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Each August since 1998, Beloit (Wisc.) College has released the Beloit College Mindset List, "providing a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college" in the fall. Mindset List (http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2016/) gives perspective for and on those born 18 years ago. Example from the Mindset: "For this generation of entering college students, born in 1994, Kurt Cobain (pictured), Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Richard Nixon and John Wayne Gacy have always been dead." Here are some select others: (AP) -
"For most of their lives, maintaining relations between the U.S. and the rest of the world has been a woman’s job in the State Department." (AP) -
"They have never seen an airplane `ticket.'" (Albany Times Union) -
"Outdated icons with images of floppy discs for `save,' a telephone for `phone,' and a snail mail envelope for `mail' have oddly decorated their tablets and smart phone screens." (BUSINESS WIRE) -
"`Star Wars' has always been just a film, not a defense strategy." (AP) -
"The Sistine Chapel ceiling has always been brighter and cleaner." (AP) -
"Selena's fans have always been in mourning." (AP) -
"Simba has always had trouble waiting to be King." -
"They watch television everywhere but on a television." (AP) -
"Exposed bra straps have always been a fashion statement, not a wardrobe malfunction to be corrected quietly by well-meaning friends." (Business Wire) -
"Pulp Fiction’s meal of a `Royale with Cheese' and an `Amos and Andy milkshake' has little or no resonance with them." -
"Herr Schindler has always had a List; Mr. Spielberg has always had an Oscar." (AP) -
"They have lived in an era of instant stardom and self-proclaimed celebrities, famous for being famous." (MATT SAYLES/INVISION/AP) -
"Little Caesar has always been proclaiming `Pizza Pizza.'" (PR NEWSWIRE) -
"Women have always piloted war planes and space shuttles." (KRT) -
"Martin Lawrence has always been banned from hosting Saturday Night Live." (© Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reseved.) -
"Benjamin Braddock, having given up both a career in plastics and a relationship with Mrs. Robinson, could be their grandfather." -
"There has always been football in Jacksonville but never in Los Angeles." (AP) -
"Genomes of living things have always been sequenced." (NYT) -
"Gene therapy has always been an available treatment." (AP) -
"Having made the acquaintance of Furby at an early age, they have expected their toy friends to do ever more unpredictable things." (AP) -
"Robert De Niro is thought of as Greg Focker's long-suffering father-in-law, not as Vito Corleone or Jimmy Conway." (AP) -
AS A BONUS, WE ADD SOME OF OUR OWN that we did not see on the 2012 list: Eminem is the old school guy from the Chrysler commercial. (AP) -
They have never used a payphone. (Albany Times Union) -
They have little if any direct recollection of the Sept. 11 attacks. (AP) -
They can't name the broadcast television networks, or understand why they have different rules than cable channels. (AP) -
They know only one year in which the New York Yankees did not make the postseason. (AP)
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