#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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Geez, white people are getting bashed for being diverse now? Maybe more people should learn about other culture….just for the experience and to gain understanding and tolerance for others. White people used to get bashed for being ignorant. This whole list is a bunch of ignorance.
Are you fucking kidding me? accumulating sexual partners a white stereotype? thats the blackest and most hispanic stereotypes ever. Binge drinking goes to the mexicans and DRUG USE is this a joke? i dont know a single black person that hasnt touched a drug. fuck that
For reals.
I WANT A MILLION DOLLARS!!! Can one million RICH WHITE PEOPLE send me one dollar apiece, puh-lease????
I don’t want money from any Asians, or Blacks or Hispanics. You guys NEED your money. I only want one dollar apiece from RICH WHITE PEOPLE who seem to WASTE their money by studying abroad.
Waste it on me instead. Thanks so much! (First person who comments “You ARE a waste.” is a rotten egg. You thought it. I know you did. Stop lying. See? I knew it.)
http://thepighasacurlytail.wordpress.com/million-dollar-fund/
I know one intern that studied in Rome, another one that went to Prague, and another one planning to go to Paris. All of them are white and they love to tell their stories about being overseas. Note: white people love to travel to Paris, Prague, or Florence
Had a friend who was in Europe for two weeks, and then later spent a week in Jamaica teaching kids music education during Christmas break. I quote “Living in Europe makes you grow up fast, man.” Like no shit Sherlock. Too bad you were hand held by a travel agency each time you went abroad. But do you know what, I’m happy for him; I think he never came in contact with black people before.
And for me? I never studied abroad (wish I did), but I do fieldwork in the ghettos of a major midwest city. No study abroad program will offer me that kind of “real life” experience. It’s not how far you travel, it’s how you interact with people and squeeze every opportunity to learn regardless if the person you come in contact speaks English or not.
White people stay away from the mideast. They think everyone there hates us.
http://www.beabetterproducer.com
Notice how the Middle East doesnt rank…yes, do not go to the Middle East for study abroad. At least if you studied in Africa they assume you’re curing terrible diseases. If you tell stories of an Arab study abroad, they smile politely and try to figure out if you’re more likely to blow up their apartment or bug their library card.
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