Quickie update

[shaolingrrl]

Long flight, sweet people, great food (except sweet people keep thinking I'll spontaneously combust if I eat it, so first lunch was a Subway Sandwich). I'm the only one in the house the company rents for such occasions, and as a result I get hovered over. It makes me feel very weird. The house is in a gated community and Thaembi (sort of house

Comments

[albionidaho]

What a great adventure! I hope you continue to have an amazing experience!

[bugeyedmonster]

"No low people here. Only high people." lol! That reminded me of a woman from India whom I knew when I worked at K-mart. She swore up and down that in India, you cannot trust low caste people because they all lie. Only high people were honest. My mom thought that a very weird outlook.

Course we're rich Americans too (well not that rich, I don't have my own house, yet) but at least we're not on welfare or homeless.

I was wondering if part of that wasn't sort of society expectations; if you are low caste, upper caste folks will always think you dishonest, no matter what you do, so why bother trying to be honest. Am I making sense?

[shaolingrrl]

Perfect sense. When you're trapped in a crappy life, you do what you must to survive. Even so, I highly doubt all "low people" are dishonest.