It really surprises me how some people present themselves in foreign countries. And the way I react to this stupidness is by not wanting to have anything to do with them even if we speak the same language.. and it is just sad. But i’d rather keep it this way..
There is this student who REALLY gets on my nerves, he keeps saying I am from country X whenever he raises his hand to answer a question.. even if it’s more than once in the same lecture! so I thought it’s weird but maybe he’s just too attached to his country and proud of it.. so why not! But it turned out that for him this is a way of saying I am rich, we have oil.. we have oil, we are rich!
And it doesn’t stop there. He keeps talking and asking about oil regardless of what the lecture is about .. so if the lecture is about monopoly, he asks about oil and he would of course have this introduction of saying ‘im from country X, blah blah… what about oil!!?’ If the lecturer is talking about diamond, he’d say what about oil?! if it’s economy, companies, game theory… anything and everything, he’d ask about oil!
I think i know him too well by now, to guess what his question would be and get it right even before he asks!
Sometimes I feel like telling him, show them more of what we are and who we are.. Don’t be this shallow, no one cares or wants to hear more about your oil crap!
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Aaaah ya Dima … I know EXACTLY the kind of people you’re talking about…
They give all Arabs a bad name! The amount of shallowness, rudeness and arrogance is jut unparalleled by anyone in the world!
reminds of this girl from Bangladesh I had with me a semester ago. He would always say: in my country….
Ah all these MExicans are quite annoying.
no? he’s not mexican?
Hareega.. only if I can speak Spanish!!!!
He suffers probably from an inferiority complex or he’s a nouveau rich trying to be the center of attention..but nobody really cares, outside his country he’s a nobody but like u said he gives us all the same color.
Argh, I HATE those people. You just cringe the millisecond that they begin to speak. And you DO know exactly what they’re going to say, because they’re so boringly predictable.
Hopefully someone will beat the crap out of him outside of class, as a gentle suggestion that he STFU. ;-)
Heh, taking patriotism to new levels I guess… We have a bunch of such students at my uni too..
*cringes at memory of those people
Well…OIL is what its all about everywhere….but yeah…its stupid to go around boasting about it…in fact its stupidly funny hehe…
I know you’re super-busy, but wanted you to know that you’re not forgotten! Hope all is well with you.
It has been FAR too long since we heard from you. I hope all is well with you!
Do you know, I still play that Boomshine game that you talked about! I LOVE that game. I like the music, too, even though it’s very repetitive.
Write soon. ;-)
Oh Marvin, I miss that game.. the music is so relaxing! I have been away, didn’t really feel like writing.. and the longer it takes, the harder it gets to come back and write something.. well let’s see, who knows maybe It will change :D
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