Saturday, 12 November 2011
International Week
Every year at our school, the student leadership club would host the so called "international week" event where the members would try to represent their assigned "country". The thing is, the members of SLC are not international students, and hardly anyone in the club has kept a close contact with international students. Most of them are Caucasians whom interests would , not in a million years, involve country relations or European culture. More than half dont know where Colombia is, and hardly anyone could tell a difference between Thailand and Taiwan. I always question every time the event was held: why bother? Why are you doing this while at the same time, the twelve dozens of international kids were being ignored? Are you trying to promote the importance of each country or what? What you guys did, was going right ahead with the idea, without ever having consulted with an international student; the only person who you guys talk to was the "international" head consultant, who is really caucasian, bestown his position after having stay at ONE of those country. International, my ass. And while the Chinese kids were trying to give some ideas of what they might like to see on the dishes, what did they do? They completely ignored them, saying its way to hard to make and that the ingredient is hard to find. So what did they do? They look up these "international" recipes online, which to the foreign kids are merely westernized rubbish food. What I really want to say is, what is the point of having the international week when the kids were ignored and no one really care what they think. this is so disappointing coming from a school receiving hundred of thousands of money from these poor kids.
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