BobRingReflections

Recently I was wondering if generational differences in my fellow residents in the Hacienda at the Canyon retirement community have any effect on how we interact with each other.  I also wondered about difficulties we might have with the current culture.  We’re all seniors of course or we wouldn’t be living here, and mostly of two generations:  the Silent Generation (born from 1928 - 1945) and the Baby Boomer Generation (born from 1946 - 1964).  So, I decided to do some research and write about these subjects.  After an introduction, I will discuss the Silent and Baby Boomer Generations in turn.  For each generation, I will identify key historical events that helped shape the cultural traits of the generation, and the generation’s supposed core traits.  I will then summarize the similarities and differences between the two generations, and then the biggest difficulties these (senior) generations reportedly have with the current culture.  Lastl...