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"Chookie" <ehrebeniuk@fowlspambegone.com.au> wrote in message 
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> In article <mSKnh.2414$A8.2035@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
> "0tterbot" <spl@t.com> wrote:
>
>> it's an interesting theory - the only problem i can find with it is that 
>> i
>> think it doesn't pan out in reality :-) i'd have to think about that more 
>> to
>> be sure where i stand on it, but as a 36y.o. child of baby boomers (dh is 
>> 38
>> & also the child of boomers), it certainly doesn't work in our house, &
>> thinking of people i know, it doesn't seem to work there either.
> <snip>
>> my parents were always broke when we were growing up - do you think that
>> might be the real key? privilege vs lack thereof?
>
> Yes -- I was going to list the exceptions but didn't bother.

I think there are too many exceptions to make the whole generalisation 
become irrelevant.  It would depend on personality, finance, where they 
live, family life, parents, all these things in their upbringing, even 
religion, culture and values would have some impact, as well as life 
experiences.

I don't think this generalisation works actually.

Jen

For example,
> Boomer-age migrants generally don't have the Boomer mindset because they
> didn't have the usual Boomer experiences -- they were too busy learning
> English/working/studying/saving.  The ones who migrated for purely 
> economic
> reasons, however, have children who are a lot like Baby-Boomers, because 
> the
> parents are giving the kids everything they missed out on themselves, such 
> as
> fancy weddings.
>
> My sister has a friend whose parents put money away every week for her
> wedding.  By the time she was 21 they had so much money in the account 
> that
> they used some of it to pay for the 21st... All the guests got a 
> half-bottle
> of champagne to take home.  Inscribed with the girl's name and birthday
> details!  Goodness knows what they did for the wedding.  Engraved ingots 
> as
> bomboniere?!
>
> So yes, if your Boomer parents were very poor, that's probably why you 
> don't
> think like that.  They had better things to do than consider their own
> self-actualisation, or do I mean self-aggrandisement.
>
> -- 
> Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
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>
> "Parenthood is like the modern stone washing process for denim jeans. You 
> may
> start out crisp, neat and tough, but you end up pale, limp and wrinkled."
> Kerry Cue