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annual list of the college students of the first year American knows is a fun read for the British and other cultures

As a British student who spent part of last year studying in the United States I became a kind of "translator" of the English and American culture. Recently, I learned from the Beloit Mindset List , an annual compilation of what freshmen in the United States "know" ( at least in a cultural sense) . It all began in 1998 when two American researchers realized that many of his colleauges quoting movies, TV shows and singers who sounded terribly outdated for the generation of students.

list mentality for 2017 has just been published , and makes very interesting reading , especially the British. I found myself thinking : that these same cultural reference points are in the pond ? I am ranked on the list in 2015 ( American universities are four-year course , I forgot trying to search the site for 1993 , for a short period of time).

reading "my" list, in fact there are some observations that appear how our world has changed , especially for my generation.

63. They will not go near a store that does not have a website.

This is something that has begun to affect all generations , not just my generation will not do it, my parents , and certainly not the most skilled in technology tend to to " do you have a website ? " . It is not just having a website has changed , I am very suspicious of all retailers that resembles a Wordpress template modified , or if your entire site is written in Times New Roman, with bad formatting paragraph. We have all become critical Internet , really.

49. Public schools have always made space available for advertising .

30. Dial-up is soooo last century!

This is true . My family is lucky to have a very good fiber connection , given where we are in the UK. I do not even remember 56k speed and sounds of telephone and became something that YouTube should now look for when you want a moment of nostalgia , or when you are on the website to share videos with family and also in the " related videos " bottom right , for no apparent reason .

38. Adults have always been arguing about health care policy .

This is unfortunately more a conversation in Britain . I 'm not a conspiracy theorist , but the NHS seems to come under a lot of attacks (especially of Health and Social Act 2012, I might add) , to the extent that you can start to wonder how long ' ll before David Cameron offers " an alternative " . Of course, the U.S. is a totally different game.

So what is different for students this year? What can university professors in the U.S. students expect to see reference to when the school year starts in the coming weeks across the United States?

The only thing that really stands out is how we change our language and meaning of the word technology. Consider these items in the list of 2017:

29. Java has never been just a cup of coffee.



Many scientists continue to express how , such as stone, bronze and iron ages , we live in the "information" era , a period of rapid growth of technology with results that far exceed the previous imagination. This is certainly a sign of things to come. Our language is flexible and changes all the time , and it seems that the reappropriation of words with new friends is the technology industry way.



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