September 8, 2003

The Changing Times

Instead of the usual medical websites we have decided to put out a Monday e-mail this week that was just for "fun". The Scout Report, from UW Madison, offers up interesting entries on the generation gap and other cultural changes. Enjoy!

From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/

The Annual Beloit College Mindset List Documents Cultural Change
Beloit College Releases the Mindset List for the Class of 200. As young adults across the country return to the groves of academe this fall, Professor Tom McBride of Beloit College has offered up (for the sixth consecutive year) his guide to helping college faculty and staff keep up to date with the cultural mindset of these new students: the Mindset List. http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/releases/mindset_2007.html

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
The third link will take visitors to the New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, edited by the well-known author and educational theorist, E.D. Hirsch, Jr. and his colleagues
Contains an interesting entry on Medicine and Health
http://www.bartleby.com/59/

BBC News: Buddies Target Generation Gap
The fifth link leads to a BBC news piece from last week about a new program that links young people with pensioners in a buddy scheme (where the young people assist these individuals with chores and such), in attempt to bridge the so-called generation gap.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/3192947.stm

Douglas Coupland's "Generation X" Neo-logisms
The final link is a compilation of the neolgisms utilized by Douglas Coupland's interesting tale, Generation X, which was first published in 1992. As the book deals with the post-Baby Boomer population, the phrases included here range from such witticisms as "café minimalism" (which means to espouse a philosophy of minimalism without actually putting into practice any of its tenets) to "Dorian Graying" (which means the unwillingness to gracefully allow one's body to show the signs of aging)
http://www.scn.org/~jonny/genx.html

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