I'm in the Silent Generation, but I'm neither traditional or silent. Before me were the Great Generation, those men and women fought WWII.

I'm what some might think of as being an older Millennial , as I was born in '83 . I somewhat feel as if I might have as mjjch if not more in common with Gen Xers than with the younger Millennials .

I don't consider myself part of a particular generation. Technically I'm at the tail end of the baby boom, just old enough to remember the later protests but too young to participate. I missed out on the turbulence, passion, and idealism of the 60's and came of age in the more cynical 70's and early 80's. I remember Watergate, the end of Vietnam, and when Ford told NYC to essentially drop dead... I do see a lot of younger people now making light of a lot of rights that boomers fought for. Even though I don't remember the protests, I remember the first impact of those changes.

You have gotten your years wrong gen X goes to 1982

Interesting. Lots of baby boomers

I'm a young Boomer. I find that the Silents are on death's door so I mostly just read about them in books or know about them through my own grandparents. The Traditionalists--those born too late to fight in WWII or Korea but too early to be millennials--have a good work ethic and some very good civic values at the local level, but they are also still more racist, xenophobic, sexist, and homophobic as a group (nothing against those who are on this site as I believe they are outliers). I'm actually quite fond of the generations that followed mine and especially the Y's and Millennials. I'm in classes these days with many of them, and I think the kids are all right. They aren't as backstabbing and competitive as those of us who came of age in the era of Reagan and "Greed is Good". So what if everyone gets a gold star? High fives and let's take a group selfie of our wonderful results!

I'm not going to speak ill of the dead.
Hindsight is always 20/20, and most of us have the benefit of having lived
a good bit of history.
I think they did the best they could with what they had. They fought two World Wars, and I'm not going to slam them.
Mistakes are ALWAYS made. All we can do is learn from them.

Xennial here. Generally I'm just miffed that the prior generations biffed everything badly enough that we land ourselves in our current state. Then have the audacity to blame it on the younger generations.

traditionalists? i have not heard that. war generation is a better description i think. what i think is they got so hung up escaping the depression and fighting the war that they forgot that making sure their kids (me and the rest of the boomers) wanted for nothing materially was not enough -- that there is more to life and we would explore the brave new world for better or for worse. not everyone from the war generation was horrified by rock n roll, civil rights (including for women and lgbtq) or anti-war protests. we had a lot of allies from that generation. "don't trust anyone over 30" was one circulating catchphrase but it wasn't the only one, and it wasn't adopted by everyone. the generation gap was real but it was wider at some points and narrower at others. i was a tad too young to be a hippie, was more of a flower child, but i still consider myself an old hippie. i wasn't one of the rotc, ricky nelson young republicans, that's for sure. they horrified me then and their modern counterparts horrify me now (hmm, what would they have instead of ricky -- donny and marie, themselves now somewhat elderly?)

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GenX. I am tired of the bullshit many Boomers still cling to, especially the fact that they think jobs just grow on fucking trees.

I'm more well-disposed to millennials and younger, as long as they grow out the Tumblr phase.

I'm a Boomer. Have always been a hippie at heart. My parents were easygoing and laid back, hardly typical of their generation. They neglected to indoctrinate us to racism, consumerism, and intolerance. My mother found religion a comfort during her difficult childhood and continued to practice but never forced it on us. We decided for ourselves. Our family unit was fairly self-sufficient and while not antisocial, we were not big joiners either.

I get along with Baby Boomers but tend to have different ideologies.

I'm a Gen-Xer and we are just trying to keep our heads down and stay out of the conflict between those before and after us. I do think the baby boomers need to take some ownership in all the things they blame on millennials. Those 6 year olds weren't the ones buying those participation trophies, after all.

Missed babyboomer by three months.

The generation before mine were the heroes of WWII.

Older millenial here. I get along well with most gen Xers. At least they didnt sell out quite as hard as the boomers did on average.

I’m a Gen X. I have three sisters that are baby boomers. We have nothing in common when in comes to music or style.