{"id":6200,"date":"2017-09-11T15:56:41","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T13:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/11\/working-class-and-bame-heres-how-not-to-feel-like-an-imposter-at-uni-poppy-noor\/"},"modified":"2017-09-11T15:56:41","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T13:56:41","slug":"working-class-and-bame-heres-how-not-to-feel-like-an-imposter-at-uni-poppy-noor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=6200","title":{"rendered":"Working class and BAME? Here\u2019s how not to feel like an imposter at uni | Poppy Noor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Universities are still overwhelmingly white and middle-class and adjusting can be tricky. Here are some tips to help you throughWith freshers\u2019 season fast approaching, if you\u2019re from a minority background, you can expect some of the following delights in your first term: \u201cYou\u2019re like black and gay? No wonder they let you in \u2013 couldn\u2019t let that box-ticking opportunity go to waste\u201d; \u201cI\u2019m not racist, I just don\u2019t like brown girls \u2013 it\u2019s the same as having a preference for blondes\u201d; \u201cyou get a full bursary\/maintenance loan? That is SO unfair. My parents don\u2019t get help with anything and we\u2019re really poor \u2026 Yes, we do have a house in France but all our cash is tied up in assets.\u201dBeing at university can be isolating if you\u2019re from a minority background. While middle-class peers don beanie hats and coopt mockney accents, your real working-class mannerisms will likely just single you out for abuse. During my own freshers\u2019 week, people assumed that I must have got in with concessions because I spoke using slang \u2013 as if I was writing \u201cbruv\u201d in my essays about Kant \u2013 while brushing it all off as \u201cbanter\u201d \u2013 that ceaselessly posh word that is somehow considered not to be slang. This downplaying of privilege for social kudos can feel particularly horrible when the perpetrator denies having gained any benefit from their own background, while mocking you for yours. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2017\/sep\/11\/bame-working-class-imposter-university-freshers-tips\" target=\"_blank\">Working class and BAME? Here\u2019s how not to feel like an imposter at uni | Poppy Noor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universities are still overwhelmingly white and middle-class and adjusting can be tricky. Here are some tips to help you throughWith freshers\u2019 season fast approaching, if you\u2019re from a minority background, you can expect some of the following delights in your first term: \u201cYou\u2019re like black and gay? No wonder they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}