Every year Ron Naif, Tom McBride, and Charles Westerberg, retired from Beloit College, produce The Mindset List. This is to tell college professors about the cultural references of the incoming freshman class. It also makes the rest of us feel old. Here’s some of the items on this year’s list, describing youth born in 2000.
Among the iconic figures never alive in their lifetime are Victor Borge, Charles Schulz, and the original Obi-Wan Kenobi Alec Guinness.
Among their classmates could be Madonna’s son Rocco, Will Smith’s daughter Willow, or David Bowie and Iman’s daughter Alexandria.
Outer space has never been without human habitation.
Same-sex couples have always found marital bliss in the Netherlands.
They’ve grown up with stories about where their grandparents were on 11/22/63 and where their parents were on 9/11.
King Friday the 13thand Lady Elaine Fairchild have always dwelled in the Neighborhood, but only in re-runs.
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