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Remarkable Fireworks in Sydney Celebrating 2010 New Year.
Hong Kong New Year Countdown Celebrations 2010
How Aging Boomers Will Change the Economy - Walter Shapiro
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/04/10/R... Economist Robert Shapiro projects how economies around the world may respond to the aging of the Baby Boom generation. ----- Simon Rosenberg hos...
The baby boomer generation are considered to be those born in the twenty or so years after World War Two ended, and the world at large saw a massive boom in the population as it recovered from the devastating affects of war on such a large scale.
Hey! I've Heard Of Him!
It really is little wonder that with such a massive addition to the population, the world has heard of more than a few of the baby boomer generation members, and many of them have gone on to make a huge impact on the world they grew up in.
The baby boomer generation years started in about 1943, and just a few years later in forty six two bouncing baby boys were born, and both would go on to become President's of the United States of America, both to be remembered forever on the pages of history books.
Bill Clinton was born in the August of that year, and took his place in the White House in 1993, becoming the 42nd President, and serving his country for the eight years that followed, and was the first of the baby boomer generation members to become president.
When he left office, he was replaced by the second member of the baby boomer generation to become president, George W Bush, who took his office in 2001 and served his eight years until 2009 becoming the 43rd president, and following in the footsteps of his father George H W Bush the 41st president of the United States of America.
His replacement is also considered part of the baby boomer generation, although some would say only just, as there was debate and controversy over the actually dates that qualify a birth as part of the boom, however most people are happy to concur that the baby boomer generation ended in 1964.
If this is to be accepted, then 44th president Barack Obama is certainly a member of the baby boomer generation as he was born in 1961, and came to office 2009, where he remains in office, early into his service, and his election and campaign caused much media coverage and controversy, being the first coloured president.
Those in England also saw their future prime minister born into the baby boomer generation, Tony Blair was born in 1953, and was elected to lead his party in office in 1997, where he remained in office for ten years until 2007 when he chose to resign and hand control of the country to Gordon Brown.
A proverb says: "Tell me what you read, I tell who you are". This morning, it came to me the idea to write about the persons who influenced me as an intellectual person from baby boomers generation, believes in freedom, justice, and human rights. Those I read or know about through my young life as a high school student, and afterwards as a teacher and TV employee and were role models, formulating my life. I was connected mentally and politically with five great persons: Mao Zedong of China, Jamal Abdul-Nassir of Egypt, Che Guevara of Cuba, and Dwight Eisenhower, and John F, Kennedy of the USA. All were living in my time between 1950 to 1975.
In 1956, the school attended a film at Zarqa-Jordan. The film was about King Hussein of Jordan to the USA visit. When Eisenhower was president. The first time I heard about America. That memory remained in my mind and pushed me all times to achieve my stay in life at the United States of America. It's too strange for a 11 years old person to love America from that time.
My mentality still follow their steps in looking to the world. Where justice, identity, and dignity are most important for people everywhere. From Mao I learned that one person can make the difference, from Jamal Abdul-Nassir I learned to be an Arab over national identity, as Jordanian by passport, or Palestinian by birth. From Guevara, I learned to stand against Capitalist exploitation of poor countries. Finally, I learned from John F. Kennedy the decision making to reach justice no matter the cost, which he paid his life for that cause. And Eisenhower, I learned to love America.
Other personalities I admired and my life was influenced by them and play in my mind as role models, felt proud in their times and mine to know are: Martin Luther King, Muhammad Ali Klay and Malolm X, While the three were non-white, they have similar qualities of the previous persons. Other personality I was fond to read for was two western philosophers: Both British: George Bernard Shaw, and Bertrand Russell (later on the second became American). They all look for what the author was looking for in his early years, justice, identity, and dignity of human being.
