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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Wow.
It's impossible to exaggerate how infantilized higher education has become. Imagine the astonishment of students who attended college in the 40s and 50s under the GI bill if they hopped in a time machine.
There's clearly some kind of cultural sea change going on here. Either people are growing up far more fragile than any other cohort of adults in history (if so why?), or there's some strange cult of misery sprouting up among institutions catering to the affluent.
Is this just a North American thing, or do we see public rituals of extreme sensitivity and distress among young adults in China, Brazil, Poland, etc?
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Just before Hallowe'en, a Florida university set up a counselling and wellness center for any of their students traumatized by Hallowe'en costumes.
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/1...ween-costumes/
so yeah, not only are they more fragile but it seems they are encouraged to be so.