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Rant!
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Hey all
I’m sorry but i am just so angry/annoyed that i have to rant about this.
I’m at uni and there is an exchange girl from the US (Pennsylvania) here (i’m in Australia). We get talking about politics — she’s a Democrat who is going to be voting Republican. I asked her (non-judgmentally) how come, why say she’s a Dem if shge’s voting as a Republican… Then she went on to say how Hillary Clinton can’t run a country b/c no one will take her seriously, she’s a woman. Then she went on abt how Obama isn’t really American — he’s African. I said well, technically he’s mum is from Kansas (i think…? at least she’s a white American) and his dad is from Kenya, but he was raised elsewhere as well as the US… so culturally he is more American than African as well as Indonesian(as he did not live in Africa as a child). [I don’t need to go into the details of TCKness here — everyone knows!].
THEN she began saying how in his books it was all about anti-white he was, how he hates whites, he’s a terrorist… I said that i had read ‘Dreams from my Father’ and that i had not found anything of the sort. As i said that she got this look on her face like ‘OMG this chick is so stupid!’. I said, no don’t look at me like that, i read the book to get an idea of his side of the story. You get information so that you can argue a point.
I mean honestly, she would not even consider the fact that Obama wasn’t some psycho-anti-white terrorist. She had not even read the books! Of course i know that it is human nature to write the best about yourself, but saying that he’s ‘African so he can’t run an American country’ without looking at the facts or thinking at several different perspectives really really gets to me.
And yes, even if this arguement had been going on about McCain (or another Republican candidate) i would have still be argueing my point because i beleive in not just lloooking at one point of view.
Question: Do you think that this was a cultural difference or what?
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March 30th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
I take my hat off to you Jez.
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March 30th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Jerry, are you in Software Engineering? I’m currently studying that at the University of Waterloo.
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March 30th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
not currently I guess…studied it as part of the CS program, and did a 1-year stint as a software guy, but more systems manager now.
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March 30th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
funny though, we’re friends with some Canadian folks here (NZ) that went to Waterloo!
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March 30th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
In the words of our dear silly friend Winston Churchill, “The strongest argument against Democracy is a 5-minute conversation with the average voter.”
And honestly, anyone is capable of stupidity and ignorance. Including TCKs. I met a lot of them in Switzerland, and they can be just as bad as anyone else. They often just have the *opportunity* to get better, and that can go either way. We just have to recognize the opportunity when we have it, and take it.
Anyway, that situation would’ve driven me up the wall too.
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March 31st, 2008 at 3:09 am
The problem is women do too, some are so conditioned by society, that I have found many with shovanist attitudes, which to me is most frustrating.
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March 31st, 2008 at 5:03 am
Such women are often the worst enemies of other women.
Yes I’ve run into such types too and it is maddening!
(I’ve seen this among both non-TCKs and TCKs)
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March 31st, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Maybe if one is in Isa’s situation one will probably understand the situation better.
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April 5th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
Hi,
He is actually African and American. Not African-American. Though because he has “African” in him, people EXPECT him to identify as an African-American.
And he actually is White too, that’s just not his skin color… he’s bi-racial. But he grew up in a White family.
I totally agree with you though. Good points.
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