeling of Generations is that people tend to clump us all together. As I went to high school and worked almost every day after school and on weekend, I was told by a lot of the older generation that our generation was lazy and we had everything so easy. I hear that about every generation, oh the Millennials are spoiled and lazy and they expect everything handed to them. It seems very unfair to me that we're all lumped into these categories because of the worlds view of what younger people are like.

Yesterday I was at the mall. I was sitting in the food court eating lunch. They have this chain pizza restaurant. This older man walks up to the counter and starts yelling at them about how it's not real Italian food and they're to lazy to make anything else. He asked one of the guy's if he new how to make Pasta E Fagioli? He said, no, then he went on about how it easy it is to make and he was a lazy young person. He may have been senile. But it's pretty common that older generations think less of younger generations. I think that's to bad.
 

Demi777

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yea im from the generation 2000. Ppl always degrade people for their age. Its always been that way. Its always the same. Your always too young or too old. I usually ignored it when people attacked me but by now I always turn it around lol. Its not like everyone grew up adult besides me. Plus people always tend to believe everyone is like they were..they dont like hearing that. I see how many ppl around my age are spoiled and lazy..the craziest for me is to see like 6yr olds runnin around with a touch screen phone and tablet. Yet that gives no one the right to judge.
 
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wwjd_kilden

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I feel like I am stuck in the gap between two generations (but who knows, maybe everyone does?)

I was raised while thee were still few tech gadgets, and now they are everywhere.
I was raised in a sort of bible belt, or at least in a Christian society , then as a teenager started a new school where everyone were talking about sex, drugs and, well, not rock and roll, but techno.

I feel I was born in the wrong age, but I suspect I'd feel that way no matter when I was born.
 

notmyown

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this one :cool:

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wwjd_kilden

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lol. Well said
 

tourist

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I feel like I am stuck in the gap between two generations (but who knows, maybe everyone does?)

I was raised while thee were still few tech gadgets, and now they are everywhere.
I was raised in a sort of bible belt, or at least in a Christian society , then as a teenager started a new school where everyone were talking about sex, drugs and, well, not rock and roll, but techno.

I feel I was born in the wrong age, but I suspect I'd feel that way no matter when I was born.
I sometime feel like I was born in the wrong century.

Still like that old time rock n roll. That kind of music just soothes the soul. I reminisce about the days of old. With that old time rock n roll.

Maybe it's time to get with the program and give techno a whirl on the dance floor.
 
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jennymae

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I sometime feel like I was born in the wrong century.

Still like that old time rock n roll. That kind of music just soothes the soul. I reminisce about the days of old. With that old time rock n roll.

Maybe it's time to get with the program and give techno a whirl on the dance floor.
Lol, I think I was born 50 years too late given my taste in music.

Right now listening to Buddy Jewell, but he aint that old:)
 
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MadParrotWoman

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I was born in 1959 so I don't know anything about the 50's - the decade I was born into and I remember little about the 60's. Being a teenager in the 70's was truly awesome and I wouldn't change a thing. I didn't much notice the 80's except the music was pants lol. Wish I'd come to Christ a lot sooner - I would have known so much more and also avoided many mistakes. It is what it is though and it was all in God's timing.
 

notmyown

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I was born in 1959 so I don't know anything about the 50's - the decade I was born into and I remember little about the 60's. Being a teenager in the 70's was truly awesome and I wouldn't change a thing. I didn't much notice the 80's except the music was pants lol. Wish I'd come to Christ a lot sooner - I would have known so much more and also avoided many mistakes. It is what it is though and it was all in God's timing.
i came to Christ fairly young, and my sentiments still match your own. :(

but think of the praise we can and will give to God forever. He saved us in spite of ourselves!

ps-- i was born in May of '59, and my horrible son actually asked me what it was like in the fifties. :rolleyes:
 
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MadParrotWoman

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i came to Christ fairly young, and my sentiments still match your own. :(

but think of the praise we can and will give to God forever. He saved us in spite of ourselves!

ps-- i was born in May of '59, and my horrible son actually asked me what it was like in the fifties. :rolleyes:
LOL kids are cruel ;)
 

tourist

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i came to Christ fairly young, and my sentiments still match your own. :(

but think of the praise we can and will give to God forever. He saved us in spite of ourselves!

ps-- i was born in May of '59, and my horrible son actually asked me what it was like in the fifties. :rolleyes:
Those were Happy Days.
 

Reborn

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My daughter is 9, her generation will be the greatest ever.


...idk?, l can only go off what her Facebook updates tell me.
 

EmilyNats

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I've actually never had my age attacked. Most seem to like me, or at least be indifferent towards me. :cool:
 

Fenner

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yea im from the generation 2000. Ppl always degrade people for their age. Its always been that way. Its always the same. Your always too young or too old. I usually ignored it when people attacked me but by now I always turn it around lol. Its not like everyone grew up adult besides me. Plus people always tend to believe everyone is like they were..they dont like hearing that. I see how many ppl around my age are spoiled and lazy..the craziest for me is to see like 6yr olds runnin around with a touch screen phone and tablet. Yet that gives no one the right to judge.