While more than forty years passed on the absence of these persons, their ideas and spirit still live with the author, and show in his writings and beliefs. I did not meet any of them except Muhammad Ali Klay, the heavy weight Champ, whom I met in Kuwait, I was the program coordinator, for Kuwait TV, in 1969 where my office was close to the studio where his interview took place. The authorities in Kuwait were planning a friendly match for him, with local boxers. I asked him to sign for my one year son small book. He was young, energetic, proud, and a winner. He took the book and signed his name. He was in fact my role model to stand tall for difficulties of life, career, and challenges. Unfortunately, the signature was lost with the small book, after leaving Kuwait in 1982 for good.
I live in Malcolm X's Lansing city, and graduated from Michigan State University. I knew Malcolm X through the film depicting his life, as well as his biography book tiled: Malcolm X.
In Arabic literature, I was familiar with writings of Tawfiq al-Hakim, Taha Hussein, Mahmoud al-Aqqad, Al-Manfaluti, Ihsan Abdul-Qaddos, Ghassan Kanafani, Gibran Khalil Gibran, and Nagib Mahfouz. Special interest was with Du'a al-Karawan of Taha Hussein, Qandil Um Hashim of Yahya Haqqi, and al-Liss wal-Kilab of Mahfouz. Fortunately most of them were social scientists (Sociologists) influenced me to choose sociology as well as administration as my career. From Arab poets, Ahmad Shawqi, Hafiz Ibrahim, Abdul-Rahim Mahmoud, Nizar Qabbani, Abul-Qasim al-Shabbi and Ibrahim Tuqan.
From Old poets, Emri' al-Qays, Tarafa bin al-Abd, Antarah bin Shaddad, abul-Ala' al-Ma'rri, Bashar bin Burd, and Abu al-Tayyib al-Mutanabbi.
From old writers: al-Jahiz, al-Ghazali, al-Kalil bin Ahmad, Ibn Khaldun, Ibn Tufail, Ibn Sina and Ibn Rushd.
My background readings almost all of the above and try to be like them through life, Iam becoming an encyclopedia in almost all fields of knowledge.
My role models from religious leaders and Prophets, Jesus, Joseph, Muhammad (PBUT) and Umar bin al-Khattab (RD).
However, other persons I liked in my young years and still like them, I grew up on two sources of media through Egyptian and American films. I was fond to see American films between (1957-1965) From actors, I still remember Victor Mature, in Samsun the Great, Spartacus, the Slave casting Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis, Jerry Louise. James Dean, Dean Martin, and Henri Bogart, Rock Hudson, and John Wayne, and the cast of the serial Roots, about Black history.
Other literature and novel writers Albert Camus (al-Bu'asa'), Henrik Ebsen (The Toy), Leo Tolstoy (War and Peace),Jean Jacquues Rousseau Ernest Hemingway, Jean Poll Sartre, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw and series of detective Arsine Lapin. In addition to Bertrand Russell, Karl Marx, and Karl Manheim in later years.
From Arab actors, I was fond of Farid Shawqi, Rushdie Abaza, Umar al-Sherif, Ahmad Ramzi, Emad Hamdi, Anwar Wajdi, Abdul-Mun'im Madbuly, Ismael Yasin, Adel Imam, and Muhammad Sobhi beside many others. From Arab celebrities singers, I was fond of Arab singers, Farid al-Atrash, Muhammad Abdul-Wahhab and Abdul-Halim Hafiz. From Arab actresses and singers, Fatin Hamamh, Shadia, Najwa fuad, Najat al-Saghira, Warda, after the unforgettable voices: Umm Kalthum, Asmahan, and Layla Murad.
From politicians, one in particular was a role model for me too, King Hussein of Jordan, whom I met several times during my high school years and after. He's the only leader which I have a picture with in 1964 when I was a member in Hussein Camps which he initiated for the youth, and when was the secretary of the first Boy-Scout Committee for Zarqa District.
