The purpose of the Beloit College Mindset list articles is to prepare a list of "cultural touchstones" that was originally in an effort to show faculty members how quickly worldviews of each generation was changing. Today the article entices over 400,000 hits annually on Facebook. As far as the content of each year's article, the accuracy is really at the reader's discretion, and because of diversity, economic factors, social factors, global factors, and personal experience, the reactions to the viewpoints will differ from graduate to graduate.
What I first noticed after reading the article entirely was the points it made on subjects that many graduates of 2014 have no personal connection to, or in some cases no opinion on or care for. For instance the comment about Walmart selling handguns over the counter, and also about Honda always being a major competitor on Memorial Day at Indianapolis. This list just seems as if it was compiled by people born prior to the eighties that are trying to understand what my generation thinks about the world, and it's issues.I know its hard to assemble and basically guess on seventy five world wide accepted opinions, but that is why we have mass testing.
My response to this article is that it seems to lack the appeal and foundation that would make it accepted by me based off of my personal experience with the world economically, socially, and globally. They mention hundreds of channels on cable, but a routine of having nothing to watch. If they had put something about MTV not playing music videos on it like it use too, then it would have applied better to my experience. The point that said when our parents complained about Black Monday, we thought they were complaining about punk rockers from L.A suggests that our class doesn't care about our economic situations, and crisis. The toothpaste tube standing on the cap seems completely random, and the other points made like this one just hurt the accuracy and appeal of this list.
Overall my opinion on this list of broad opinions would have to be a negative outlook on the accuracy of the list as a whole. Like I said before the opinions will defer based on experiences in the world, but in my experience of eighteen years, two months, and twenty days on this earth I feel like this list inaccurately depicts my worldview and mindset on the topics they presented in the list.
