If not, consider this: In 1998...
The people who are starting
college this fall across the nation were born in 1980.
The Iranian hostage crisis occurred before they were conceived.
They have no memory of a time before MTV.
"New Wave" is their PARENTS musical generation.
Cyndi Lauper, Boy George, the Pretenders, the
Kinks, the Sex Pistols -- are all old music they have heard of, if they have
heard of it at all.
They have no meaningful
recollection of the Reagan era.
They were
prepubescent when the Persian Gulf War was waged.
If they have heard the name "Oliver North," it was probably as a losing
Congressional candidate, or perhaps in some
obscure survey history text's reference, such as might be made to Huey Long
or Teapot Dome.
Black Monday 1987 is as
significant to them as the Great Depression.
Their
world has always included AIDS.
Having not lived
through the Disco Scare, they can romanticize the 1970s.
They see "Family Ties" as something middle aged
ladies watch.
They watched "Star Wars" years ago,
when they were kids -- on video.
Atari predates
them, as do vinyl albums and cassette audiotapes; they may have heard of an
8-track, but probably never actually seen (or heard) one.
From their
earliest years, a camera was something you used once and threw away.
As far as they know, stamps have always cost about
32 cents.
The oil crisis is history of which they
probably know nothing -- and why anyone WOULDN'T buy a Chevy Suburban is
beyond them.
Most of them have probably never seen
a real nun, even if they went to Catholic schools.
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