Magic Kingdom not as much patriotic anymore?

[correcaminos]

Technically, Boomers could have children born in 1965, just saying. They'd be first year Boomers, like my brother - and would have gotten married & started a family right out of high school. My mother was just 20 when her first child was born and had been married for 14 months.

Yes technically they could. I was just saying that they used some of those things to determine where a person falls. That's why years are fuzzy for beginning/end of generations. That said the article you listed picked a lot earlier than most do for Gen X vs Gen Y and the fault of that article was that those born in about '80 or before would remember the Challenger explosion quite well. So I would follow the Harvard study over the paid advertisement site. That's as someone who falls on the edge and has nothing in common with Millennial generations and how they grew up.

 

[LAKid53]

The name given to Gen Z is the Generation, since they are the first true internet generation.

All your statements regarding defining moments are valid, but many social scientists list those I've posted as shared ones that determine which generation one is a member of. My parents experienced all of them during their life time. But it's what happened in those formative years that social scientists use.

 

[correcaminos]

Do you change it to "One Nation under Canada" ?

I hope that was a joke otherwise that's rather offensive.

It's not hard to just say "One nation" <pause> "indivisible, with liberty and justice for all" Oddly that's like it was originally written before those fearing Communism added the "under God" Check the history. My parents both learned "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all' and then were told to change it as they got older.

The name given to Gen Z is the Generation, since they are the first true internet generation.

All your statements regarding defining moments are valid, but many social scientists list those I've posted as shared ones that determine which generation one is a member of. My parents experienced all of them during their life time. But it's what happened in those formative years that social scientists use.

Many do not, and not sure why you cannot admit that maybe the ones you picked were off and cut off too many years. Seems silly to argue when someone can factually say that their formative years were done before the millennium took place.

 

[Santa Raccoon 77]

I hope that was a joke otherwise that's rather offensive.

It's not hard to just say "One nation" <pause> "indivisible, with liberty and justice for all" Oddly that's like it was originally written before those fearing Communism added the "under God" Check the history. My parents both learned "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all' and then were told to change it as they got older.


Many do not, and not sure why you cannot admit that maybe the ones you picked were off. Seems silly to argue when someone can factually say that their formative years were done before the millennium took place.

It was a joke based on geographical location.

 

[Andrew C]

It was a joke based on geographical location.

except when you're in Maine...

 

[LAKid53]

I hope that was a joke otherwise that's rather offensive.

It's not hard to just say "One nation" <pause> "indivisible, with liberty and justice for all" Oddly that's like it was originally written before those fearing Communism added the "under God" Check the history. My parents both learned "I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all' and then were told to change it as they got older.


Many do not, and not sure why you cannot admit that maybe the ones you picked were off and cut off too many years. Seems silly to argue when someone can factually say that their formative years were done before the millennium took place.

In 1954 specifically. But the pledge prior to that wasn't the original. It was modified in 1923 to add the words "the Flag of the United States".

 

[correcaminos]

It was a joke based on geographical location.

Gotcha! I didn't think like that since I don't think I'm that close (even though it's about 200 or so miles away) - probably because we have to go through Michigan first which we avoid (yes a joke too)

 

[correcaminos]

In 1954 specifically. But the pledge prior to that wasn't the original. It was modified in 1923 to add the words "the Flag of the United States".

I worded that poorly. The original did not have God either which is what I was trying to say when I said "oddly like the original". My parents would have learned the one I quoted. The original was "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

Sorry I made it sound like that the version above was the original, it was just the version my parents learned.

 

[LAKid53]

I worded that poorly. The original did not have God either which is what I was trying to say. My parents would have learned the one I quoted. The original was "I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

Sorry I made it sound like that the version above was the original, it was just the version my parents learned.

Well, considering that the words Francis Scott Key wrote are sung to the tune of a British pub song (which probably explains the difficulty singing it) and that another patriotic song is the tune of God Save the King (Queen).....

 

[correcaminos]

Well, considering that the words Francis Scott Key wrote are sung to the tune of a British pub song (which probably explains the difficulty singing it) and that another patriotic song is the tune of God Save the King (Queen).....

Not sure what that had to do with the pledge... but yes that amuses me greatly to know one's a drinking song and the other is for the country we left

 

[LAKid53]

NPR yesterday continued its 29 year tradition of reading the Declaration of Independence on July 4th. So it decided to go 21st Century and tweeted the Declaration of Independence in 113 consecutive tweets, instead of reading it on air.

Sadly, some Americans aren't familiar with the document that listed the colonists' grievances and declared their intention to seek independence from England and the Crown. When NPR tweeted the section "it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government", some accused NPR of calling for revolution. Sad. Sad that on the day we celebrate our formal declaration of independence, many still don't know what that document says, beyond the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness phrase.