Although I consider myself a progressive, politically, Omelogor’s experience with the judgemental certainty of American grad school students really resonated with me, so quick to label the complex experiences of others as something to be scorned. “I sensed very early that my life was wrong in their eyes.” I appreciated this sentence in one of her blog posts “America is so provincial, like an enormous giant of a man from a bush village who blunders about with supreme certainty, not knowing he is bush because he is blinded by his strength.” This sentence particularly reminds me of the foreign policy of our current administration!
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Do you think it’s just American graduate school students, though? I think many groups in this country can be equally judgemental. I know I get pretty entrenched in my own beliefs and think that others are just plain wrong; I’m sure they feel the same about me. So I’m not sure it’s fair to say this only applies to grad students.
I was so ashamed of the racist behavior of intellectual liberal elites policing Olelogor speech & experiences as a person. Phenomenal book.
Of course it doesn’t only apply to grad students – but in the novel, that’s where Omelogor experiences this type of American
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