Every year, Beloit College publishes "a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college". They just published their 11th "Mindset List." Here are a few tidbits:
- Harry Potter could be a classmate, playing on their Quidditch team
- GPS satellite navigation systems have always been available.
- Gas stations have never fixed flats, but most serve cappuccino.
- All have had a relative--or known about a friend's relative--who died comfortably at home with Hospice.
- WWW has never stood for World Wide Wrestling.
- Clarence Thomas has always sat on the Supreme Court.
- Schools have always been concerned about multiculturalism.
- There have always been gay rabbis.
- Roseanne Barr has never been invited to sing the National Anthem again. (a good thing, IMO)
- Their parents may have watched The American Gladiators on TV the day they were born.
- They never heard an attendant ask “Want me to check under the hood?”
- They have never known life without Seinfeld references from a show about “nothing.”
- There have always been charter schools.
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