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[jirafita]

Help!

My little sister recently came for a visit and I'm afraid that growing up in upper class, white suburbia is finally messing with her mind. We were listening to a story on NPR about apologizing to the Native Americans for killing their ancestors, taking their land, generally fucking things up, etc and her only comment was "Well I don't

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[lupineslave]

I just had the same realization with my cousin, who I assumed would be on the same 'page' as me since she goes to Middlebury and just went abroad. But she went on and on about how she would never date men without a college degree, adoptive families not being able to bond as well as 'biological' families, wanting to volunteer abroad without all living somewhere 'yucky' with bad food. She didn't say yucky, but she might as well have. Anyway, it made me really sad.

I just finished the Handmaids Tale, and really, REALLY loved it, although some of it might go over the head of a high-schooler.

But good luck.

[rhealitycheck]

you know some people take a little longer in the maturing than others do. and i mean at least she does want to volunteer abroad, that's a step in the right direction.

[lupineslave]

One can only hope. And I'm not sure if she REALLY wants to volunteer abroad, or what, since the topic came up in context to me wanting to do it. Of course, if she does, I'll totally support her. But I'm not holding my breath.
I was just taken aback.

[rhealitycheck]

ah yeah, that's true. but i mean it may also be a good thing that she's at least realistic about what she's willing to put up with in the name of good causes. i mean after spending 6 months in india, i don't know that i could live in a third world country again. not to mention there are so many people to help right here at home, sure there are countries that are far worse off than we are but there's a lot of work to be done in developed countries as well. (i'm not trying to criticize, just putting a different perspective out there for sake of discussion/thought)

[rhealitycheck]

ok so this first one isn't necessarily what i would think of as outside the box but it is historical fiction (one of my fav genres) and it gives you a great sense of realism about what happened to countries that were taken over by the British: The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh (it also happens to be one of my favourite books of all time in general as well

[anonymous]

fast food nation

[anonymous]

Diamond