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  • 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

Silent Generation is a label for the generation of people born during the Great Depression

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