Luminy
I'm in Marseille now, where T is attending a workshop on Affine Hecke algebras and other things, yeah, I don't know either. We are outside of the main city at a university conference center in Luminy. I'd be jealous of me too with this view:
Met a friendly group of American professors who have made the transition into this community much easier for us by imparting on us their collective wisdom of the lay of the land. Two of them are black, and I was horrified to hear one's story of being told he could not enter the lecture hall at a university he was supposed to be speaking at despite having viewgraphs in hand. He got in anyway and as he moved forward into the room, he could hear voices talking about how they could have let a stranger into the room and how the speaker hadn't shown up, until one student greeted him as the speaker, and then the room went silent. The other professor didn't share specific experiences, but agreed he had experienced similar things.
You must have to develop a thick skin if you are to get on in life with that kind of response. I cannot possibly relate. I've never been doubted for my intelligence*, a result of the "model minority" image Asians have in America. I can usually deal with what little racism I've experienced by writing it off as ravings from narrow-minded dimwits that I will never have to deal with again. To have to deal with it repeatedly from unknowing colleagues must wear thin.
* well, I have, but as a result of poor communication because I didn't know a language. A very pervasive phenomenon I think.
Met a friendly group of American professors who have made the transition into this community much easier for us by imparting on us their collective wisdom of the lay of the land. Two of them are black, and I was horrified to hear one's story of being told he could not enter the lecture hall at a university he was supposed to be speaking at despite having viewgraphs in hand. He got in anyway and as he moved forward into the room, he could hear voices talking about how they could have let a stranger into the room and how the speaker hadn't shown up, until one student greeted him as the speaker, and then the room went silent. The other professor didn't share specific experiences, but agreed he had experienced similar things.
You must have to develop a thick skin if you are to get on in life with that kind of response. I cannot possibly relate. I've never been doubted for my intelligence*, a result of the "model minority" image Asians have in America. I can usually deal with what little racism I've experienced by writing it off as ravings from narrow-minded dimwits that I will never have to deal with again. To have to deal with it repeatedly from unknowing colleagues must wear thin.
* well, I have, but as a result of poor communication because I didn't know a language. A very pervasive phenomenon I think.