Silent Generation is a label for the generation
of people born during the Great Depression
and World War II.
The label was originally applied to people
in North America but has also been applied
to those in Western Europe, Australasia and
South America.
It includes most of those who fought during
the Korean War.
In the United States, the generation was comparatively
small because the financial insecurity of
the 1920s and 1930s caused people to have
fewer children.
While there were many civil rights leaders,
writers, and artists, the Silent Generation
is called that because many focused on their
careers rather than on activism, and people
in it were largely encouraged to conform with
social norms.
Time Magazine coined the name in a 1951 article
entitled The Younger Generation, and the name
has stuck ever since.
References
See also
List of generations
External links
TIME Magazine, The Younger Generation, 1951
TIME Magazine, The Silent Generation Revisited,
1970
The Silent Generation