These great persons in addition to the ones I wrote about them, Muhammad, Ibn Sina, Solomon Asch, Stanley Milgram, Charles Darwin, and Ibn Rushd constitute the role model not only for the author but to his generation as well. Therefore they will be covered soon under: Persons I Admire series. (1051 words) www.hasanyahya.com
About the Author:
Hasan A. Yahya is an American Arab scholar, and a professor of sociology. Has a 2 Ph.d degrees from MSU. He published 19 Arabic and 8 English books and 200 plus articles on sociology, psychology, politics, poetry, and short stories in both Arabic and English. Philosophically, his writings concern logic, justice and human rights worldwide. Dr. Yahya resides in Michigan, USA. www.dryahyatv.com
It is considered that there are many baby boomer generation characteristics, and that they are largely strong and independent people as a result of their place in history following the end of World War Two, and the traumas endured by the pre baby boomer generation, their parents.
A Lot Of Character To Be Seen
Baby boomer generation characteristics are thought to include a self-reliant desire to work to the top of their field and climb the corporate ladder, the work ethic runs strong in them and they will strive to be the best in their field, this led to many of them becoming strong business leaders.
Arriving at work early and leaving late are typical baby boomer generation characteristics, as they are motivated by work and position, seeking promotion at any cost, often seen to be criticizing the younger generations for their lack of effort in the work place, they are conscientious members of the work force and will give their best at all times.
This work ethic means that another baby boomer generation characteristic is that they are considered to be quite competitive, both in their work places and outside, maybe having a competitive attitude towards their kids baseball team, or in the office competing to get that pay rise or promotion.
Another baby boomer generation characteristic is their strong independent streak, which makes them resourceful and not adverse to challenge, and change, in fact challenge is something that they relish, and they may active seek to challenge something they are dissatisfied with something in the workplace.
The reason that they seem to have such a commitment to their work is that the baby boomer generation characteristic was their desire to excel at their formal education, and their generation saw the highest rates of students taking up places in higher education facilities, which also led to many of them graduating with many qualifications.
These baby boomer generation characteristics also led to them being labelled as being a bit dull, and having lots of issues with the younger generation, with their catch words being thought of as 'never trust anyone under 30', which is obviously not reflective of all of their generation.
Many baby boomer characteristics are of course not in any way dissimilar to any other generation and there are always those that do not seem to conform to any stereotypical ideas about the generation to which they belong, the characteristics are representative of some, but the same set of characteristics can be seen in other generations across the years.
There is much to learn about really when it comes to baby boomers, and especially baby boomer retirement trends are important to be aware of. More than anything, you want to be aware that baby boomer retirement trends show that most baby boomers want to retire late. They want to stay healthy and young and not have to retire because this is basically telling them that they are old and too old to work anymore.
Learning about baby boomer retirement trends is very helpful, as is learning about baby boomer health trends and other trends that have a great impact on the world.
The Details
When it comes to the topic of baby boomer retirement trends, even huge news companies like CBS News have done stories on this topic and these stores are very interesting because they get into details about the different retirement trends surrounding baby boomers and which we should be aware of.
One point that they make regarding the matter of baby boomer retirement trends is that most baby boomers, when they were child rearing age, only had one or two children. This is going to reflect a lot when they get older, because it means that they are only going to have that one child there to help them when they are older, at retirement age.
Whereas someone with more children would have a lot more help and would not need to worry so much, with the baby boomers that only have one child, they know that this child is going to be very valuable and that it is going to be them primarily who are going to be taking care of them when they are seniors.
In the United States alone there are about 78 million baby boomers and so when you take this into consideration it is very easy to see why this is such a hot topic and why it is one that you need to be taking so very seriously. People are living longer now, and so baby boomer retirement trends have never been more important because most of them are still alive and will continue to live on to a ripe old age.
What does the average American Baby boomer look like? We all know
how old they are; they were all born between 1946 and 1964. But is she
more likely to be a he? Where does he come from? What does she do for a
living?
