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Originally Posted by sycamore

You realize that you are a baby boomer (1946-64), right?

No, I go by Strauss & Howe's 13th Generation 1961-1981.

survived a hurried childhood of divorce, latchkeys, open classrooms and devil-child movies. They came of age curtailing the earlier rise in youth crime and fall in test scores — yet heard themselves denounced as so wild and stupid as to put The Nation At Risk. As young adults, maneuvering thru a sexual battlescape of AIDS and blighted courtship rituals, they date and marry cautiously. In jobs, they embrace risk and prefer free agency over loyal corporatism. From grunge to hip-hop, their culture reveals a hardened edge. Politically, they lean toward pragmatism and non-affiliation and would rather volunteer than vote. Widely criticized as "slackers," the non-techies among them have faced a Reality Bites economy of declining young-adult living standards.