Like I said there are many different opinions on this matter, yes the 1946-1964 range is mostly used due to the post WW2 baby boom, literally where the terminology comes from, just like Greatest Greatest is extended form 1900-1924 to describe the generation of WW2 participants. Thats why it is claimed US didnt have a President from Silent Generation as Bush Sr was born in 1924 and a WW2 veteran. But this list too is widely accepted because of its basis on traits and the environment they grew up. Prior to the lost generation , which is absurdly dated "1883 to 1900" just to include mainly the WW1 generation and then Greatest Generation extended "1901-1824" it was widely accepted that since 1 AD generations were classified within a 20 year time frame, say 1 AD to 20 AD and so on. That is all based on Strauss–Howe generational theory, which starts with the Reformation Generation (born 1483–1511) , these classifications are all based on events. But based on traits, personality and stuffs the list I gave is has one of the most widely accepted time frame.
That was "a baby boom", not the only "baby boom". Baby booms have happened before, in the past due to diseases like small pox, tetanus, tb, malaria, cholera, plague, etc which were at the time incurable, mortality was so high that despite high birth rates, they did not offset death rates and hence population was under control. Things changed due to raid medical advancement in the 20th C, and birth rates exceeds death rates by a wide margin, world population grew from barely 1 billion in 1900 to 6 billion in 2000, and now is near 8 billion. The 1980s also saw a huge baby boom, that is why millennial are referred to as the next baby boomers, or echo boomers often times. Regardless Strauss–Howe classifies it "1943–1960" , and even if we take 1946-1960, the huge population control campaigns that were undertaken in the 60s and 70s, that have sadly been abandoned around the 1980s sadly. My main point is the WW2 baby boomers generation do not stretch beyond 1960, and there have been baby booms on other periods, including the 1980s.
Yeah, well fuck Strauss Howe.
If the baby boom ended in 1964 then people born up until 1964 are a part of that baby boom. Thats how it was before Strauss-Howe and that's the way it still is. There will always be someones attempt at rewriting history.
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Baby Boomers were born between 1946-1964.
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Like I said there are many different opinions on this matter, yes the 1946-1964 range is mostly used due to the post WW2 baby boom, literally where the terminology comes from, just like Greatest Greatest is extended form 1900-1924 to describe the generation of WW2 participants. Thats why it is claimed US didnt have a President from Silent Generation as Bush Sr was born in 1924 and a WW2 veteran. But this list too is widely accepted because of its basis on traits and the environment they grew up. Prior to the lost generation , which is absurdly dated "1883 to 1900" just to include mainly the WW1 generation and then Greatest Generation extended "1901-1824" it was widely accepted that since 1 AD generations were classified within a 20 year time frame, say 1 AD to 20 AD and so on. That is all based on Strauss–Howe generational theory, which starts with the Reformation Generation (born 1483–1511) , these classifications are all based on events. But based on traits, personality and stuffs the list I gave is has one of the most widely accepted time frame.
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Oh okay
A)"...yes the 1946-1964 range is mostly used due to the post WW2 baby boom, literally where the terminology comes from..."
B)"...the list I gave is has one of the most widely accepted time frame."
It's either A or B. Logic would suggest if a person is born during a baby boom, then they are part of the baby boom.
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That was "a baby boom", not the only "baby boom". Baby booms have happened before, in the past due to diseases like small pox, tetanus, tb, malaria, cholera, plague, etc which were at the time incurable, mortality was so high that despite high birth rates, they did not offset death rates and hence population was under control. Things changed due to raid medical advancement in the 20th C, and birth rates exceeds death rates by a wide margin, world population grew from barely 1 billion in 1900 to 6 billion in 2000, and now is near 8 billion. The 1980s also saw a huge baby boom, that is why millennial are referred to as the next baby boomers, or echo boomers often times. Regardless Strauss–Howe classifies it "1943–1960" , and even if we take 1946-1960, the huge population control campaigns that were undertaken in the 60s and 70s, that have sadly been abandoned around the 1980s sadly. My main point is the WW2 baby boomers generation do not stretch beyond 1960, and there have been baby booms on other periods, including the 1980s.
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Yeah, well fuck Strauss Howe.
If the baby boom ended in 1964 then people born up until 1964 are a part of that baby boom. Thats how it was before Strauss-Howe and that's the way it still is. There will always be someones attempt at rewriting history.
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Agree with that, its a based on perceptions.