http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2011/05/osama-wasn%e2%80%99t-voldemort/ Informed reflection on the events of the day Wed, 15 Jul 2015 17:00:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4.23 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/2011/05/osama-wasn%e2%80%99t-voldemort/comment-page-1/#comment-6492 Thu, 12 May 2011 01:08:00 +0000 http://www.deliberatelyconsidered.com/?p=5148#comment-6492 Place also matters here. The “USA!USA!” college students didn’t shout and celebrate in an in-the-middle-of-nowhere town in Alaska but in front of the White House. A variety of audiences amplify their representativeness of their generation (see this TIME picture: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2069455,00.html). How many young college students really celebrate this killing or just say “okay, finally” or “who cares?” Can they just represent those sophomores from George Washington University (or whatever university 5 to 20 miles away from the White House)? Although I believe generation is certainly an important factor, which I am preparing a research paper on this, I believe Mannheim’s another concept “generation unit” might be more interesting to think about the issue. In other words, “USA!USA!” shouters and country boys in Nebraska belong to the same generation but have quite different experiences of events that are most meaningful to them. Even if they watch the same Harry Potter(s), they might have different ways of framing their mental schema.

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