If you were born in 1989 . . .
 

This list provides an interesting perspective. The list pertains to folks born in '89 or later.

Source: http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/2011.php

Mindset List 2011
BELOIT COLLEGE'S MINDSET LIST®
FOR THE CLASS OF 2011

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.

1. What Berlin wall?
2. Humvees, minus the artillery, have always been available to the public.
3. Rush Limbaugh and the “Dittoheads” have always been lambasting liberals.
4. They never “rolled down” a car window.
5. Michael Moore has always been angry and funny.
6. They may confuse the Keating Five with a rock group.
7. They have grown up with bottled water.Bottled Water
8. General Motors has always been working on an electric car.
9. Nelson Mandela has always been free and a force in South Africa.
10. Pete Rose has never played baseball.
11. Rap music has always been mainstream.
12. Religious leaders have always been telling politicians what to do, or else!
13. “Off the hook” has never had anything to do with a telephone.
14. Music has always been “unplugged.”
15. Russia has always had a multi-party political system.
16. Women have always been police chiefs in major cities.
17. They were born the year Harvard Law Review Editor Barack Obama announced he might run for office some day.
18. The NBA season has always gone on and on and on and on.
19. Classmates could include Michelle Wie, Jordin Sparks, and Bart Simpson.
20. Half of them may have been members of the Baby-sitters Club.
21. Eastern Airlines has never “earned their wings” in their lifetime.
22. No one has ever been able to sit down comfortably to a meal of “liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.”
23. Wal-Mart has always been a larger retailer than Sears and has always employed more workers than GM.
24. Being “lame” has to do with being dumb or inarticulate, not disabled.
25. Wolf Blitzer has always been serving up the news on CNN.
26. Katie Couric has always had screen cred.
27. Al Gore has always been running for president or thinking about it.
28. They never found a prize in a Coca-Cola “MagiCan.”
29. They were too young to understand Judas Priest’s subliminal messages.
30. When all else fails, the Prozac defense has always been a possibility.
31. Multigrain chips have always provided healthful junk food.
32. They grew up in Wayne’s World.
33. U2 has always been more than a spy plane.
34. They were introduced to Jack Nicholson as “The Joker.”
35. Stadiums, rock tours and sporting events have always had corporate names.
36. American rock groups have always appeared in Moscow.
37. Commercial product placements have been the norm in films and on TV.
38. On Parents’ Day on campus, their folks could be mixing it up with Lisa Bonet and Lenny Kravitz with daughter Zöe, or Kathie Lee and Frank Gifford with son Cody.
39. Fox has always been a major network.
40. They drove their parents crazy with the Beavis and Butt-Head laugh.
41. The “Blue Man Group” has always been everywhere.
42. Women’s studies majors have always been offered on campus.
43. Being a latchkey kid has never been a big deal.
44. Thanks to MySpace and Facebook, autobiography can happen in real time.
45. They learned about JFK from Oliver Stone and Malcolm X from Spike Lee.
46. Most phone calls have never been private.
47. High definition television has always been available.
48. Microbreweries have always been ubiquitous.
49. Virtual reality has always been available when the real thing failed.
50. Smoking has never been allowed in public spaces in France.
51. China has always been more interested in making money than in reeducation.
52. Time has always worked with Warner.
53. Tiananmen Square is a 2008 Olympics venue, not the scene of a massacre.
54. The purchase of ivory has always been banned.
55. MTV has never featured music videos.
56. The space program has never really caught their attention except in disasters. Space Program
57. Jerry Springer has always been lowering the level of discourse on TV.
58. They get much more information from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert than from the newspaper.
59. They’re always texting 1 n other.
60. They will encounter roughly equal numbers of female and male professors in the classroom.
61. They never saw Johnny Carson live on television.
62. They have no idea who Rusty Jones was or why he said “goodbye to rusty cars.”
63. Avatars have nothing to do with Hindu deities.
64. Chavez has nothing to do with iceberg lettuce and everything to do with oil.
65. Illinois has been trying to ban smoking since the year they were born.
66. The World Wide Web has been an online tool since they were born.
67. Chronic fatigue syndrome has always been debilitating and controversial.
68. Burma has always been Myanmar.
69. Dilbert has always been ridiculing cubicle culture.
70. Food packaging has always included nutritional labeling.

One of our new engineers is the same age as my ex-stepchild, born in 1981. It is pretty amazing to see how different Historical perception is for someone for someone even slightly younger.

And to add to the above list:

Micheal Jackson has always been a Child Molester and looked White.

what a lame list.
how would anything on there change the day to day lives of anyone in going to college in Wisconsin?
how would anything on there make an older person "wiser"?

Perspective.

perspective? everything in that list is way below the noise floor.

LMAO

Seems like the changes in Germany, USSR and China are significant, yes?

There are also numerous references to changes in technology which have certainly changed lives; the way the youth get their news, the internet, etc.

The meta-message is that the world has changed in really big ways and this has changed the way we live and look at the world today.

Best,

Kurt

edit: My Daughter was born in 1998 - her life is radically different than mine was; I feel like a really old man when I tell her "when I was kid" stories.

that could be but it is not due to anything in that list.

not significant to me.
what changes have I seen in my day to day existence due to this? perhaps nothing?

Sure it does!

I think you are taking the list only on its face.

For example, the list says:

15. Russia has always had a multi-party political system.

I recall having air-raid drills when I was in elementary school because there was a real fear that a nuke war with Russia could happen. Living in a cold war environment had a big impact on the lives of Americans and those in the USSR.

Or:

4. They never “rolled down” a car window.

This is just one of thousands+ of changes brought about by high tech; think of all of the other things that one born in 1989 would not be exposed to because of technology . . . and how tech is literally changing lifestyles.

Or:

They were born the year Harvard Law Review Editor Barack Obama announced he might run for office some day.

Unfortunately, when I was a kid it would have been almost unthinkable that a black man or a any woman could be elected president. Times have changed, yes?

Look beyond the one liners and you will get the "message". :)

Best,

Kurt

Some no, some yes. Here's a start


1. What Berlin wall?
You have always been able to visit Berlin.

2. Humvees, minus the artillery, have always been available to the public.
You never drove on a road where you didn't have easy 50% of the road being enormous vehicles constantly blocking your view.

3. Rush Limbaugh and the “Dittoheads” have always been lambasting liberals.
You never seen a time when the country wasn't polarized.

4. They never “rolled down” a car window.
You've always had to deal with the concern of when getting down the window since the motor can fail.

5. Michael Moore has always been angry and funny.
You never seen a skinny Michael Moore. Has anyone? LOLOL

6. They may confuse the Keating Five with a rock group.
You didn't lose your ass in the S&L scandal.

7. They have grown up with bottled water.Bottled Water
You never got ripped off on tap water in a bottle, you just went to your tap.

LOL kstarnes, you and I had the same idea....

Are we dating ourselves? :D

Best,

Kurt

yeah, the changes in China don't affect you one bit... :rolleyes:

You're a "closer". :D

Best,

Kurt

shhhhh

lol

probably never dialed a phone number either.

Never had to get up to change the TV channel.

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