Babydoll
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I was in the Fargo-Moorhead area...
It's midnight and I'm falling asleep and you guys are 2 hours ahead
It's midnight and I'm falling asleep and you guys are 2 hours ahead
Zee, there definitely are. I grew up in a town of 5,000, and it was virtually all-white. Sad, but true. And, it wasn't on purpose or anything, it's just how the town settled. But, that's why I love being in a city, because of the immense diversity of people, things, places, all of that.
Yeah I lived in MN for a few years before moving out here for grad school... this is SO much different and I don't stand like I used to
I sometimes was the only non-white person in my class...
Really? I didn't know that, Justin. That's great though, I'm jealous you got those experiences firsthand. It was always one of my peeves with my high school that we didn't do outreach to meet people from different backgrounds and stuff, other than a diversity day/week. But, that was too controlled and contrived for me, personally, and I think it would've been more effective if we'd been able to go outside of the school, rather than being lectured at by various people about their communities.
How come you guys are up so late?
The great part was that no one even gave the diversity a thought. It was just normal without pretty much any racial tensions. We were extremely lucky because we'd get 2 or 3 foreign exchange students every year. I knew most of the German ones that would come through. It was neat watching videos in German class and having one of the exchange students laugh at the absurdity of them. We'd have all the flags and names of exchange students hanging from the lunch room. There were Brazilian flags, Russian flags, French flags and a Japanese flag if I remember correctly. It was truly neat.
That said, military towns are terrible places in that all your friends leave after a year or two. I wouldn't recommend them.