What's this bull with Gen Y going to the end of the '90s, much less into the zeroes?
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Generation Y 1982-2003\niGeneration 1986-2000\nNew Silent Generation 2001-
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Apparently, you're not old enough to have seen prejudice in must greater extreme. "These days" are pretty tolerant compared to the 60's and earlier.
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I've known stubborn set-in-their-ways people who were 7-years old.  I've known enthusiastic, open-minded, ready to learn and take on new challenges people in their 90s.  My guess is that people are who they are and the years just pile on after that, and it's who they are deep down that will see them open to change or not.\n\nBut my opinion isn't written in stone.  I'm open to changing it.\n\n;)
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The 60's were definitely an era of change in more than one area. It was a revolution of sorts. Not all the boomers were into free love, sex, and drugs. Throw in the Vietnam War and there was a lot of controversy about the times, the generation, the beliefs at the time.....it was as each significant era distinctly its' own. I lived it, didn't agree with all of it, look back try to make sense of it all, and realize your kids just like you are gonna do what they are gonna do, and all the song and dance doesn't stop it merely changes. You usually don't learn from someone elses mistakes unfortunately. So ironic and humorous not really simply par for the course......of life.
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Go to the 40's and find out
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not in this decade...
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Inflated.  He should be down in the 20s by now.
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Sounds like W to me.  I've heard that he believes that the current generation is the last one before the apocolypse, so he doesn't need to worry about the future.  It would explain his policies on international affairs, the ecology, and the economy.
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Generation X is the term for people born in the Western world after WWII (1961-1981).  Generation Y (1982-1995) is the group you are a part of.  Generation Y is generally considered to be the last generation of Americans wholly born in the 20th century.
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ugh... alternation of generations
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Are you a child of the 80's? Well then I am with you. The music started going downhill when the 90's began. All it about these days is hip-hop and rap. Sad, isn't it?
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Have we entered some time-warp back to the 80s?
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I wasn't gonna answer this question, but the more I thought about it, I figured I may as well.  I think the 80s were.  Well.. no... maybe the 60s.  AW HELL I don't like this question.  I say the 60s for breaking down the racial wall.  (Not that they were fun times, at all, but the strength of those fighting was amazing and did wonders for society today).  But in the 80s we realized that we are a united country that can fight for hunger and sickness. Remember when AIDS came out?? Suddenly musicians took a stand to do more with their money than spend it on parachute pants and cases of hairspray. It was a time when the nation came together with Hands Across America and Live Aid, etc etc etc.  Kids in my school started focusing on world news, instead of highschool ball scores. We had presidents shot at, a Beatle was murdered, space shuttles exploded, Russia toke their finger off the button, gays and lesbians were coming out all over the place and fighting for their equallity.  Microwaves became a household product. Didn't viagra hit the market in the late 80s? lol  It was a year of eye opening things. Maybe not a technological boom, as much as a psychological boom.  Shrinks were less shunned upon. Divorces were no longer taboo. Massive hurricanes hit the coast, and I personally saw neighborhoods becoming one family- taking care of each other like none before.  Limits were being put on music and euthanasia issues hit the scene when a girl named Teri Shaivo was in coma, and her parents wanted to keep her alive, while her husband wanted to pull the plug.  Walls fell in Germany. The 80s really influenced the way I saw the world.  It seemed almost like the decade pulled many countries closer together so our people and their people could hug. I'm not sure what happened in the 90s, and I'm not so sure the 2000-2010 decade will be much better.
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I think there was more of a sense of optimism and greed. To me the 90's were more of a time of adventure and extreme stuff. The 80's were all about me and how I can improve myself.
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While it seems bad, look at teens in the 60s and 70s. They matured, more or less. Now thirty years later civilization remains and pushes on. I think we will be okay.
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Answer to Giggly Giraffe--\n\nDo you really believe that the entire "Baby Boomer" generation were all hippies? My mother is one of this generation and she says "Absolutely not!" The Americans who solve every problem by pills are victims of profit marketing by drug companies. \n\nAnd what does your reply have to do with the question of foreign attitudes to US social conservatism?
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Yes there is a terrible decline in behavior, manners and rudness!  My feeling is that people have become more and more selfish with each generation.   There is a desperate lack of consideration for anyone but yourself.  Things like road rage, talking on your cell phone in the movie theater, cutting in line ahead of others, tell people around you that you think you are more important than anyone else around and just put up with it because you're allowed to be rude.  But god forbid someone should do any of those things to you!  Sorry to use the word you so much.  Not directed at anyone in particular, hahaha.