School day 2

Today was a bit more interesting. One of my classes today was "Whiteness beyond color". A study of the way the world treats the "norm" as white. Australia is a particularly study source due to the extent at which they try to create a nation that is "homogeneous in culture and race". Today we learned about programs that still haven't been entirely dissolved that crush the Aboriginal people. Like the U.S. kind of did with Native Americans but 3x worse. The government can STILL take children away in the guise of "humanity" in an attempt to re-educate them that Aboriginal culture is uncivilised and wrong. In the U.S., Natives are recognized as a sovereign people. Sure the U.S. didn't always hold up their end of treaties, but here in the U.S. Aboriginals are not considered real people. Legislature treats them as objects or things the state has to take care of like flora or fauna. It was pretty eye-opening.

The class was also invited to happy hour at the campus bar (yes alcohol is allowed on campus, and is even sold by it). I stayed for about an hour but everyone was either from Italy, France, or Germany. It was interesting to hear all the different accents... for about 15 minutes. The same small talk over and over is soooo boring. "Hi you are? Nice to meet you! Where are you from? That's really interesting! What are you studying? Yea I totally know what you mean."
rinse. repeat. snooze.