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Show Others issues, other groups, other ideas. There are problems of language, of race and of cultural traditions that are sometimes misunderstood by the local gentry. "We have excellent communication with the University administration as wel! as student and local community leaders. Our needs are not always satisfied, but we cannot complain for lack of attention to them." (Argentine) "I speak an entirely different language from you!" Lots of Indians are just cut off from everybody else. Lots of them like to be. "I am here in this country for an education.. .the fact that I am of a different culture or that I talk in another language makes no difference unless I plan to stay here all my life." "One of the main problems common to foreign students in the United States is that a person with an American education doesn't want to return home." "The community is somewhat hostile to the International Student." (Black African) "As President of the International Student's Association, I have personally checked several of these reports, trying to take leases myself... and they are often true." (Black African) "At first the language is a problem, but it disappears with time." (Irani) "An Indian who makes it to college usually doesn't have a language problem. Those that do just don't make it." (Amerindian) "I speak an entirely different language from you! Sometimes I can't understand my professors!" (Black) T Cultural differences often estrange minorities from the community. Mutual misunderstanding often governs social relationships outside of the group. "When we got here, everything was so strange..." (Black) "Persons here do not understand that our appearance has religious meaning." (Indian) "You like to be surrounded by people of your own type. (Amerindian) "On the whole, people here are friendly, if I take care not to probe their blind spots." (Argentine) A special feature on minorities should be unnecessary. Our campus is one of the very few where no violent protest has taken place. In our peace, it should be possible for us to assess minority difficulties better than those who must under strain. Creeping apathy and a blind refusal to listen to real problems are slowly burying our campus minorities in a bed of too-rosy-to-be-true ignorance. With any luck our lack of concern will push all minorities off campus and out of Utah before there are "difficulties." 65 |