Cult of Samsara

I think you are overreacting to the comment a bit

knowing myself I would have most likely made it myself (but not serious)

and I can't assume that anyone would seriously make that comment for real and not for lulz

 

people not paying attention to interesting classes and even not caring about it except for the grades is something you sadly see everywhere

and it gets even more sad if you see that they'll get that degree just like you do... :/

 

that is something that has significantly lowered the value of any degree in my esteem

In a group of that size I'd be surprised if u didnt find at least 1 if not a good few more bigots/racists.

 

On a similar scale to "...all Japanese people look the same anyways..." I doubt all the other 55 are a generic "white middle-class teenager", look a bit closer & I'm sure you could find ( to use basic labels) white trash, goths, rich swots, aspirational poorer purists, hardcore nationalist believers..., my point being in any group of sufficient size there will be a variation of mindsets , both good & bad on the current political/social scale. Admittedly as a block they will still have a more standardised & probably different viewpoint to your own, but hopefully its not a class full of commonly programmed robots.

 

Theres even an outside chance that the look alike comment was tongue in cheek sarcastic similar to the comment I made in your status on your last(?) return to the US, not everyone deals with the world in the same way, or expresses their opinions clearly that all can understand.

Yeah, that Japanese comment isn't reflective of anything, really. It just made me think about the racial composition of the class and whether it plays a factor in anything. And I think if you guys saw the in class discussions, you'd see what I mean when I say that the class's ability to learn and discuss is limited by the strong majority of the people being white.

Leslie Knope: You're not from here, right?

Tom Haverford: No, I'm from South Carolina.

Leslie Knope: But you moved to South Carolina from where?

Tom Haverford: My mother's uterus.

Leslie Knope: But you were conceived in Libya, right?

Tom Haverford: Wow. No. I was conceived in America. My parents are Indian.

Leslie Knope: Where did the name Haverford come from?

Tom Haverford: My birth name is Darwish Zubair Ismail Gani. Then I changed it to Tom Haverford, because you know, brown guys with funny-sounding Muslim names don't make it far into politics.

Leslie Knope: What about Barack Obama?

Tom Haverford: Okay, yeah, fine, Barack Obama. If I knew a guy named Barack Obama was gonna be elected president, yeah, maybe I wouldn't have changed it.

I don't want to be all holier-than-thou,

In my ex- white middle class high schooler opinion you failed.

 

Edit: That sounded harsh. What I mean is that to me you sort of stereotyped white suburban kids, just like the white suburban kids stereotyped Japanese people. Like Bwauder said one person making a rude remark does not mean you should stereotype all people of that person's ethnicity based on that. You inadvertently became what you are preaching against.

Yeah, that Japanese comment isn't reflective of anything, really. It just made me think about the racial composition of the class and whether it plays a factor in anything. And I think if you guys saw the in class discussions, you'd see what I mean when I say that the class's ability to learn and discuss is limited by the strong majority of the people being white.

think the skin colour is more of a coincidence

rather general teenager behaviour if you ask me :P