{"id":1454,"date":"2016-12-06T11:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T16:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/global-elites\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2016-12-09T10:41:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T15:41:08","slug":"1454","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/global-elites\/2016\/12\/06\/1454\/","title":{"rendered":"A Whole New World~"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a chemistry major, there’s a lot of talk about synthetic pathways, organometallic reagents, buffers and what-not. I’ll admit there’s not much about learning about people, unless maybe we’re talking about the old white men who are in our textbooks who discovered the damn reaction or made some scientific discovery. So, you can imagine this research project to have been completely out of my comfort zone. And well, it was an interesting experience.<\/p>\n

I was the group’s transcriber and trust me, it was not easy typing out three twenty-page transcriptions for each hour long interview. I spent wayyyy too long sitting in the science library furiously typing all the “ums” and “likes” in the interviews.<\/p>\n

The transcription process<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But it was rewarding. I was learning about someone in a different continent, and we lived in completely different worlds. Her educational experience, how she perceived the world around her, and her experiences in general were so starkly different from mine. One example, when she was asked to tell about\u00a0an event where she had a bad experience with a teacher, she recounted the instance when she had written ill of a teacher in her notebook and had been confronted about it; she had felt bad because the teacher looked so upset that she apologized for her actions. While I was transcribing, I thought back to the time I locked my teacher outside of the classroom and decided to run the classroom with a group of friends. Not only had\u00a0I been in second grade, but I remember refusing to apologize for all the trouble I had caused… In this way, this transcription process also allowed me to take a trip down memory lane and for me to reflect on my experiences.<\/p>\n

Even though I had never met her, it felt almost personal. By the time I had finished transcribing the second interview, I was able to guess when she would say “um” or “like” or laugh. It felt almost unfair to know her so one-sidedly. Most of all, it made me hope that we would be able to accurately portray her given how there was so much more to her than these three interviews.<\/p>\n

I have learned a lot from this class and it has made me reflect on my thoughts and experiences. I have come to realize privilege is a spectrum and the multifaceted nature of identities makes it hard to draw a definitive line in many instances. There were many times when I told myself ‘oh, they’re more privileged than me.’ And maybe in some cases they were. But my ability to look at others and say that they are more advantaged, without looking at those who have had fewer opportunities than I did, has been the most eye opening for me.<\/p>\n

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