Beloit College Reflection

The Beloit College mindset is a surprisingly accurate list of the way my peers and I thing about the world.  Many of the seventy-five mindsets on the list are very true, but there are a couple that I disagree with.  The mindsets that talked about a person that I have never heard of, and say that they have always been dead to are obviously very true.  There are some mindsets that I feel almost make my generation sound uneducated, like saying that we don't know who Michelangelo is.  I think that for the most part the college did a very good job compiling the different mindsets of my time.

I agree with a vast majority of the mindsets that the college came up with.  I agree obviously with all the mindsets that say that something has always existed since we were born.  These are thing like DNA fingerprinting and the human genome.  There are a lot of names that are brought up saying that we have never heard of, and for the most part it was true I have never heard of Ice-T, or Dirty Harry, or John McEnroe.  There were a number of mindsets that talked about the cold war, and since I was not alive in that time all the ones about the US getting alone with Russia seem right to me.  For the most part I feel they got the mindsets correct for my generation.

I disagree with a small amount of the mindsets that they brought up.  I think that some of them make my peers and I look uneducated.  They said that Al Gore has always been animated to us, this isn't true at all in fact I can't think of that many Al Gore cartoons, I would say that the majority of my peers know that Al Gore was the vice president under Clinton.  Once again they say that we don't know that Czechoslovakia was a country, I would bet there are quite a few people my age that know that is was.  Lastly they say that we don't know who Beethoven is I would be very surprised if someone doesn't know how Beethoven and I would venture to say that many could hum one of his master pieces.  There were few mindsets that I disagree with, I disagree with some because I feel like they are making fun of my generation.

I think that Beloit did a very good job in summarizing a whole population into just seventy-five mindsets.  Many of the seventy-five mindsets on the list are very true, but there are a couple that I disagree with.  I agree with all the ones that date us, meaning if something was invented before we were born obviously we won't remember what it was like before that.  There were a couple mindsets that I disagreed with, because I felt that the college made us out to be somewhat uneducated.  I really enjoyed that article and think that it was very accurate.