#72 Study Abroad
February 22, 2008 by clander
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.
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Lol, you guys should change the name of this blog to “what white AMERICAN people like.”
LMFAO
I love this blog.
And I’m white, and Russian.
I’m White and I’ve been known to go native, by this I mean, sleep with some hot local that I wouldn’t normally have a relationship with. Vacation standards. Of course, I blog about it afterwards.
Good for you! You have revealed yourself to be a typical white male in that you sleep with non-white woman and brag about it later. Colin Farrell would be proud of you!
What makes you think Aerynn’s a man? Sexist!
studying a broad??!!!!
This is the most sexist, stereotypical, woman bashing……..oh….
…he meant……studying ABROAD….as in….out of the country….
…..uh…….nevermind…………..LOL
Study abroad may not be for everybody, but there is no reason to condemn someone who wants to experience something new.
… here is another (like Katy) who is taking it seriously…
http://ugandawithlove.blogspot.com/
studying abroad is a joke. Everyone I know had such a good time and loves telling you about it. Then I ask them if it was hard or easy. They told me it was an easy A. So if you wanna pay $4K for an easy A then you are not supporting our country. You might as well have just said mommy can I please go study abroad I will be the bestest child in the whole wide world. Have a nice day. Its like how frat boys get good jobs even though they are all cocaine heads and drug dealers…maybe frats were different when our parents were growing up.
I am white. I studied abroad in college. I lived in Spain for 10 months. Unlike most large state universities that house all their study abroad students in a big dorm on the campus of whatever country’s university you are studying with…I went to a very small private school that sent only 7 of us over for the year, and we were all split up around Madrid. We each lived in very different neighborhoods with families that spoke NO English. We were pretty much forced to learn the language and live in the culture. Don’t get me wrong…I had a great time, and I will gladly say that the trip was very inspiring…but it was NOT an easy “A”….maybe it was for those friends of yours who were likely speaking English for the entire three months they were away, but not for me. And yes…I have a good job (attorney), but I was not a “sorority girl”….
I feel a bit uncomfortable posting on a site called, “stuff white people like” but here goes. I studied in AFRICA in 1997 as a newlywed, and I’m proud of it. (By the way, I’m white) It was a positive, life-changing experience for me. I just started blogging about it, and would love to share my experiences with you. If you’re brave enough to read a lot about a white girl’s experiences in Africa, that is.
-Katy
http://www.planetperspectives.blogspot.com
Katy, your sense of humor is cutting edge! You should try stand up!
White people love to blog about travelling/living in other countries.
Whats funny is that the Americans who come and study abroad in Australia (at least at my university) only ever hung out with other americans, hooked up with other americans, downloaded their american TV and complained that they couldn’t get their american food….
Kind of like Australians in London.
Or like the English anywhere at all…
Right now if I was still in college I’d do Somalia…
In a heartbeat…
Them boys is badddd!!!
http://andthisismyamerica.com/2008/10/07/these-guys-arent-going-down-without-a-fight/
This post is sad but true. I hope that white people get more out of going abroad than simply what is described in the post, but I get the feeling that all study abroad stories follow this template.
actually, i think the middle east is a contender for the hot new place for white people to study abroad. amman in particular is crawling with white kids studying arabic and white people expats doing ngo work on iraq from a safe distance.
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