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When Youth Radio’s Nora Harrington left the Bay Area for college, she was excited about the new opportunities she would find on the other side of the country. Unfortunately, not everything she found was to her liking. Faced with “a monochromatic student body” where diversity was not exactly celebrated, Nora realized that the hometown she was so happy to leave behind was not so bad after all. “Looking back on my first semester of college,” Nora says, “I have realized what a wonderful place I come from.” (Aired locally in SF Bay Area)
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When Youth Radio’s Nora Harrington left the Bay Area for college, she was excited about the new opportunities she would find on the other side of the country. Unfortunately, not everything she found was to her liking. Faced with “a monochromatic student body” where diversity was not exactly celebrated, Nora realized that the hometown she was so happy to leave behind was not so bad after all. “Looking back on my first semester of college,” Nora says, “I have realized what a wonderful place I come from.” (Aired locally in SF Bay Area)
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YEB Review of East Coast Culture ShockAs a senior in high school, compiling my list of potential colleges was one of the most stressful things that I did. There were a couple of requirements, of course, that shaved the thousands of colleges and universities down to a nice neat Excel document with a total of 19 schools. One of the requirements, was that I get out of the Bay Area. I'm from San Francisco, the liberal-minded, the diversity; you name it, we got it. I want out as well. Nora's voice is powerful; it's clear that she's a very strong-willed and minded person. I definitely feel for her as she describes her roommate's tiny high school experience and the judging looks from her peers because of her wall of pictures. But I wanted to hear more. The experience from one roommate and stares from passerbys seem a bit weak for such a strong statement. I don't know very much about Berkeley High School. Maybe a brief description of the school would make it easier to see the huge contrast that she's talking about. |
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Review of East Coast Culture ShockI really enjoyed this peice. It was very intresting to hear that some people live such sheltered lives. The way everything flowed was great. It all seemed to go together. I felt as though I was really seeing this for myself. This made me think "Is this going to be the same for me when I go to college?" I like it very much. |
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Alexandros Zervos
Posted on April 27, 2010 at 08:31 PM | Permalink
Review of East Coast Culture Shock
Being a resident of a multicultural city like Cambridge, I can understand how the narrator feels shocked when she is in a "monochromatic" racial setting. It is very clear that the narrator was feeling powerful emotions throughout her experience. That being said, I wish I had seen more of these emotions come out through her feature. The ideas are very powerful, but the entire story is told in a monotonous voice. The personality of the narrator comes out only at the end of the piece when she says, "I know, I know, how un-Berkeley of me." This piece could use more periodic bursts of sarcastic commentary like the above example. It's a good feature for generating discussion about diversity in schools, but it is not a piece that can hold a listener’s attention, due to its blandness.