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http://www.npr.org/2011/11/02/141930849 ... t=1&f=1001

November 4, 2011
As a major new survey from Pew Research Center examines the generation gap in politics, we take a closer look at what, besides year of birth, differentiates one generation from the next. From the dawn of rock 'n' roll to the emergence of hip-hop, from "We Like Ike" to "Yes We Can," from a man on the moon to an iPhone in the pocket, here are some highlights from each of the four generations covered in the survey. We couldn't mention all of them here, so please share what you think are the defining moments of your own generation in the comments section below.

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The beginning of the 1960's actually started in 1963 with the assassination of JFK the ending occured August 1969 with the Manson "family" murders. The 1960's was a truly awsome and mesmorizing decade that tops everything since.

Oh yeah, there was that manned landing on the moon, too.

Hmmm. I think they have their ages wrong. I was always a Gen X baby and now I seem to be in the arse end of the Baby Boomers.

(Is this more proof that I am aging?)

I will take the dismantling of the Berlin Wall and I will add a small personal one of the Dismissal.

This event turned me forever towards the Labor Party, for better or worse, for richer for poorer.

dales wrote:The beginning of the 1960's actually started in 1963 with the assassination of JFK the ending occured August 1969 with the Manson "family" murders.

I always say the '60s started and ended with the defeat of Nixon. (I know that extends the decade to 1974, but that's how it's always felt to me.)

Anyway, My Generation:

dales wrote:http://www.npr.org/2011/11/02/141930849 ... t=1&f=1001

November 4, 2011
As a major new survey from Pew Research Center examines the generation gap in politics, we take a closer look at what, besides year of birth, differentiates one generation from the next. From the dawn of rock 'n' roll to the emergence of hip-hop, from "We Like Ike" to "Yes We Can," from a man on the moon to an iPhone in the pocket, here are some highlights from each of the four generations covered in the survey. We couldn't mention all of them here, so please share what you think are the defining moments of your own generation in the comments section below.

<snip>

The beginning of the 1960's actually started in 1963 with the assassination of JFK the ending occured August 1969 with the Manson "family" murders. The 1960's was a truly awsome and mesmorizing decade that tops everything since.

Oh yeah, there was that manned landing on the moon, too.

Hmmmm

I don't know. You can define a decade politically or culturally and even within each of those there are so many layers of meaning.

Musically and in literature I think the "60s" extended to the middle 70s but began with "on the road" written in 1951 and published in 1957. By the time that causes become effects in culture a lot of time can pass. It takes time for ideas to diffuse into the population, take root, and flower.

yrs,
rubato

Maybe what defines a generation are the things that were 'always there'; the things taken for granted as part of the cosmic background. For me, the threat of nuclear war with the EVIL COMMUNISTS and the population bomb were the biggest things which were just accepted as part of existence. Both have become illusions.

For the generation of women who were born after 1980 the effects of the feminist revolution were merely part of the background. It was a commonplace that women could expect to aspire to any position in society that men did and boring to the point of quaintness to hear about the latest "the first woman to do x" stories.

One of the paradoxical effects of successful social revolution is that following generations take for granted that which caused so much struggle and pain for those who went before.

yrs,
rubato

Damn straight.

( ... and thanks for reminding me of my blessings from those that went before.)

The Zodiac killer;



Cosby being fat, before it was phat;


Also;


Ultra mundo cool, especially back then;



The coolness can not be contested!

I grew up in the 50's and 60's and in retrospect can't imagine a better time to be a kid. My childhood was a Norman Rockwell master peice. I lived in a small town in central Pennsylvania where crime was almost nonexistant. No one locked their doors and your car keys remained in the ignition, so you didn't forget where they were. In my neighborhood every one knew every one and we all got along. The 60's were the most amazing years. There will never be another decade that will equal the music and the social awareness that took place.

At the very beginning of my life it was the cold war.
Kennedy was killed when I was in the second grade.
My dad was in the military the whole time I lived at home so the vietnam war loomed large.

While I have been on my own-16 forward.
Disco finally bit the dust.
End of the cold war.

Soooo I guess the biggest influence on my life was the cold war...