A post that doesn't involve my father!
I had a lot of fun today! There are 2 girls in my honors program that I made friends with a couple of weeks ago, Kai and Maria. Kai is really nice Asian girl and Maria is a really nice Hispanic girl
(the only Hispanic friend I've made on campus!) . We are the only non-Jewish people in this particular class. :X A problem that the program has been under fire for for the past couple of years. A great majority of the professors teaching the courses are also Jewish as well as the
program director. A lot of students claim there is obvious favoritism in the classrooms, or so I hear.
According to Maria, one of my professors: an older Italian-American gentleman whom teaches speech/communication, became upset because at the obvious segregation in one of his classrooms. It was a relatively small class, but these particular Jewish girls would sit together at the back of the classroom. He often makes the class separate into groups so this became a noticeable problem. When he asked if they were associates from a previous school, a girl denied this, to which he remarked that if they were so good at making friends then they would have no problems being placed into different groups! :D This makes me kind of love him a bit more. If I were a professor I think I would do the same. School is where young people learn most of their social skills and this class focuses on forms of communications. He is doing his job!
Anyway after class Maria and I went for coffee at Dunkin Doughnuts and we had an amazing conversation about our experiences. We both experienced alienation from both ends of the spectrum. I also discovered that I am not alone in my HATRED of these extremely stereotypical optimum online commercials. I thought maybe it was just
me overreacting, but I learned that there have been numerous complaints/petitions against them.
In case you haven't seen them:Ladies at the hair salon ---> A Hispanic hair salon in nyc. Word gets out that Optimum online has cheap prices. The ladies are so excited that they rip off their smocks to reveal the tight spandex underneath and begin to
DANCE to some salsa. One of them is so thrilled
she gets a hair weave installed advertising their affordable prices
. Puppet family ---> I haven't the words.... Family and their talking pet Chihuahua do what else but
DANCE to some salsa!
Rapping pirates of the Caribbean ---> The title explains it all. Famous fat rapper, one of whom is dressed like giant sea lobster. Sexy mermaids begin to
Dance to some --surprise-- salsa! At one point
a mob of Hispanic refugees pirates swim to shore and begin to pillage the land of cheap cable television!!! Without a doubt the most annoying commercial to ever air on the East cost.