On a lighter note.. let's do a "get to know each other" thread =D
07-05-2009 at 01:27 PM
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i'll make sure i don't do this when i come there coz i can understand how pissing off it is when other person does tht!!
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07-05-2009 at 01:28 PM
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coz i have experienced the same thing in my own country!!
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07-05-2009 at 01:28 PM
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It was the same at my highschool. People hung out in groups where their ethnicity was very dominant. Everyone was friendly with eachother, but it's not like they really hung out together. I don't like that. I have friends from all different kinds of backgrounds who I hang out with.
I have a primarily Jamaican background, although my family is pretty mixed up... and sadly, people from the Caribbean really only hang out with eachother - same goes for South and East Asian people. I think I only have one good friend from the Caribbean because of that.
That's why my first year at Mac was kind of difficult because people tend to only hang out with their own. It's not completely visible, but after going here for a while... yeah.
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07-05-2009 at 01:29 PM
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Lol, I hate that too. I don't understand any Chinese dialects but in Brebeuf a lot of my friends know a Chinese dialect. Very annoying when they randomly start taking their own language. But they don't do it often.
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Yeah. Even in my physics lab I was once partnered with these girls and the whole time they just talked to eachother in their own language. D:! |
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07-05-2009 at 01:30 PM
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That would be super annoying and rude if you're trying to work on a project together.
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07-05-2009 at 01:30 PM
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That would be super annoying and rude if you're trying to work on a project together.
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lol, see my post above |
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07-05-2009 at 01:30 PM
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It was the same at my highschool. People hung out in groups where their ethnicity was very dominant. Everyone was friendly with eachother, but it's not like they really hung out together. I don't like that. I have friends from all different kinds of backgrounds who I hang out with.
I have a primarily Jamaican background, although my family is pretty mixed up... and sadly, people from the Caribbean really only hang out with eachother - same goes for South and East Asian people. I think I only have one good friend from the Caribbean because of that.
That's why my first year at Mac was kind of difficult because people tend to only hang out with their own. It's not completely visible, but after going here for a while... yeah.
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We have a Jamaican in our group of friends ^-^
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07-05-2009 at 01:32 PM
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We have a Jamaican in our group of friends ^-^
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i'm dating a mauritian : D i think u know him quite well wink. hahaha.
Maybe someone should make a club for diversity or something |
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07-05-2009 at 01:32 PM
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lol, see my post above
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thts wat sew12 was talking abt i guess!! |
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07-05-2009 at 01:33 PM
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We have a Jamaican in our group of friends ^-^
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Haha, good to know. Throughout my life I've had mostly Caucasian, South/East Asian friends. People who had a background like me didn't hang out with me so much since they think that I'm white-washed, and that's okay, to each his own lol. |
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07-05-2009 at 01:33 PM
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i'm dating a mauritian : D i think u know him quite well wink. hahaha.
Maybe someone should make a club for diversity or something
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Lol, yes I know him quite well.
A diversity club can get really large though :\
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07-05-2009 at 01:34 PM
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i'm dating a mauritian : D i think u know him quite well wink. hahaha.
Maybe someone should make a club for diversity or something
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That's such a great idea, do they even have something like that at Mac? I wouldn't be too surprised if there was, but I don't hear about it.
EDIT: ;D Are you guys dating?? |
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07-05-2009 at 01:34 PM
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I'm not saying no one hangs out with people of other ethnic backgrounds, I'm just saying I find there are far too many clubs that are centered around ethnicity.
I've met lots of nice people of different backgrounds than me, but I've just seen tons of large groups of (mostly asians) only hanging out with each other and more often then not conversing loudly in their own language rather than English.
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Not trying to stereotype, but my observations over 20 years of being Chinese, asians don't like hanging out with people of different ethnicities, especially the foreign students.
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07-05-2009 at 01:35 PM
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Lol, yes I know him quite well.
A diversity club can get really large though :\
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wouldn't that be good though? more funding.. more events that could be planned and what not..?
and lol, yea u do! ;D |
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07-05-2009 at 01:36 PM
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That's such a great idea, do they even have something like that at Mac? I wouldn't be too surprised if there was, but I don't hear about it.
EDIT: ;D Are you guys dating??
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awww ahaha noo i'm dating his mauritian friend, also at mac  |
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