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“there’s a good chance my kids will be only white kids in their public school. i wonder if this will affect them negatively at all”
They’ll probably end up hating being white. Like liberals.
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rob i assumed at your school it was a naturally occurring gay dorm like lech describes? or the school officially made it a gay residence?
not sure actually. it wasnt just the gay dorm, it was also a haven for self-described freaks and stuff. it was officially the gay dorm tho.
i was in a program the summer before college for poor people and we got to take classes and stuff, got some extra financial aid, etc. i was like one of of 3 white people in the program. best.dorm.ever!! when i came back to school in september and went to my assigned floor i was like omg where did all these moonfaces come from!? it was a pretty diverse school tho, but my floor was packed with the kinds of white people youd see on tv and in the movies, it wasnt like the ones i was used to lol
*rob*
IJ;
The trailer from the film. By the way, I meant to write “Carthusians”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgNj2Sf_mgo
jackal,
Yeah, some of those folks were part of the mix but I wouldn’t stereotype it that way. It is a religious community with permanent residents who practice the whole yoga tradition (not just the exercise part) and guests come and go for weekends, weeklong workshops and stuff. One thing is that it is not for grab-bag new age dabbling (crystals, vortexes and stuff). It is just unvarnished yoga — only ancient chants, texts, teachings and practices (postures, breathing, meditiation, diet) that are part of that tradition. It is a philosophic/religious tradition that is culturally Indian and related to, but different from, Hinduism. Pretty well-sourced in surviving ancient texts. Experience is very different from what you would find at some true new agey place. I don’t go for all the philosophy behind it, but I really did feel great after a weekend there.
wow DH and donatella,
That’s kind of crazy,
but I guess it’s not unusual.
I knew a guy who grew up in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn and said the same thing; that he hadn’t spoken to anyone of color until college.
It seems I grew up in a Benetton ad or something.
probably. i worked at the Words & Pictures museum too. did you ever go there? i was the hot one. (j/k)
I had no contact with black people til I moved here, really.
Freshman year I roomed w/ my bestie from H.S. Neither of us wanted to chance living with a ‘ho bag’ who would bonk right next to us. After that, I had a roomie for one semester second year, then got a psycho single 🙂
By benson on May 27, 2011 2:01 PM
I did live in a dorm in grad school, however. I lived at Crothers Memorial Hall (or “CroMem”) at Stanford University. It was a dorm just for graduate engineering students. It’s social life was so fantastic that it was commonly called “The Cromem Leper Colony”.
Benson, you are a trip. 🙂
I was such a source of hair pulling frustration for my parents who just wanted me to calm down and be a nurse or a teacher. Your parents probably never worried about you.