Posted by alexandra_k on November 20, 2013, at 23:55:45
(sorry i can't reply to my own posts at the moment).
it isn't that *most* are undergrad / frat party focused - the problem (as always) is more about the salient few.
actually, I think a lot of students taking the studio options are muslim women. Partly because of the private bathrooms.
But that this building has a bunch of multiple room shared apartments - which (while being significantly cheaper) also seems to attract the socially / party focused.
I am very interested in this... Feeling as I do (though strangely for my culture) a lot of empathy for this idea of covering the skin (though I don't feel that way about hair or particularly about loose fitting). I... Would like to talk to more women about this... About what hajab means to them... Especially because it is clearly their choice to wear it in circumstances where it is not the socio-cultural norm.
And... About what a room of their own means to them... For their freedom.
Though to be fair they aren't the norm either. Just the salient few insofar as I have an interest.
I...
I really do love living with (mostly grad to be fair) students. The news... Well... Propaganda for the masses. Actually getting to talk to people about from all around the world...
I mean... I watch the news here in NZ and I think 'really - foreign people watch that and think that this is how I think / see things as a Kiwi' - problem being: It is not, really. Talking to people from all around the world... From cities... From small towns... With all kinds of prejudices and idiosyncracies and so on... It is pretty f*ck*ng cool, indeed.
My crazy Mexican friend who wanted to get to America, wanted to get to America, wanted to get to America... Just got a 2 year post-doc at Oxford. LMFAO!!! Salute!!
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