Reply to tell me about colleges that didn't make your kid's list

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "tell me about colleges that didn't make your kid's list"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anyone roasting you for this is a moron. I completely agree with you. "Diversity" isn't even on our list of most important things to look for in a college. Fit is everything, and there are so many more relevant qualities to weigh, such as the ones you listed. [/quote] Diversity, which if course is much more than skin color, is one of the top 5-6 considerations for my DD's fit matrix. [/quote]

Its of significant importance to one of my kids who is white but stands out with a visible physical difference and he's much more comfortable in einvironments where not everyone looks the same (even if they don't have the same difference he as).  So, if it's not important to you, fine, it matters to some others so I appreciate knowing this about BC.[/quote]
I didn’t pay attention to diversity and ended up transferring after a year at W&L.  My experience there reminded me of the old Eddie Murphy SNL skit where he goes undercover as a white person and is shocked at how differently white folks act when there are no black people around.  I actually met people who considered Jews and Catholics to be non-white and took total enmity between ethnic groups absolutely for granted.  It really shook me because those people acted totally different (nice, considerate, PC)  when they were around non-whites, but as soon as they perceived themselves to be alone, this whole other culture came out. I was actually dancing with a girl at a party when she suddenly started loudly singing along to the song that was playing with alternate, racist lyrics.  It was pretty shocking - she had been acting totally normal up to then.

I should add that I’m from a working white class family in the South, and I had never encountered this.  I have lots of relative who talk in non-PC ways, but they played sports with black people, have black friends and generally live much more integrated lives than lots of people in the north.  But the creepy secret racism at W&L was totally new to me. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics