Originally Posted by an dee 51o
Barrio Popular Culture though?
no, it had the "er" on the end.
What do you mean by hoodrats? How do you know how many times they took math and what grades they got?Originally Posted by SFC415
Try being a white dude in a Latino Studies class with a feminist professor...dear lord...I (and the few other white people who had the misfortune of taking this course) was pretty much single handedly blamed for Latinas who didn't want to embrace obesity (she said that the ancient Mayans/Incas were fat, so fat Mexican girls trying to lose weight were falling to the pressure of the white man, which made all the hoodrats in the class applaud the professorOriginally Posted by Yeah
I didn't want to be the one to say it, but my sentiments exactly.
), Latinas dying their hair blonde and posing for lowrider magazine, Selena's music not being popular outside the Latino community, lowriders with decals not being allowed to cruise around neighborhoods, taco trucks being scarce, etc. I mean I acknowledge that there are issues that white people have caused for Latinos, but THESE? what the @#%#I addressed the weight issue by saying that "Girls who do that are just trying to take care of their bodies" to which the professor snapped back "BUT THEIR BODIES ARE PERFECT! IF THE SLIM, BLONDE HAIRED, BLUE EYED IDEAL DIDN'T EXIST, THESE GIRLS WOULDN'T BE OVERWEIGHT"
I HAD to take this course to graduate because I needed a cultural GE requirement, and this was the only course available during my last quarter of college. "Barrio Studies 145"Got a C- in this class while all the hoodrats who took remedial math 3 times got As
I knew these girls because I was on their floor freshman year. One girl failed introductory math (some easy @#$ pre-calc course), retook it with pass/no pass option and barely passed after cheating off my friend, but had to take it again because her major required to have it as a letter gradeOriginally Posted by Chato
I never really felt anything in my classes. Maybe my school and my classes were more diverse. There were maybe 3-4 times in my time in college where I can remember being the only nonwhite person in my classes but I didn't think anything of it. Just did my thing and moved on.
What do you mean by hoodrats? How do you know how many times they took math and what grades they got?Originally Posted by SFC415
Try being a white dude in a Latino Studies class with a feminist professor...dear lord...I (and the few other white people who had the misfortune of taking this course) was pretty much single handedly blamed for Latinas who didn't want to embrace obesity (she said that the ancient Mayans/Incas were fat, so fat Mexican girls trying to lose weight were falling to the pressure of the white man, which made all the hoodrats in the class applaud the professorOriginally Posted by Yeah
I didn't want to be the one to say it, but my sentiments exactly.
), Latinas dying their hair blonde and posing for lowrider magazine, Selena's music not being popular outside the Latino community, lowriders with decals not being allowed to cruise around neighborhoods, taco trucks being scarce, etc. I mean I acknowledge that there are issues that white people have caused for Latinos, but THESE? what the @#%#I addressed the weight issue by saying that "Girls who do that are just trying to take care of their bodies" to which the professor snapped back "BUT THEIR BODIES ARE PERFECT! IF THE SLIM, BLONDE HAIRED, BLUE EYED IDEAL DIDN'T EXIST, THESE GIRLS WOULDN'T BE OVERWEIGHT"
I HAD to take this course to graduate because I needed a cultural GE requirement, and this was the only course available during my last quarter of college. "Barrio Studies 145"Got a C- in this class while all the hoodrats who took remedial math 3 times got As
I wasn't implying anything of that sort with theOriginally Posted by SFC415
I knew these girls because I was on their floor freshman year. One girl failed introductory math (some easy @#$ pre-calc course), retook it with pass/no pass option and barely passed after cheating off my friend, but had to take it again because her major required to have it as a letter gradeOriginally Posted by Chato
I never really felt anything in my classes. Maybe my school and my classes were more diverse. There were maybe 3-4 times in my time in college where I can remember being the only nonwhite person in my classes but I didn't think anything of it. Just did my thing and moved on.
