ReillyDuffer wrote:Dear TH3U,
The students enrolled in Trent University are for the most part polite and inclusive. Many of the groups move together within culture and within economic status. Most of the faculty employed by the institution of Trent are also inclusive. Their student accounts office has a few bad eggs in the basket though.
The town of Peterborough definitely has people who are racist. The problem does not seem to stem from the older generation, many of whom are the friendliest people you will ever meet. However the blatant racism comes from some of the youth at local highschools and even at times within Trent itself.
On a side note, I find it very unsettling that the previous post from 'Ba Ba Blue' pointed at the elderly population without just cause!! That's discriminatory in itself!!! Know the facts, if you are just guessing, keep it to yourself or try to rid yourself of judgmental and discriminatory ideologies!!!!!
This is the truth, it has been experienced, and is also recorded in the Examiner(Peterboroughs newspaper).
Your comments about the high school students are just as unqualified as mine about older people. I'm not saying that either of us are correct (stereotyping in such a way almost always isn't), but rather that we have very different perspectives. I just don't appreciate the hypocrisy in the above comment.
Just to qualify what I said before, as now I feel like I should...
I've not had any run-ins with the older residents of Peterborough. I was just talking based on previous experience with baby boomers in other settings (and I've had plenty of these) where they mean no harm, but several of their comments either stereotype or they are genuinely apathetic towards other cultures. Of course this isn't inclusive of all people in that age group. I just noticed a tendency in the ones I dealt with to act this way more often than other age groups I worked with.
Extrapolating my small sample, I inferred that this tendency would be proportionately consistent in Peterborough where there are a lot of older people. I am sorry if that offends you - I am just going off my experience.
Yes it is a guess, but one based off my experience. Can we please not disqualify my experience even if yours is different? I have no discriminatory ideologies. If there was a sample I could interact with that contradicted my prior experience, I'd be more than happy to change my perception of the issue. As I said previously, my experiences indicate that the people are NOT racist in nature, but rather some people lack the knowledge to fully appreciate cultural diversity (again, only from personal experience). They are genuinely nice as you said, considering the knowledge they personally have.
Queen's-Trent Concurrent Education, '14 (Trent B.Sc) and '15 (Queen's B.Ed)