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Students Complain African Themed Dinner Was Racist
//A Cambridge University African themed dinner has been branded racist because the invite used language from the Lion King and was held in a hall 'filled with portraits of white people'.//
//The university has come under fire over a controversial themed May Ball and has joined a long list of cultural appropriation accusations at the university this year. In March, it was reported that Pembroke College cancelled their Around The World in 80 Days party, which was met with complaints from students who said that the that the decision 'could encourage cultural appropriation' while other students said it 'restricts freedom of expression.' //
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Whatever happened to innocent fun? What a sour, dour, joyless, miserable bunch!
//The university has come under fire over a controversial themed May Ball and has joined a long list of cultural appropriation accusations at the university this year. In March, it was reported that Pembroke College cancelled their Around The World in 80 Days party, which was met with complaints from students who said that the that the decision 'could encourage cultural appropriation' while other students said it 'restricts freedom of expression.' //
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Whatever happened to innocent fun? What a sour, dour, joyless, miserable bunch!
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Part of the pleasure, and indeed the purpose of a university education, is to ensure that you learn to discover and express your views as an adult.
Because levels of maturity vary greatly at the age of the average student, this means that large numbers of young people are still carrying around vaguely formed ideas dosed with large amounts of self-righteousness, and the time to indulge in both for vast amounts of time.
This leads to high-profile fretting about things which people in the adult world, with jobs and children and mortgages, have either simply never had the time to think about, or have thought about them and placed them in their correct place in the scheme of things - as of little or no real importance.
The two worlds clash constantly, as students attempt to find their way, and think about loud.
We should simply allow them the room and time to grow their ideas and conclusions, and the inevitable aspect of that, which means making huge amounts of fuss about things that are really not that worthy of the time and effort they receive.
Because levels of maturity vary greatly at the age of the average student, this means that large numbers of young people are still carrying around vaguely formed ideas dosed with large amounts of self-righteousness, and the time to indulge in both for vast amounts of time.
This leads to high-profile fretting about things which people in the adult world, with jobs and children and mortgages, have either simply never had the time to think about, or have thought about them and placed them in their correct place in the scheme of things - as of little or no real importance.
The two worlds clash constantly, as students attempt to find their way, and think about loud.
We should simply allow them the room and time to grow their ideas and conclusions, and the inevitable aspect of that, which means making huge amounts of fuss about things that are really not that worthy of the time and effort they receive.
reducing all of Africa to The Lion King doesn't sound like engaging with African culture in the slightest. Is that really the level of Pembroke students' knowledge of a whole continent? Doesn't say much for Cambridge.
I don't see what they could have done about portraits of white people on the walls, though.
I don't see what they could have done about portraits of white people on the walls, though.
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