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#72 Study Abroad

In addition to accumulating sexual partners, binge drinking, drug use and learning, white people consider studying abroad to be one of the most important parts of a well rounded college education.

Study Abroad allows people to leave their current educational institution and spend a semester or a year in Europe or Australia.  Though study abroad are offered to other places, these two are the overwhelming favorites.

By attending school in another country, white people are technically living in another country.  This is important as it gives them the opportunity to insert that fact into any sentence they please. “When I used to live in [insert country], I would always ride the train to school.  The people I’d see were inspiring.”

If you need to make up your own study abroad experience, they all pretty much work the same way.  You arrived in Australia not knowing anybody, you went out to the bar the first night and made a lot of friends, you had a short relationship with someone from a foreign country, you didn’t learn anything, and you acquired a taste for something (local food, beer, fruit).  This latter point is important because you will need to be able to tell everyone how it is unavailable in your current country.

It is also important that you understand the study abroad ranking system.  Europe/Australia form the base level, then Asia, then South America, and finally the trump card of studying abroad in Tibet.  Then there is the conversation killer of studying abroad in Africa.  If you studied in Africa, it is usually a good idea to keep it quiet, it will remind white people that they were too scared to go and they will feel bad. Use this only in emergencies.

Editors Note: Thanks to everyone who sent this topic in.


529 Responses to “#72 Study Abroad”

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Depressingly true. A major buzz-killer if you thought your experiences abroad were unique. Nope. You’re just like everybody else!


 

I am studying right now in Budapest, Hungary and my two flat mates are EASILY the whitest girls in the world. All they talk about is sushi and they get offended really easily at racist jokes not even directed at them. lol.


 
Starr Brainard on October 16, 2009 at 4:46 pm

Aw man. Do you think most people you talk to count Egypt as Africa? Or is it more scary because they associate it with the middle east?


 

Amazing! I love listening to people talk about how much they miss crepes from Paris, beer from Belgium and walking around Copenhagen! Working while taking a year off is good too. I drop grape picking in Switzerland and working in a Swiss kitchen from time to time!

Chas
http://StuffRichPeopleLove.com


 

Being a “white person” I find this website absolutely hilarious. I particularly enjoy this post since I am currently studying abroad. I guess since I’m in Peru that beats all the people who went to Europe?


 

thats funny, cause when i came back from australia i was like “this place sucks and its so full of other white people”


 

how’s the delicious food and excellent medical care in uk ?

they also banned mike weiner (savage) from their ‘country’


My wife is an American living in the UK and has had soup to nuts treatment for leukaemia, including bone-marrow transplant and all the latest therapies. She has instant access to the best medical care in the world. If she needs transport it is provided, along with many other ancillary services. If she hadn’t had private medical care in the US she’d be dead right now. Nice to be treated like a human being rather than a walking wallet.


 
 

ahahahahahahahah

from London, this stuff is AMAZING, i am reading through old posts now.


 

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