Amardeep Singh, an assistant professor of English at Lehigh, writes about the experience of one of his students on the generalizations (some absurd, some weird and others downright funny) she encountered while grading an AP exam for high schoolers here. One can just wonder how much more insular can people get in this day and age if such perceptions still persist.
2 comments:
yeah dude. I read this too on Deep's blog. Incredible the kind of generalizations folks can blindly come to. Which only strengthens the theory, that for the most part, people are not interested ever in understanding or questioning why. Life really really runs on faith. Be it God created man, or a feather and stone fall to the ground with equal speed in vacuum. No one verifies either, just take it on belief. Interesting.
At least its better than the time I had to explain to colleague X that people really don't go to schools on elephants in many parts of India :)
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