Silent Generation

Silent Generation is the demographic cohort following the Greatest Generation. This generation is of those people who were born between 1928 and 1945. Since their parents were struggling through the Great Depression and the Second World War, they grew up in an ambience of great austerity. Hence they were expected to be seen, and not heard. So this generation supposedly worked hard and kept quiet.

Quotes

• We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism, nor as others thought, because we feared its official repression. We were silent because the exhilaration of social action seemed to many of us just one more way of escaping the personal.
  • Joan Didion in The White Album

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Silent Generation on Wikipedia