Monday, September 29, 2008

Do You Know the Way to Santa Fe?

Never heard my generation referred to in this way or even so named, but coming across the "Generation X" wiki page, I came across this sub-category which supposedly puts me closer to the Baby Buster generation. Apparently those who were born between '58-'68 were part of a down-ward shift in the U.S. and Canadian birth rates.

The wiki goes on to say:
...Owning an early childhood flooded with televised images of protest, rapidly variegating morality, tragedy, and scandal, they have no recollection of a world in which authority was not constantly questioned but they were not old enough to affect changes like the true Boomers. By the time the Busters reached adolescence, Watergate had ended unquestioned authority; individuality was the new conformity, and hedonism the cultural ideal. Many were the first children of Boomers. They were also the first grade school students formally taught by the newly graduated Boomers from activist college campuses during the 1960s.....

This part is so true. I remember posting about my own education and how so many of my teachers were these young, hippy girls and Afro mammas straight out of college. They of course turned out to be my first crushes.....

Anyway, just wanted to share.

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