Much is made of the similarities among boomers -
that they were the first generation to grow up with television, that
many of them lived through the civil rights era and the Vietnam War.
Finding out what historic events they share is as easy as opening a
history book or searching on Google. But what distinguishes them from
one another is not always apparent from their public image.
Researchers
and advocates are trying to correct that, to combat generalizations
that depict the 77 million-strong group as all retirees, or
suburbanites, or free-loving Woodstock groupies. Understanding boomer
diversity across age, ethnic, and economic lines is necessary to
accurately assess the needs and actions of the members of the group.
The
media often lump boomers into one big homogeneous category, the report
notes, including suggesting that they all have similar upbringings, are
well educated, affluent, or are married with children. Many researchers
say that thinking of the boomers in too-general terms could produce
retirement policies that affect some boomers adversely. Stereotypes
also mask the reality about the group, whose diversity reflects that of
society.
"The harm in over-generalizing comes from a policy
standpoint," says Mary Elizabeth Hughes, a professor at Duke University
and coauthor of a recent analysis of boomer lives, including their
diversity. "[Our report shows] the income inequality, or the wealth
inequality in the boomers. And that suggests that some boomers are
going to be very well off in retirement, and other boomers are going to
be really struggling."
An obvious example of diversity among
the boomers is their age range, which spans 19 years and means that
while some boomers are grandparents, others are still getting kids into
preschool.
The differences are especially true for women.
Just like any other generation, female baby boomers have had different
experiences based on the choices we've made. So while there were plenty
of women who climbed the corporate ladder, there were also many women
who chose to stay at home.
Marketers are already honing
their pitches to try to reach particular segments of the boomers - such
as those in their late 40s and early 50s whose kids are leaving the
nest. But some findings in the Duke report, which is based on census
data from 2000 and earlier, suggest more fine-tuning across cultural
lines may be needed. The baby boomers are more diverse than popularly
recognized. Twelve percent of baby boomers are black, 9 percent are
Hispanic, 4 percent are Asian or Pacific Islander and less than 1
percent are American Indian or native Alaskan. But the Duke Professors
found that racial inequality persists for baby boomers, in terms of
education and wealth. Incomes of blacks are higher than in earlier
generations, and more of them have moved into the middle class, says
Hughes, "but on the whole, black boomers really did not improve their
condition, relative to whites, compared to the generation immediately
preceding them."
Perceptions from society still persist,
however. One can find that on many baby boomer social sites boomers
discuss whether people born in the early 1960s are really boomers if
they don't feel they fit in the generation. One can also find several
comments from 20- and 30-somethings who suggest that the boomers are a
mass of greedy people who are taking all the jobs.
There is
no real homogeneity that exists within the boomer generation, except
for the simple fact that they experienced the same changes and events,
yes many of them historic, that were going on in their world. But just
like those before them and those that came after, what they chose to do
with those experiences is what makes them hugely diverse.
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Boomers Generation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the demographic boom in births after the Second World War, see Post-World War II baby boom.For the video game, see Baby Boomer (video game).Baby Boom Generation is a term which portrays the cohorts born during the middle part of the 20th Century. The birth years of the Baby Boom Generation are the subject of controversy. Historically, everyone born during the post-World War II demographic boom in births was called part of the Baby Boom Generation.[1][2] This article deals with the Baby Boom Generation from a cultural perspective, while a separate article deals with the "Post-World War II baby boom".
In general, baby boomers are associated with a rejection or
redefinition of traditional values; however, many commentators have
disputed the extent of that rejection, noting the widespread continuity
of values with older and younger generations. In Europe and North
America boomers are widely associated with privilege, as many grew up
in a time of affluence.[3]
As a group, they were the healthiest, and wealthiest generation to that
time, and amongst the first to grow up genuinely expecting the world to
improve with time.[4]
One of the features of Boomers was that they tended to think of
themselves as a special generation, very different from those that had
come before them. In the 1960s, as the relatively large numbers of
young people became teenagers and young adults, they, and those around
them, created a very specific rhetoric around their cohort, and the
change they were bringing about.[5]
This rhetoric had an important impact in the self perceptions of the
boomers, as well as their tendency to define the world in terms of
generations.
