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In reply to the discussion: So, if you have one of these on your upper arm or thigh, [View all]CottonBear
(21,615 posts)37. Like me & Barack Obama, you're Generation Jones!
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Generation Jones is the social cohort[1][2] of the latter half of the Baby boomers to the first years of Generation X.[3][4][5][6] The term was first coined by the cultural commentator Jonathan Pontell, who identified the cohort as those born from 1954 to 1965 in the U.S.[7] who came of age during the oil crisis, stagflation, and the Carter presidency, rather than during the 1960s, but slightly before Gen X.[8] Other sources place the starting point at 1956[9] or 1957.[10][11] Unlike baby boomers, most of Generation Jones did not grow up with World War II veterans as fathers, and for them there was no compulsory military service and no defining political cause, as opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War had been for the older boomers.[12] Also, by 1955, a majority of U.S. households had at least one television set,[13] and so unlike Baby boomers born in the 1940s, many members of Generation Jones have never lived a world without television similar to how many members of Generation Z (19972012) have never lived in a world without personal computers or the internet, which a majority of U.S. households had by 2000 and 2001 respectively.[14] Unlike Generation X (19651980), Generation Jones was born before most of the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s and '70s.
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.[15][16][17][18] It is believed[by whom?] that Jonesers were given huge expectations as children in the 1960s, and then confronted with a different reality as they came of age during a long period of mass unemployment and when de-industrialization arrived full force in the mid-late 1970s and 1980s, leaving them with a certain unrequited "jonesing" quality for the more prosperous days of the past.
The generation is noted for coming of age after a huge swath of their older brothers and sisters in the earlier portion of the baby boomer population had come immediately preceding them; thus, many complain that there was a paucity of resources and privileges available to them that were seemingly abundant to older boomers. Therefore, there is a certain level of bitterness and "jonesing" for the level of freedom and affluence granted to older boomers but denied to them.[19]
The term has enjoyed some currency in political and cultural commentary, including during the 2008 United States presidential election, where Barack Obama (born 1961) and Sarah Palin (born 1964) were on the presidential tickets.
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I posted in another thread that the fancy girls' doctors did them on their upper
rzemanfl
Feb 2020
#2
Some also got the shot in their butts, too. When my sister was born in 1957 our parents debated....
George II
Feb 2020
#67
I remember polio and went to school with some kids that survived the disease.
Arkansas Granny
Feb 2020
#56
Post-Polio Syndrome is pretty horrible too. It seems to come back when the person is over 60 +/-
Hestia
Feb 2020
#144
I don't know about others here, but when my vaccination was done they used a little fork-like
Arkansas Granny
Feb 2020
#52
When I was 5 and we were leaving West Pakistan my whole family went for a round of shots
abqtommy
Feb 2020
#55
I have the scar. In my youth, I actually knew a young man who had had smallpox.
Shrike47
Feb 2020
#72
Mine is lost among the other scars, especially those caused by overexposure to the sun...
hunter
Feb 2020
#77
Mine is on my upper back because my mom didn't want me to have scarring on my arms.
The_REAL_Ecumenist
Feb 2020
#110