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Beloit CollegeMindset List
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Beloit College Mindset List
Our effort is to identify a worldview of 18 year-olds in the fall of 2007.
Beloit College Mindset List
The "Class of 2011" refers to students entering college this year. They are generally 18 which suggests they were born in 1989.
The Class of 2011
What Berlin wall?
The Class of 2011
Humvees, minus the artillery, have always been available to the public.
The Class of 2011
Rush Limbaugh and the “Dittoheads” have always been lambasting liberals.
The Class of 2011
They have grown up with bottled water.
The Class of 2011
General Motors has always been working on an electric car.
The Class of 2011
Nelson Mandela has always been free and a force in South Africa.
The Class of 2011
Pete Rose has never played baseball.
The Class of 2011
Rap music has always been mainstream.
The Class of 2011
“Off the hook” has never had anything to do with a telephone.
The Class of 2011
They were born the year Harvard Law Review editor Barack Obama announced he might run for office some day.
The Class of 2011
The NBA season has always gone on and on and on and on.
The Class of 2011
Classmates could include > Michelle Wie,> Jordin Sparks, > & Bart Simpson.
The Class of 2011
Half of them may have been members of the Baby-Sitters Club.
The Class of 2011
Eastern Airlines has never “earned their wings” in their lifetime.
The Class of 2011
No one has ever been able to sit down comfortably to a meal of “liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.”
The Class of 2011
Wal-Mart has always been a larger retailer than Sears and has always employed more workers than GM.
The Class of 2011
Wolf Blitzer has always been serving up the news on CNN.
The Class of 2011
Al Gore has always been running for president or thinking about it.
The Class of 2011
Multigrain chips have always provided healthful junk food.
The Class of 2011
They grew up in Wayne’s World.
The Class of 2011
U2 has always been more than a spy plane.
The Class of 2011
They were introduced to Jack Nicholson as “The Joker.”
The Class of 2011
Commercial product placements have been the norm in films and on TV.
The Class of 2011
Fox has always been a major network.
The Class of 2011
They drove their parents crazy with the Beavis and Butt-Head laugh.
The Class of 2011
The “Blue Man Group” has always been everywhere.
The Class of 2011
Thanks to MySpace and Facebook, autobiography can happen in real time.
The Class of 2011
They learned about JFK from Oliver Stone and Malcolm X from Spike Lee.
The Class of 2011
Tiananmen Square is a 2008 Olympics venue, not the scene of a massacre
The Class of 2011
MTV has never featured music videos.
The Class of 2011
Jerry Springer has always been lowering the level of discourse on TV.
The Class of 2011
They get much more information from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert than from the newspaper.
The Class of 2011
They’re always texting
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The Class of 2011
They never saw Johnny Carson live on television.
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