The baby boom has been described variously as a "shockwave"[3] and as "the pig in the python."[4] By the sheer force of its numbers, the boomers were a demographic bulge which remodeled society as they passed through it.
Characteristics
The baby boomer generation is seen here as the widest bulge.
Size and economic impact
This cohort shares characteristics like higher rates of
participation in higher education than previous generations and an
assumption of lifelong prosperity and entitlement developed during
their childhood in the 1950s.
The spending wave theory suggests that an economic slowdown would occur due to the start of Baby Boomer retirement during the late 2000s.[6]
Cultural identity
Boomers grew up at a time of dramatic social change. In the United
States, that social change marked the generation with a strong cultural
cleavage,
between the proponents of social change and the more conservative. Some
analysts believe this cleavage has played out politically since the
time of the Vietnam War, to some extent defining the political landscape and division in the country.[7][8]
In 1993, Time
magazine reported on the religious affiliations of baby boomers,
stating that about 42% of baby boomers were dropouts from formal
religion, a third had never strayed from church, and one-fourth of
boomers were returning to religious practice. The boomers returning to
religion were "usually less tied to tradition and less dependable as
church members than the loyalists. They are also more liberal, which
deepens rifts over issues like abortion and homosexuality."[9]
Boomers across the world are said to have come of age at about the same time. Thus, Britain was undergoing Beatlemania while people in the United States were driving over to Woodstock, organizing against the Vietnam War, or fighting and dying in the same war; boomers in Italy were dressing in mod clothes and "buying the world a Coke"; American boomers in Canada had just found a new home and escaped the draft; Canadian Boomers were organizing support for Pierre Trudeau.
It is precisely because of these experiences that many believe those
born in the second half of the birth boom belong to another generation,
as events that defined their coming of age have little in common with
leading or core boomers.
The boomers found that their music, most notably rock and roll, was another expression of their generational identity. Transistor radios were personal devices that allowed teenagers to listen to The Beatles and The Motown Sound.
In the 1985 study of US generational cohorts by Schuman and Scott, a
broad sample of adults was asked, "What world events over the past 50
years were especially important to them?"[10]
For the Baby Boom Generation (this particular study used the years
1946-1955 for this Boomer cohort, although the exact birth years are
currently controversial[citation needed]), the results were:
Key characteristics: experimental, individualism, free spirited, social cause oriented
Aging and end of life issues
As of 1998, it was reported that as a generation boomers had tended
to avoid discussions and planning for their demise and avoided much
long term planning.[11]
However, beginning at least as early as that year, there has been a
growing dialogue on how to manage aging and end of life issues as the
generation ages.[12]
In particular, a number of commentators have argued that Baby Boomers
are in a state of denial regarding their own aging and death and are
leaving an undue economic burden on their children for their retirement
and care.[13][14][15]
Research on memory loss has indicated that the Baby Boom generation has
been confronted with increasing loss of memory due to the agitated life
they lead, which requires that attention is put on many different
things at a time. Since older generations were not faced with this
rapid life style, and newer generations have lived with this society
all their lives, it is said that the Baby Boom generation was the most
damaged one in terms of memory loss due to age. [16]
Impact on history and culture
An indication of the importance put on the impact of the Boomer Generation was the selection by Time magazine of the Baby Boom Generation as its 1966 "Man of the Year."
As Claire Raines points out in 'Beyond Generation X', "never before in
history had youth been so idealized as they were at this moment." When Generation X
came along it had much to live up to and to some degree has always
lived in the shadow of the Boomers, more often criticized ('slackers',
'whiners' and 'the doom generation') than not.[17]