You're Generation Z, my Kid's are too. You guy's are basically going to be known as the technical generation. I really think you guy's will be doing stuff that is going to be amazing. My kid's know a lot about technology and how it works. It's incredible to me. What I also like about your Generation is that there doesn't seem to be these Girls aren't good at math or science Notion anymore.You guy's are going to do some life changing things.
 

breno785au

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I feel like I am stuck in the gap between two generations (but who knows, maybe everyone does?)

I was raised while thee were still few tech gadgets, and now they are everywhere.
I was raised in a sort of bible belt, or at least in a Christian society , then as a teenager started a new school where everyone were talking about sex, drugs and, well, not rock and roll, but techno.

I feel I was born in the wrong age, but I suspect I'd feel that way no matter when I was born.
We are what they call 'millennials'.
 

Yeraza_Bats

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I dont totally feel like I relate to the rest of my generation. At the same time, I dont feel like I relate to any other generation either : p

I guess I dont really consider the generation people were born into when I think about people. I mean I do think about trends, the way people think and act and whats popular at that time and all that, but like even though today is much different than yesterday, I see tons of people who lived through yesterday in their youth who go on about how today is the greatest the world has ever been : p

Of course I am not a big fan of todays world, but I also cant say I really think any decade or era was really "good", I guess. Its a fallen world, so theres always something broken somewhere. Where we progress in one spot, we take a biiig step back in another.

In less serious ways, like the pop culture and how people live their lives, of course its awful : p I cant imagine a worse era for music than this one. Like theyre really just removing melody from music entirely, relying on simple rhythms exclusively with an over the top singer singing about themselves in some vain way while their listeners identify with the singers life. Even lyrically music has gotten dumber and more crude.
Things that were once really great and fun are having a negative impact on people, every young male I work with at my job spends less time working hard to get the job done, and more time just standing around talking about video games. And thats all they ever freaking talk about. They just spend all day at work day dreaming about video games, so I definitely think they have a negative impact on society.

Theres alot about this generation I dont like, but thats generally true about just about any decade anyway : p Every decade had people who talked about how their generation was the worst, and I agree with them : p
 

Fenner

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I think we all kind of feel like I'd fit in better in that Generation. I always thought I would have fit in well with the Generation that would have been teenagers in the 50's, but if I would have been a teen then, I may have thought, I wish I had lived during the 1920's.

Being a kid in the 70's was cool I guess. My Mom and Dad let me run around the neighborhood most of the day and there was always something to do, basketball or baseball with neighborhood friends. Everyone in our neighborhood knew everyone. You couldn't get away with anything. But if you were outside playing one of the Mom's would come out with water for us and sometimes a snack. Or if you were playing and got hurt someone always had a bandaid. I had who I call my other parents down the street, when they moved in they didn't have children yet. The wife was from England and she was and is the sweetest woman. They had a huge garden and they let me help and she taught me how to make bread and he told me that beer was better for me than pop and let me have a swig of beer now and then. When they had their own kid's and when I was old enough I babysat for them and just about everyone in the neighborhood who had little kid's. Unfortunately we don't live in that kind of neighborhood. Everyone works and there aren't a lot of kid's. I do know some of my neighbors but only two very well. There are a couple of kid's that live around the corner that are nice but we don't see them often. I wish my kid's grew up the same way I did.

Being a teenager in the eighties was fun, for the most part. When I look at old pictures we all had hideous hair and clothes, but there was some really good music and I still remember when MTV started, we went to my friends house because we didn't have cable yet. We watched them play the first video ever on MTV, Video killed the radio star and freaked out. We used actually videos on MTV. Do they still show videos on MTV, I don't have cable.

I feel like the Generation younger than me have a lot more struggles now. Working with kid's at church and school I see the younger generations being more open minded and less judgemental I've worked with and have friends with teenagers who volunteer a lot of their free time. I also feel like the millennial generation has been harshly judged. I know they aren't entitled brats. Their are entitled people in all generations. I think the younger generations are going to have a huge mess to deal with. It's so hard to find a job now and if you go to college you might be in debt for years. It's sad to me what's going on in the world. I sincerely hope that the new generations make a better world.
 
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mailmandan

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Being a kid in the 70's was cool I guess. My Mom and Dad let me run around the neighborhood most of the day and there was always something to do, basketball or baseball with neighborhood friends. Everyone in our neighborhood knew everyone. You couldn't get away with anything.
I can relate to this.

Being a teenager in the eighties was fun, for the most part.
I had a blast in the 80's! :cool:

When I look at old pictures we all had hideous hair and clothes, but there was some really good music and I still remember when MTV started, we went to my friends house because we didn't have cable yet. We watched them play the first video ever on MTV, Video killed the radio star and freaked out. We used actually videos on MTV. Do they still show videos on MTV, I don't have cable.
I watched MTV a lot when I was a teenager, but it has completely changed today. You'll need to watch "Rock Fest" on VH1 Classic if you want to see videos from MTV back in the day. I remember when they first launched MTV in August of 1981. Me and my friends were watching in anticipation of a good rock song and then that song "Video killed the radio star" came on as the first song and we were thinking, "what is this?" lol

I feel like the Generation younger than me have a lot more struggles now. I think the younger generations are going to have a huge mess to deal with. It's so hard to find a job now and if you go to college you might be in debt for years. It's sad to me what's going on in the world. I sincerely hope that the new generations make a better world.
I completely agree and I feel like our society has changed so much from the time that I was a kind that sometimes I feel like I live on a different planet! :eek: