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The Me Generation

The Real 'Me Generation'

Tyler Kingkade | Posted 05.09.2013 | College
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Tyler Kingkade

Every generation has its quirks, its slang, its flaws, but it seems too often Gen-Xers in primarily old media outlets cast the behavior of teenagers in the millennial generation as representative of everyone in the age group, whether they're 14 or 29.

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Finding Hope in the Next Generation

Karin Kasdin | Posted 02.06.2013 | Fifty
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Karin Kasdin

It was my contemporaries for whom the moniker "The Me Generation" was coined. Yes, there were hippies whose activism ended the Vietnam War, but there were also hippies who did nothing but smoke weed in their basements while listening to Joplin. Beware of sweeping generalizations.

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1950s: The Not-So-Silent Generation

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
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Tom Alderman

Fred Kaplan's enlivening 1959: The Year Everything Changed, argues that the '50s -- a decade that saw the invention of the microchip and the creation of explosive art -- has been misunderstood in hindsight.

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