Students in my afternoon section told me they never heard the words “welfare state” and “austerity measures.” I asked them in English to make sure and they just batted their eye-lashes and looked confused. Nobody knew about the protests in Spain and Italy and nobody had any idea about what is happening in Greece.
“Don’t you follow the news?” I asked in exasperation.
“No,” the students drawled, looking very bored.
“Why???” I asked.
“We don’t watch television,” one student explained.
I don’t watch television either but that doesn’t prevent me from following the news.
Internet generation, my ass.
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How do they know that Obama is a socialist, then?
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That was the noon section. In the noon section, they are engaged and interested. But in the 3 pm section things are completely different.
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Because of those “news”!
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It’s probably best that they don’t watch tele for the news anyway. Did you suggest some internet sources that they could use?
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I suggested reading the Spanish newspaper “El pais” but I’m not optimistic.
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El país… brrrrrr… Perhaps I misread this article, but this is borderline propaganda for Romney:
http://elpais.com/elpais/2012/10/24/opinion/1351077529_985078.html
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