07 March 2012

A Dilemma with Classes

I just had such a great class in Multiculturalism/multiethnism.  I was engaged the whole time and understood most of what we were talking about. We were talking about racism and prejudice in Argentina first. We discussed different types of prejudices/racism, like violent vs subtle racism. Then we talked about how the ¨blancos¨ (white people), when they emigrated from Europe imposed their beliefs and language on the indigenous people, causing tension.  We watched a video that looked at the perspective of an indigenous person. Many of them were forced to give up their own name and their language to save their families and themselves. This caused them to feel ashamed of themselves for giving up their heritage but proud that they could save their families. This is the kind of stuff that makes you think about the majority race as well as how our actions affect others.  I can see this class being very influential and will make me think outside of the box.

However, this was a class I was thinking about dropping so I could take Twentieth Century Argentine History at UCA (which sounds really interesting and would probably be easier than the alternative), so now I have a decision to make: I can either take tango and the class at UCA (but not multiculturalism)
 or 
 I can take Argentine history at UBA (which I hear is quite the experience and really hard and I would have to change my flight ticket to a week later to accommodate the final exam schedule) and multiculturalism, but drop tango.

Luckily I get to try out these two classes next week and if the UBA class isnt too horrendous that will probably be my choice. If only class schedules didn´t conflict!

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