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Friday, January 22, 2010
Mean girls
A few days ago, moi et ma copine chatted about the past. We had a blast just talking about it. But later that night, I started to recap on the past and on our conversation. There was always gossips about whose body odor, whose outfits, whose crazy hair and who's socially retarded. I guess during those days I never imagined that I will be on that spot. New to everything and judged in about everyway.

One of the thing I like here in Canadian classrooms is that I can speak up. I can ask as many questions as I like and being loved for it. It's like a method of survival you know. Mes profs will finish one sentence or two and ten hands will automatically raise in the air. Those are not bullshits even, those are, ahem, intellectual queries.

But it is the thing that I have that sometimes contradict with the norm, that my fellow Canadian classmates will not interrupt. I can't judge the South Eastern part of the world like they do. They label them poor but I've seen better. They label them uneducated but hello, I'm a southeastern and my grade is better than yours. They label them - politically adverse but yaiks do you know how much U.S. is indebted to them? There are labels. Some ignorant even blabbed that U.S. recession impacted the whole world like 2012. Did she know what happen during the Asia Economic Crisis?

Those are the points that I put forth. I even put forth about the things that I have learned in my arts classes: isolation (NOT integration), sweatshops (NOT free trade expansion) and the saddest part is instead of deregulation such as what promoted by the so called free trade, U.S. is one of the most careful country in the world.

It is not in my nature to oppose whatsoever American but the thing is, our class is talking about something that is happening in Darfur, in Iraq, in India, in China, and other southeastern parts of the world. Just because the U.N interferes does not mean that the country is blameless, just because the U.N. interferes does not mean that there is a subsequent antagonist. What I'm saying is, there are two sides of coin. Labels should not be allowed and judgments should be kept until both sides have been carefully studied. Those are not just about issues. What needs to be deregulated is not the market, but the double standards concerning southeastern parts of the world!
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