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The Silent Generation, also known as the Traditionalist Generation, is the Western demographic cohort following the Greatest Generation and preceding the baby boomers. The generation is generally defined as people born from 1928 to 1945. [1] By this definition and U.S. Census data, there were 23 million Silents in the United States as of 2019. [2]
Check out this breakdown from the silent generation to Gen Alpha based on birth years. ... would be drastically different than the one before and therefore needed a distinct name," according to ...
This generation is known for being digital natives, even more so than Gen Z, having been born into a world that is fully integrated with technology, social media and global connection.
The greatest generation (hero archetype), also known as the G.I. generation and the World War II generation, is the demographic cohort following the lost generation and preceding the silent generation. Strauss and Howe define the cohort as individuals born between 1901 and 1924.
This group represents slightly more than half of the generation, or roughly 38,002,000 people. The other half of the generation, usually called "Generation Jones", but sometimes also called names like the "late boomers" or "trailing-edge baby boomers", was born between 1956 and 1964, and came of age after Vietnam and the Watergate scandal.
Most of the oft-forgotten Gen Xers are children of early boomers and the Silent Generation, who partly got their name for grinning and bearing extreme economic hardship as they grew up during the ...
The name "Generation Jones" has several connotations, including a large anonymous generation, a "keeping up with the Joneses" competitiveness and the slang word "jones" or "jonesing", meaning a yearning or craving.
“I have written about how lucky I am to have grown up in the best era ever to be a kid. We had it all. Good music. Cheap gas. Safety. Security. And parents that let us be kids.”