My first two roommates (tripled up!) in college were "Ag Tech" majors from the boonies: up at dawn, bed by nine, good old fashioned farm boys. They didn't know what to make of me and my suburban stoner ways. So they just kind of pretended I didn't exist. Worked for me.
Well, I always take my post-adolescent race cues from The Real World, where there are actually 4 racial temperaments.
1) Drunk, cavorting white kids
2) Drunk, cavorting kids of color who either
3) keep to themselves
4) try maybe a little too hard to co-mingle, uncomfortably in some instances, with the white kids, and they still end up ostracized with the white kids wondering aloud things like "Why is the black castmate keeping to himself so much? There must be plotting afoot, so we should definitely fight later in the season, maybe? Yes, we definitely should." It won't be race driven, it'll just be the growing pains that exist when one race finally acknowledges that the space-sharingness of living with someone of a different race makes their insides go all wiggly and tight with apprehension, confusion, love, and undigested corn bits, so acting out in some childish way seems apt and appropriate.
Cue most every season of this show. Even the one with Tek. Remember lovable Tek? Yah, they wanted to call him out for being lazy until he got to the job early and was like, "What, bitches?"
@Spirit Fingers: Or the black guy who comes IN with a racist chip on his shoulder, a la Kevin Powell. He doesn't keep to himself but is quite the opposite: in someone's face.
"Yo, Chester, why you gotta be wearin' the cowboy hat? YOu don;t like black people or something?"
@Ken Green: Nope. Powell mostly kept to himself. There was a bit of tension on that point because he had an apartment in Brooklyn, ( I think it was Brooklyn) while he was on the show. And I think the fight (oh, there's always a fight) started because Julie made some comments with regard to race. That always goes well.
I think they recruited people of color for the WI satellite campuses upon the condition they pose for those catalog photos. Now smile big and play frisbee! I said smile really big! You love living in this godforsaken frozen state!
I had two Chinese roommates in college (or were they Korean?). They mostly kept to themselves, studying to be doctors and cooking the same gingery-smelling dinner night after night. (Or maybe they were Japanese? Eh, who cares.) Anyway, the point is, it didn't make me one bit more racist.
Kidding aside, they were nice girls, but the smell of that dinner still haunts me.
@DahlELama: And one day, when you are a penniless foreign student in their country surviving on mac and cheese night after night, they will not laugh at you either.
@Wrapitup: well, i mean, from DahlELama's story, i get the impression that "penniless foreign student" is not actually in his future so you might want to consider that.
@DahlELama: Oh the food smell. year one of grad school, i was stuck in one of those dorm style apartment houses... separate rooms/bathrooms, shared kitchen.
me, 2 korean, 1 chinese. I think i only ever saw one of those guys, one time, but i also know that i used the kitchen only once. it was covered in grease/oil after week 1.
while tasty at times, the constant smell of frying dried fish is nauseating, and the two korean fellers would make their own kimchi.
My complaint was not with them. rather, as Agent Smith so lucidly put it... "It's the smell!"
@Artur Van Asinine: It is the smell. I mean, cook all you want, but I wanted to yell at them, "Make all the smelly food you want! But please don't leave it in the kitchen uncovered! And close the door to your room when you are eating it! And wash the bowl/plate in a timely fashion! BECAUSE IT SMELLS!"
@Conchie Birdie: Well, my husband's Asian, and when I cook Asian food he is like "shut the fuck out of the doors and turn on the exhaust fan before you cook that stuff!"
@OMG! Ponies!: Stuff Educated Black People (EBP's) Like! It used to exist, but it's down now. They must have decided that they were too good for a blog. Uppity Negros.
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Also, I am not having sex.
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1) Drunk, cavorting white kids
2) Drunk, cavorting kids of color who either
3) keep to themselves
4) try maybe a little too hard to co-mingle, uncomfortably in some instances, with the white kids, and they still end up ostracized with the white kids wondering aloud things like "Why is the black castmate keeping to himself so much? There must be plotting afoot, so we should definitely fight later in the season, maybe? Yes, we definitely should." It won't be race driven, it'll just be the growing pains that exist when one race finally acknowledges that the space-sharingness of living with someone of a different race makes their insides go all wiggly and tight with apprehension, confusion, love, and undigested corn bits, so acting out in some childish way seems apt and appropriate.
Cue most every season of this show. Even the one with Tek. Remember lovable Tek? Yah, they wanted to call him out for being lazy until he got to the job early and was like, "What, bitches?"
Racist.
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"Yo, Chester, why you gotta be wearin' the cowboy hat? YOu don;t like black people or something?"
Ha.
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They are socially awkward and make the other students uncomfortable especially since campus gun laws are all out of whack.
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Oh, I know what that's called!
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Oh, the other Crash.
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Kidding aside, they were nice girls, but the smell of that dinner still haunts me.
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me, 2 korean, 1 chinese. I think i only ever saw one of those guys, one time, but i also know that i used the kitchen only once. it was covered in grease/oil after week 1.
while tasty at times, the constant smell of frying dried fish is nauseating, and the two korean fellers would make their own kimchi.
My complaint was not with them. rather, as Agent Smith so lucidly put it... "It's the smell!"
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P.S. "deep-seated," because I'm grammarist.
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Things Asians Like? Things White People Like? Things Black People Like?
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Stuff Educated Black People (EBP's) Like! It used to exist, but it's down now. They must have decided that they were too good for a blog. Uppity Negros.
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I mean, the only reason he's smiling in that photo is that he knows he's got his Klan hood back in the plastic storage cube in his room.
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Damn you, you stole my idea!
You must be white.
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