Website review: Beloit College Public Affairs
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•15 reviews since Aug 21, 2007
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•beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2011.php
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Kelseyg rated 6 months ago- Hmm... I like the idea of a list that shows how history has changed, but a lot of these just assume young people are ignorant. Maybe we learned about Malcolm X from Alex Haley, and who says we view Tienanmen Square as anything but the scene of a massacre? To put this in perspective, what if a list was made about baby boomers that said "Women have always been able to vote!" Kinda silly. It assumes an ignorance of significant historical events that is just strange. But ANYWAY it's a cool idea even if the execution is a little weird.
- pmessall rated 6 months ago
- There are a lot of good points to be made about that generation, but hardly any of them are here. Mostly a lot of it is just lies. High Definition television has not always been available, and while the web may have "technically" existed in 89', no one was really using until much later. At least be accurate.
- Feste rated 6 months ago
- I was born in 1989, but a good deal of these items don't apply to me. It's a neat list, anyway...
- TheGreatTiny rated 6 months ago
- From the page: "Avatars have nothing to do with Hindu deities." Yeah, I feel that way. Guess what, 198fuckin5!! "They never "rolled down" a car window." I dunno, my friend's 2006 chevy has roll down windows. Stupid.
- Andendau rated 6 months ago
- From the page: "55 MTV has never featured music videos."
- yaili rated 6 months ago
- From the article:
«Most of the students entering College this fall, members of the Class of 2011, were born in 1989. For them, Alvin Ailey, Andrei Sakharov, Huey Newton, Emperor Hirohito, Ted Bundy, Abbie Hoffman, and Don the Beachcomber have always been dead.
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4. They never "rolled down" a car window.
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36. American rock groups have always appeared in Moscow.
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50. Smoking has never been allowed in public spaces in France.»
I don't see any problem with this list, like some people do. I just think it's a way of showing how the world has changed in few years, and how younger people are born to different contexts than older ones, like we once did (like for me there has always been ATMs in Portugal, but for my parents no; and my kids will never touch one "escudo" - our previous currency - and I sometimes still have to convert mentally euros to "escudos"...). - From the article:
- caicos rated 7 months ago
- BELOIT COLLEGE RELEASES TENTH ANNUAL MINDSET LIST FOR THE ENTERING POST-COLD WAR CLASS OF 2011 Beloit, Wis. -- When they welcome the class of 2011 in the coming weeks, American colleges and universities will be saying hello to the generation born as the Cold War was ending. For them, a Russia with multiple political parties and a China with multiple business enterprises seems quite normal. They've grown up in a time of triumphant capitalism, where it's common for stadiums to be named after corporations and where product placements have always been yet another clever way for companies to sell their wares. Each August for the past decade, as faculty prepare for the academic year, Beloit College in Wisconsin has released the Beloit College Mindset List. Its 70 items provide a look at the cultural touchstones that have shaped the lives of today's first-year students, most of them born in 1989. It is the creation of Beloit's Keefer Professor of the Humanities Tom McBride and Public Affairs Director Ron Nief. Latchkey kids for most of their lives, students entering college this fall think nothing of arriving home with parents still at work, then e-mailing or texting their friends, instantly updating their autobiographies on "Facebook" or "MySpace," and listening to their iPods while doing their research on Wikipedia. They've grown up with Rush Limbaugh urging his fellow Dittoheads to excoriate liberals, with having been taught by an equal number of women and men in the classroom, and with women having been hired as police chiefs of major cities. Food has always been a health concern. Consumer awareness about ingredients and fats has always been energized. They've never "rolled down" a car window, and to them Jack Nicholson is mainly known as the guy who played "The Joker." As usual, they remind their elders how quickly time has passed. For them Pete Rose has never been in baseball. Abbie Hoffman's always been dead. Johnny Carson has never been live on TV, and Nelson Mandela has always been free. As for the Berlin Wall, what's that?
- TS-guy rated 10 months ago
- Lists like this assume no knowledge of history.
- shiftplus rated 11 months ago
- From the page: "Russia has always had a multi-party political system."
And it's always done the Russian people such good! - From the page: "Russia has always had a multi-party political system."
