Each person of our generation remembers different things about the past. I remember learning things like the Beatles coming to the United States for the first time. Before reading this article, I never realized how many people don't actually know many of the events that were historically significant. I have met a couple of people while at Iowa State that do seem to fit this description.
There is a girl in my calculus class that appears to be somebody who would believe most of the items the list, she asks questions that do not make any sense, and the teachers appears to have a difficult time taking her seriously. It seems that girls tend to fit the trend of this ignorance to the past more often than guys do. This also leads to the stereotype of "ditzy" girls. Guys however can be just as equally ignorant, most often in stereotypes of "idiot jocks".
I do not believe that these traits fit me personally. I have taken an interest to learn what I can about what past generations have done and how they lived compared to what I'm used to. I do tend to take advantage of my available resources that people like my parents don't always know how to use. Many political events of my childhood I don't know about, because I don't follow politics mainly because they have no appeal to me. I tend to get mixed up and lost in the stupidity of each different politician and their lies.
I believe that most people of this generation know most of what's happened before we were born. Classes in school have forced that upon us, just to avoid the ignorance and repeating the past. If nobody remembered what past generations have accomplished, we would step backwards and make the same mistakes they did repeatedly and be in a loop for all eternity.
http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2014.php
I agreed with the main idea being conveyed here. I think there are kids out there who are unaware of this stuff, but I feel that most us know about historical events even though we did not live through them.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with this idea. A lot of kids don't understand important things in history and I think that it is very important for them to know because this is what we are living in and what we are doing.
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with the fact that most people don't remember history as they should. However, I am one of those people. Half the items on the list didn't make any sense to me. So, I will also partly agree with the fact that the list didn't fit me, but at least parts of it did and that works for me.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with everyone's comment on how we are not as aware of our history like we should be, yet, just because someone may not be aware of their history does not make them "ditzy." Some people may come off as that but don't agree on judging people to that state because of what they know or do not know.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you here. I think that every generation has their fair share of "ditzy" people. I think that because of our easy access to technology, we can learn more about our past and the world around us but we can also use the technology to ignore the world around us. So, technology has both taught, and stupified us.
ReplyDeleteI love history so I agree with you on the fact that I was aware of a lot of the historic things that the survey talked about.
ReplyDeleteI agree that there are some people that fit these stereotypes of ditsy blonde or dumb jock, but that percent is probably lower than we assume, and I believe the people that fit that stereotype are usually over playing their role for attention.
ReplyDeleteI do admit I find girls ditzy and guys dumb jocks when they don't know a fact that seems rather obvious. But I do agree with your statement. History is not well known by some so I try not to think that about people.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that guys aren't the ignorant ones in the world. Also, we should learn about past generations so that we don't make their same mistakes.
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