For the uninitiated, Generation Jones is the large, heretofore lost, generation between the baby boomers and Generation X. Born in the years 1954 to 1965, Jonesers are not a small cusp generation that slipped through the cracks but rather the largest generation in American history, constituting 26 percent of all U.S. adults today. Mistakenly, they were originally lumped in with boomers for one reason only: their parents and boomers' parents happened to have a lot of kids.But generational personalities come from shared formative experiences, not head counts. This original flawed definition of the baby-boom generation has become widely discredited among experts, which is partly what's given rise to the emergence of Generation Jones, a cohort with significantly different attitudes and values than those held by its surrounding generations.
Sorry but they are boomers. We (Gen-Reagan) are the Baby Bust generation (lower birth numbers).
Associate with whoever y'all wish and distance yourself from some of the "baby boom" but it is all a part of the same block that forever changed society's mores and social institutions.
A generation is typically ~20-25 years so 1946-1964 IS a generation. Deal with it.
Its pretty hard for most of them to accept this...seeing as they don't understand accepting responsibility, common sense, and consequences to their actions. They gave us victimhood, political correctness, "if it feels good...do it!", latch key kids, the feminist movement, a bloated national deficit to fund their entitlements, birth control/abortion, and gross degredation to the nations morality and innocence of our youth. Not suprising though...what would you expect out of a group of people who are flaming, "Me, Me, Me" anti-God, anti-life, anti-freedom, anti-truth and anti-American socialists.
A little harsh don't ya think? (Obviously not a Joneser)
Jonesers are the kids of the Korean War vets. There is a whole
different dynamic. I can tell you, as little kids, we all laughed at the whole
hippy peace and love crowd. FYI, most advertising and marketing firms
truncate generations at 10 years.
These people are Americans just like you. Some are conservative and some are liberal. Guilt by age seems to be a new theme with Gen X'ers who also seem to be obsessed with some kind of inferiority complex that makes them beat their chests over nothing.
I'll call myself an American rather than a Gen Anything and you can deal with that.
What does the Jones mean? Actually, I thought we were Brady Boomers, defined as all the guys who wanted to pork Marcia, and were young enough that it wouldn't have been a crime.
Sorry, I don't agree. I was 4 years old in 1968, not exactly old enough to "shape society's mores" the way that the early hippies did.
Demographically, by pure numbers, Jones may be part of the boom, but in no way are we psychologically Boomers as they are classically described.
By the way, Strauss and Howe define Gen-X as starting in 1961, not 1965, and with the amount of generational research they've done I trust their analysis far more than the media that only lives by the numbers.
Deal with it, yourself.
To prove your point, lets pick the year 1969, and better yet Woodstock. The problem with lumping all boomers together throughout that long time span is that some of us weren't old enough to drive, vote, go on dates, or go to Woodstock in 1969.
In fact, I was only 12 in 1969 and I was more worried about entering junior high the next fall. Back then, I didn't even know or care what Woodstock was all about. I only remember seeing the "war" on TV at dinner time and idiots like Dan Rather reporting from the "DMZ".
The generation that fought in Vietnam did not include the boomers born in 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, and so on. We were too young. Vietnam ended on my 18th birthday when Saigon fell in 1975.
By that time, society's mores and social institutions had already changed; changed forever by those who graduated high school in the early to mid 60's...People I could not relate to in thought or lifestyle.