Editing Silent Generation (section)

==Terminology==
''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine first used the term "Silent Generation" in a November 5, 1951, article titled "The Younger Generation", although the term appears to precede the publication:<ref name="time.com">{{cite magazine |date=November 5, 1951 |title=People: THE YOUNGER GENERATION |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,856950,00.html |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=March 3, 2020 |archive-date=April 15, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220415073957/http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,856950,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

{{blockquote|text=The most startling fact about the younger generation is its silence. With some rare exceptions, youth is nowhere near the rostrum. By comparison with the Flaming Youth of their fathers & mothers, today's younger generation is a still, small flame. It does not issue manifestoes, make speeches or carry posters. It has been called the "Silent Generation."}}

The ''Time'' article used birth dates of 1923 to 1933 for the generation, but the term somehow migrated to the later years currently in use.<ref name="Menand-2021">{{cite magazine |last1=Menand |first1=Louis |date=October 11, 2021 |title=It's Time to Stop Talking About 'Generations' |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/18/its-time-to-stop-talking-about-generations |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |access-date=November 11, 2021 |archive-date=September 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220902110411/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/18/its-time-to-stop-talking-about-generations |url-status=live }}</ref> A reason later proposed for this perceived silence is that as young adults during the [[McCarthyism|McCarthy Era]], many members of the Silent Generation felt it was unwise to speak out.<ref>Handbook to Life in America, Volume 8 Rodney P. Carlisle Infobase Publishing, 2009, p. 22</ref>

The term "Silent Generation" is also used to describe a similar age group in the UK but has been at times described as a reference to strict childhood discipline which taught children to be "seen but not heard."<ref>{{Cite web|date=October 18, 2019|title=From the silent generation to 'snowflakes': why you need friends of all ages|url=http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/oct/18/silent-generation-to-snowflakes-why-you-need-friends-all-ages|access-date=November 17, 2021|website=the Guardian|language=en|archive-date=October 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191018065024/http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/oct/18/silent-generation-to-snowflakes-why-you-need-friends-all-ages|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Millennials, baby boomers or Gen Z: Which one are you and what does it mean?|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zf8j92p|access-date=November 17, 2021|website=BBC Bitesize|language=en-GB|archive-date=October 13, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191013093015/https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/zf8j92p|url-status=live}}</ref> In Canada, it has been used with the same meaning as in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dangerfield |first=Katie |date=July 23, 2017 |title=From baby boomers to millennials: Which generation speaks to you? |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/3587440/generation-traits-millennials-baby-boomer-generation-x/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20220404210018/https://globalnews.ca/news/3587440/generation-traits-millennials-baby-boomer-generation-x/ |archive-date=April 4, 2022 |access-date=November 18, 2021 |website=Global News |language=en-US }}</ref> The cohort is also known as the "Traditionalist Generation".<ref>{{cite book |first=Stephen | last=Fineman | title=Organising Age | location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2011 | isbn=978-0-19957-804-7 |page=45}}</ref>