Archive for the 'Cultural Insensitivity' Category
is there a connection between all these things?
3 Comments Published by hasan May 21st, 2008 in Cultural Insensitivity, daily life, observations.(The Sechuan Earthquake)
I was walking on campus when I noticed dozens of Chinese students from my university collecting donations for the terrible earthquake-hit region of Sichuan. It was odd having gangs of donation collectors strategically standing at every entrance to the university campus, running up to passers-by, asking for donations. This odd sensation, however, was [...]
hurray for racial profiling..
15 Comments Published by hasan October 26th, 2007 in Cultural Insensitivity, Japan, Travel, daily life, terrorism.One of the most difficult phases of my life was being a Middle Eastern student in a post-9/11 United States. I felt terrible for the victims of the terrorist attacks of that sad day, but I also felt terrible about the reactions faced by others of Middle Eastern descent in the United States. I considered [...]
A Horrible Wake-up Call, $25 and a Copy of a Holy Book
0 Comments Published by hasan October 2nd, 2005 in Cultural Insensitivity, terrorism.You know, just as I was about to go about writing my usual blog on how I spent 12 hours today with people from my sword club, and how there were a few things that blew my mind away, something LITERALLY just “blew up”; another bombing in one of the last beautiful places in the [...]
*Warning: Bitter Tone* On Memorization, Cultural Insensitivity and Motivation
0 Comments Published by hasan June 8th, 2005 in Cultural Insensitivity.Yet again , I have survived another day in Kuntachi City, Tokyo. I just got done memorizing 300 new terms within three hours. What a rush of information; I wonder if I can hold on to all these words at least until tomorrow’s vocabulary quiz. I find verbs the most difficult to memorize, but once [...]