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Welcome to Political Confessional, a column about the views that Americans are scared to share with their friends and neighbors. If you have a political belief that you’re willing to share with us, fill out this form — we might get in touch.

This week, we spoke with C., a 42-year-old biracial woman who lives in New York City and is a scientific researcher. C originally wrote this:

“I feel very strongly that private schools — especially in a place with very segregated schools, like where I live in NYC — should be massively reformed. I would uphold a change banning these schools or promoting a requirement that an amount equal to the tuition of these schools must be paid into the public school system. This would have to also be upheld with ‘donations’ and monies earned with ‘benefit’ events. OR every private school has to offer a public school or two access to its classes and school offerings (teachers, sports involvement, travel, etc.).”

This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

Clare Malone: So how did you come to this position?

C: I’ve always felt pretty strongly about it. Just my personality must be one of being hyper-aware of inequality, and that’s why I’m in HIV research. When I was in my 20s and early 30s, before everyone I knew started having children, I was very much pro-public school. And then as some of my friends who are more well off than others decided on private school, there was a huge divergence in thinking. Some parents feel it’s their job to do only what’s best for their child in a vacuum, and then there are other people who feel what’s best for society is what’s best for my child. It was very stark when that started to happen. I didn’t lose friendships over it, but it made me see some people who I was very close to in a different light.

CM: What would you say your social class is?

C: It’s complicated for me. I’m not married to my boyfriend, but we have been dating and together for more than five years and we live together in a a renovated brownstone that’s all ours. Are we the richest people in New York City? No, because we don’t work in finance. But we are extremely lucky and extremely well off. So I would say that we’re on the low end of upper class.

CM: Do you have kids?

C: I don’t have any children of my own. People say, “Well, you don’t have your own kids.” It’s an argument that has only gotten worse as we’ve gotten into this individualistic politics of identity so that I feel even more unable to express my opinion because I don’t have kids. It’s almost to the point where I would have a child just to send them to public school.

CM: What kinds of schools did you go to?

C: I’ve had this discussion with my boyfriend. He knows how I feel because his son goes to a $50,000-a-year high school. I was talking to him about how I felt, and he said, ‘You had a very unique public school experience.’ We had no less than 87 flags of different countries flying in our foyer because it represented our student body. It was minority white, majority black. We had an amazing curriculum. We had a planetarium, and I took oceanography. We offered German, Spanish, Russian, French, Latin.

Who were you and what were your politics if you decided not to send your child there? The kids who went to private school tended to be what would colloquially be termed frat boys. That was the sort of cultural identity that I put on those kinds of kids. They had boats and lake houses and third homes.

CM: Is there any legitimate reason in your eyes for going to private school? For instance, in the milieu you grew up in, what if a kid’s parents were very Catholic and they wanted to send their kid to a particular Catholic school because they wanted him to have a Jesuit education?

C: That’s complicated. I do see subtle nuances in the world even though it may not sound like it! I have a hard time with religious schooling because I don’t like the idea that children, because they’re voiceless and helpless and need the guidance of adults, don’t get to learn things like basic reproductive health. Or experience other cultures. I just don’t like that they’re different curriculums.

CM: I want to go back to that conversation you had with your boyfriend where he says you went to a special kind of public school. Do you accede that point? How do you grapple with the reality of lower middle class people who, given the opportunity to go to a private school, might well choose that option?

C: The only way to make public schools good is to have children go there of all socioeconomic classes. I do think that it’s complicated for people who’ve been given a scholarship to a private school. It’s very hard for me to judge someone who doesn’t have a lot of money who’s been given the opportunity for their child to go to one of these schools. I guess my sympathy always lies with the people who have fewer opportunities. I don’t have a perfect answer. But let’s stop vouchers.

CM: Let’s go to the pretend world where you have control over this. Would you outright abolish private schools?