What do you mean by hoodrats? How do you know how many times they took math and what grades they got?Originally Posted by SFC415
Try being a white dude in a Latino Studies class with a feminist professor...dear lord...I (and the few other white people who had the misfortune of taking this course) was pretty much single handedly blamed for Latinas who didn't want to embrace obesity (she said that the ancient Mayans/Incas were fat, so fat Mexican girls trying to lose weight were falling to the pressure of the white man, which made all the hoodrats in the class applaud the professor), Latinas dying their hair blonde and posing for lowrider magazine, Selena's music not being popular outside the Latino community, lowriders with decals not being allowed to cruise around neighborhoods, taco trucks being scarce, etc. I mean I acknowledge that there are issues that white people have caused for Latinos, but THESE? what the @#%#I addressed the weight issue by saying that "Girls who do that are just trying to take care of their bodies" to which the professor snapped back "BUT THEIR BODIES ARE PERFECT! IF THE SLIM, BLONDE HAIRED, BLUE EYED IDEAL DIDN'T EXIST, THESE GIRLS WOULDN'T BE OVERWEIGHT"
I HAD to take this course to graduate because I needed a cultural GE requirement, and this was the only course available during my last quarter of college. "Barrio Studies 145"Got a C- in this class while all the hoodrats who took remedial math 3 times got AsBy hoodrats, I mean hoodrats. Normal girls don't make it their life mission to fail every class but get an A in barrio studies, a class which focuses on lowriders, promoting obesity, and taco trucks. Stop reaching for racism, I know what you're implying with that "".
Chato wrote:I wasn't implying anything of that sort with the, just using it to show that I was focusing on a few select words that seemed to have gone overlooked. I wanted you to explain what you meant by "!%+%@$+". What is a !%+%@$+ to you might just be a girl struggling to adapt to the stresses of college life along with other unseen social forces. You seemed to try and diminish her and other people's accomplishments by labeling them as hoodrats.
Your experience in the class was unfortunate if you personally came out feeling blamed for the social injustices of the past. I had an overzealous professor who made things a bit personal at times.
My bad, I just had someone PM me with racial insults, so I made that assumption. But you seriously have no idea who these girls are and what they're like. As I said, I lived on the same floor with these girls for an entire year, so I always saw them at the same parties, classes (when they would show up), etc. The "struggling" girls are not who I am referring to. The girls I mentioned spent 95% of their time in sororities filled with similar women and did absolutely nothing but drink, eat, and @#$% dudes every night while spending their financial aid money on everything besides education (yes there are white girls who did the exact same thing and flunked out of classes like Introduction to Sociology, but I was only talking about this specific course) . This class was the only class they would show up to and actually put in any effort.
As for social injustices, that's not what was actually discussed in the class. I mentioned before that I thought I would gain a better perspective on issues in the Latino community by taking this class, instead I got 50 minute rants on why white people are the reason why there aren't enough taco trucks or lowriders in the streets. But yeah, I did feel victimized. There were maybe 3 other white people in the class, and we were constantly disrespected by the professor and other students. All of our opinions and statements were shut down by the professor and the girls who would whistle and applaud her ignorant statements. The essay prompts, midterms, and final exams were all based on her idiotic ideas (for example, there was a 6 page essay in which we had to write how Selena influenced our lives). I would've filed a complaint, but I ignored it because I was almost done with school anyways.
I know it's hard to imagine hoodrats at a "white" school like UCSB, and you probably think I'm exagerrating, but trust me if you visit there one day you'll be surprised
I wasn't implying anything of that sort with the
FamsOriginally Posted by sreggie101
qft. only black engineer at my firm(or ratherim not sure lol)
Same way I feel.
we all know racism and stereotypes stem from ignorance and poverty. For instance, if you never been outside of you're neighborhood, you tend to pass judgement on everything outside of your spot.
Originally Posted by ricky409
That feel when chicks dig you cuz you look this way... but act and perform in an awesome way =
That feel they tiptoe around anything racial b/c of you =
That feel when they switch their lingo up just to talk to you.. = :smh
This. Just like athletes/people in the public eye who are being looked at by young kids as role models, whether (we) like it or not, that responsibility is there and hasOriginally Posted by beh235
I know that feeling. It feels weird but, you have a sense of responsibility (at least speaking for me) to just do as well as you can (honestly, mop the floor with e'rrbody) just to prove you belong on the same level.
