#47 Arts Degrees
February 1, 2008 by clander
When white people go away to college, they tend to study what are knowns as the Arts. This includes actual Art, English, History, Classics, and Philosophy. These can of course be broken down further into Film, Womyn’s Studies (yes the spelling is correct), Communications, Gender Studies, and so forth. It is important to note that a high percentage of white people also get degrees in Political Science, which is pretty much like arts, and only seems to have the word “science” in it to make white people feel better about themselves.
These degrees enable white people to spend four yeas of their lives reading books, writing papers and feeling great about themselves. It is a known fact that Arts students firmly believe that they are doing you/society a favor by not getting a job and reading Proust. They use this to protest for reduced tuition, more money for the arts, and special reduced student rates on things like bus passes.
But what about the white people who study Science, Engineering or Business? Unless they become doctors, they essentially lose white person status (and can only be regained by working at a non-profit).
So why would white people spend all that time studying and working to get into college if they are just going to read books that they might have read in their free time? Because white people have it made. They can take that degree and easily parlay it into a non profit job, an art gallery job, or work in publishing. If the pay is low, no problem, their parents will happily help out with rent until they magically start making six figures or non-magically turn 40.
White people can also take that degree and go to graduate school (future post) and eventually become a professor or adjunct professor where they will still require parental support.
If they are REALLY ambitious and need to make money, they can take that degree and go to Law School.
But the real reason white people need these degrees is so that they can sound smart at parties. Of course it trickles down to making connections, getting hired, knowing rich people, and so forth. But ultimately it all begins by saying “reading Henry James was the most rewarding part of undergrad.”
Using this to your advantage can be very difficult as attempts to talk about the books they skimmed while hungover can expose you. It is best to say that you were a first generation college student and your parents demanded that you study math, chemistry, economics or computer science. You had to read Joyce on your own.
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I think you mean liberal arts degrees, which include generally the humanities and social sciences. Economics, by the way, is typically a field in the liberal arts.
Having a liberal arts degree ACTUALLY guarantees more opportunities than someone who has a degree in something like business…because employers know one with a degree in something like philosophy or classics is intelligent.
Whoever made this website, you are really stupid…and you probably based it entirely off your life.
No one thinks someone who gets a degree in philosophy or classics is intelligent unless they themselves got a degree in philosophy or classics. Most likely they wont hire you, call you a hippy, and outsource your job to India since you have no valuable skills.
Hey you should go get a degree in literature…maybe then you would understand writing phenomenon like intention and person, and not make such an ass of yourself by calling the authors of this blog “really stupid.”
*persona
now who’s an ass…
Soon I will be graduating with a degree that required math up to Differential Geometry and physics up until quantum-specialization. An employer would be far more likely to hire me, someone with equitable skills applicable in multiple fields than you…someone who answered endless quandaries of no real relevance. The majority of ‘philosophy’ majors have somehow never heard of Ludwig Wiggenstein or Betrand Russel…I’d be shocked if they knew even the simplest boolean logic for that matter. However; Plato and Aristotle…yeah that’s helpful.
Your thought process is encouraging. I’m considering a major French, with either a Business or Literature emphasis. Hopefully some employer will consider this “intelligent.”
White people like to obtain higher degrees because they are mostly rational and self interested. Admirably so. I looked at the list of what whites supposedly like and it seems as if the author has only met yuppie liberal pukes that would live in most of the big US cities. SO…I have thrown away my whiteness for a degree in Chemical Engineering?
this whole debate right here is whiter than the article itself
So true.
left brain orientated,ultra rationalists will go to and thrive in the sciences and society esteems them more….right brain orientated,ultra emotionalists will thrive in arts and humanties.
Let us not rail at the universe for creating differences in our wiring! the world needs passion as it needs reason.
Yeah…. neuro-science has actually shown that there is no such thing as left/right brain…..
That is all kind of a myth made up to make people feel good.
The reason that sciences and engineering hold more esteem is since those are the people who make new products, that expand the economy, and also help make peoples lives easier.
These are also the same people who go and make technologies that help solve environmental issues, food shortages, energy problems etc.
Sounds like stuffwhitepeoplelike has some experience with this topic. Colorado or UC Davis?
It’s kind of pathetic how upset people are over this. There are two concessions that need to be made here.
1. Arts degrees are useless in many situations
True, when you want to fix a car or shoot a gun, knowing how Napoleon almost took over the world isn’t much help.
2. However, studying the arts is not worthless.
To dismiss the entire effort of understanding artistry is ignorant. Studying the past has always been useful in the present to see how similar situations may happen. Philosophers throughout the centuries have had an influence on the world, as have famous writers.
So no, perhaps a researcher can’t solder an iron but they certainly matter.
I am graduating with a BA in English and Technical Writing this spring, and most likely I’ll go back to school and get a certificate in Web Development. It’s no Masters – but at least I’ll actually have a USEFUL skill.
All Colleges and High Schools should require students to learn a skill with which they might actually be able to get a decent paying job. And then, once they’ve done that – they can pursue Proust and Henry James to their hearts desires.
Just saying. There would be less people in coffee shops at 1:30pm on a Tuesday, but does the world really need ALL those coffee shops? And all those “artists?”
I didn’t think so.
I smell Communism.
And not surprisingly, communism smells like Kung Pao Chicken
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This one’s flat out wrong. I love most of them. Haven’t really seen one I didn’t laugh at. But to suggest that getting a liberal arts education is ‘stupid’ or ‘ignorant’ is one of THE most ignorant things I have ever heard. Once you have a liberal arts backing, and can reason critically, you can learn anything in the world, and on the job.
Just so you know, who has the highest verbal and critical reasoning skills of any major?
http://www.ncsu.edu/chass/philo/GRE%20Scores%20by%20Intended%20Graduate%20Major.htm
I take it you must have an arts degree. No?
At no point does this article make any suggestions regarding level of intelligence.
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