The essay is done
So I finished it. I got to class 15 minutes late, but it was for a good cause.
I must say that I have never felt like an outsider so much as in that Walcott class. Walcott talks about are the themes that are closest to my heart and to listen to a class of mainly white girls talk about ‘those people’ refering to us in the Caribbean… I feel like an outsider. I am the ‘other’. Really weird feeling.
That’s it I guess.
October 3rd, 2006 at 2:30 am
Hmm.. I can sympathize. I remember being in a World Religions class talking about Buddhism. My teacher was a white, Christian male, in his 40s or 50s. He was telling me what my practices and theories should be. But he didnt refer to me as “those people” tho. I do remember him saying “they.”
Its weird, I never was able to be identified as anything… Im still confused.
October 5th, 2006 at 1:53 am
You can’t really get away from “they”. If you aren’t in the group you can’t fake it. “those people” on the other hand, spoken in that disdainful tone is something that can be avoided. “those people have no real culture of their own so … ” etc. I’ve resolved that the next time it happens I’m going to speak about it…