> > It's also interesting to see and hear so many different kinds of people every day, to listen to the different accents (like Bostonian, Jamaican, Indian), hear different languages, or see someone wearing a turban. It's not as fun when you can't understand what one of your professors is saying, though.
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> Going to a college with an international reputation is quite a cultural eye-opener. Many of the people I know and grew up with are non-Canadian, but still, I had to go to university first to meet my first American...
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I went through the Catholic school system almost all the way through. My mother remarried, and we were off to (West) Germany, where I went to the American school for my junior and senior years.

Back in the states, my High School (a Catholic school in the Mid-West, mind you) had about 400 people, and out of them, six were black, the rest were caucasian (maybe one person was of Asiatic descent). Suddenly, I was going to school with a more (worldly?) representative racial mix. That alone was a cultural eye-opener.

Back when I was in grammer school, I thought Catholic was equivalent to Christian. I actually thought that non-Christians were called 'Lutherans'.

-Faux "Much as I liked Catholic school, I did like seeing what public schools were like." Pas