Most of the students starting college this fall were born in 1989. Each year the staff at Beloit College in Wisconsin put together a list to give the faculty a sense of the mindset of that years' incoming freshmen.
Here is this years' list:
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 the 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.
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) Women have always been police chiefs in major cities.
16) They were born the year Harvard Law Review Editor Barack Obama announced he may run for office some day.
17) Russia has always had a multi-party political system.
18) The NBA season has always gone on and on and on.
19) Wal-Mart has always been a larger retailer than Sears and has employed more workers than GM.
20) Wolf Blitzer has always been serving up the news on CNN
21) Al Gore has always been running for president or thinking about it.
22) U2 has always been more than a spy plane
23) American rock groups have always appeared in Moscow
23) They learned about JFK from Oliver Stone and Malcom X from Spike Lee.
24) Tiananmen Square is a 2008 Olympics venue, not the scene of a massacre.
25) Dilbert has always been ridiculing cubicle culture.
26) Burma has always been Myanmar.
27) Chavez has nothing to do with iceberg lettuce and everything to do with oil.
28) The space program has never really caught their attention except in disasters.
29) Food packaging has always included nutritional labeling.
30) China has always been more interested in making money than reeducation.