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
