oh god, why?
About five months ago, a girl from Afghanistan came to my town to live for a while. She came to my school for the first three months, and she was friendly and kind to everyone, even though they were all suspicious of her.
One day she just stopped coming, and I didn't know where she had gone, until an article came up in our local newspaper saying she'd gone to a different school. It didn't say why, but this bit pretty much explained it:
"Manati’s also encountered some stereotyping here in America, too. While she was at Pinecrest(my school) one student asked her if she knew where Osama bin Laden was.
'At first I thought he was joking, but I think he was serious,' Manati says. 'I didn’t really know who he (Bin Laden) was before I got here. I never expected anybody to ask me about him.'"
And my school still boasts whenever they can about how they're an International Baccalaureate school even though most of of the 1600 students are the densest in the state.
( trintrin has jam for blood, Sat 8 Jan 2005, 20:03, Reply)