Keeping up with the Joneses<\/a>\u201d competitiveness borne from this generation\u2019s populous birth years. The connotation, however, which is perhaps best known stems from the slang word “jones” or \u201cjonesing\u201d, which means a yearning or craving. Jonesers were the people who as teens in the 1970\u2019s made this slang word popular, but beyond this historical claim, many believe the concept of jonesing is among this generation\u2019s key collective personality traits. Jonesers were given huge expectations as children in the optimistic 1960\u2019s, and then confronted with a different reality as they came of age in the pessimistic 1970\u2019s, leaving them with a certain unrequited, jonesing quality.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n
Um, okay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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