Cartoon Network, Gays in the Military and Other Things 18-Year-Olds Think

As promised, here's a link to the Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2013, i.e., 18-year-old freshmen born in 1991 who are now entering college. According to this super-helpful list:

• There has always been a Cartoon Network.


• The status of gays in the military has always been a topic of political debate.


• The nation’s key economic indicator has always been the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).


• The Green Giant has always been Shrek, not the big guy picking vegetables.


• They have never used a card catalog to find a book.


• Margaret Thatcher has always been a former prime minister.


• Salsa has always outsold ketchup.


• Earvin "Magic" Johnson has always been HIV-positive.

And on and on. A few weeks back, I gave you a link to the report for now-19-year-olds in the Class of 2012. The Beloit Mindset list gets published annually to remind those us who are a bit older than the newest adults have very different world views than we do.