Re: Feeling Old…. Yeah!
On Aug 24, 2007, at 8:14 AM, Ismail Lagardien wrote:
Teaching a Class on Africa’s International Relations a year ago
(Aug- Dec) I felt like an ancient freak. Not a single undergraduate
knew, beyond “a” name (one Nelson Mandela), what apartheid was. I
didn’t know whether to laugh, or cry. But then, some of them
couldn’t discuss McCarthyism, the Watts Riots, Kent State, Tet…
They had never heard of the Sandinistas/Contras… To his credit,
one student liked The Clash!!! (and thought he knew about the
Sandinistas)
It’s odd how that Beloit list, and some of the punditry it inspired,
seems to assume that you have to have had personal experience of a
historical event to know anything about it.
Doug