C: If I could choose a real solution, it would actually be a little less harsh. What it probably would be is that wherever a private school is, it has to have a sister school of children who aren’t given the same opportunity. If parents could push for them to have some of these experiences, I would think that would be a step in the right direction. I think that the hardest thing is that these children are in a bubble and the private school children are in a bubble.

CM: This is a New York City specific question, but there has been some recent controversy over “the test” to get into the city’s specialized public high schools — only seven black kids were admitted to one of the top schools this year …

C: Which makes me want to vomit. It’s gross to me.

CM: So there are even problems in the best of the best public schools — there are a large number of Asian students who get into the best New York City high schools and there’s debate over whether getting rid of the test would diminish opportunities for those students. How do you think about that? How should New York City handle the test?

C: It’s complicated because, listen — I’m biracial. My mother was a tiger mom, she’s Indian and, unfortunately, I was not a good high school student but graduated magna, got on the dean’s list every semester in college. It was definitely because my mother was a tiger mom and I know how to study and that was instilled in me. I understand what these Asian kids are doing and how much pressure their parents put on them, especially if they’re first generation parents and second generation children.

It’s not that I want to take away from them. I just feel that the class issues and the identity issues with African Americans in the United States are unique, that they have for generations been deprived and depressed and removed from any chance of success. We have to acknowledge that. We just absolutely do.

And if that needs to be done through affirmative action, I think it needs to be done through affirmative action. And I think that there is something to be said for being inclusive of all races. I think it benefits even these tiger kids who get into Stuyvesant — their lives are going to be better to have a diverse population around them, to have more white kids, more black kids, more Latinos.

CM: I want to go back to how personal this issue is — people can be in a relationship and have different schools of thought about how to school their kids …

C: My boyfriend is a saint because he listens to my opinions and still knows that I love him and his son just as much as if I shared his opinions 100 percent, so I feel lucky. He co-parents with my stepson’s mother very well, and they had a culture of raising him that I respect. They did what they thought was best for him, so I give way in a different way than I feel politically. I’ve hung out with a couple that have children and those daughters go to private school. I brushed on it lightly, and the mom said, ‘Oh, I lost that battle.’ She was like, ‘I wanted them to go to public school, but these kids are spoiled.’ And those are her own children.

CM: In the world in general but New York City in particular, class differences show themselves pretty clearly. What are factors besides education that you think affect the way children grow up aware of class and privilege? And are there ways to solve the inequality problem outside of simply reforming public and private schools?

C: This was brought up at a diversity evening my boyfriend attended. It came up that for the kids who are there on scholarship, they’re hyper-aware and feel different simply because of things like trips to Utah to go skiing for the weekend. Vacations, I think, are a big sign that you have money. And then probably social activities.

CM: Do you have a person you see on the political scene who represents a vision of education that lines up with your view?

C: I have no idea what any of these political candidates feel about pre-college education. Zero. I know Bernie Sanders wants free college tuition for everyone. I don’t know how they feel about these issues. Politically, I would love for someone to come out and call BS on private school vouchers.

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A to Z of Human Emotions

Let’s do a quick test: list every emotion you can recall without searching anywhere or asking anyone.

You ready? Go.

I’ll wait.

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How many words did you come up with? 4? 8? 10? More than that?

Every day, you experience a wide range of emotions you aren’t even aware of (yes, even as an adult). Recognizing different types of emotions and facial expressions build up your emotional intelligence which is the key skill you need to thrive in the world.

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In this post, I’ll give you an A to Z of of emotion vocabularies. You’ll find some of words from different cultures and languages (some of which are taken from Tiffany Watt Smith’s The Book of Human Emotions). Instead of trusting your memory, I recommend you to save this post to come back to it from time to time to increase your emotional awareness.

Now without further delay, here’s the list of human emotions and feelings arranged in the alphabetical order:

Acedia or sometimes called accidie, is an emotion that has no real equivalent today. It was a short-lived but disastrous emotional crisis, usually striking between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Its first signs were listlessness and irritability, but it didn’t take long to turn into desolation and despair.

Bafflement is a condition when someone faced too many options, particularly those poorly arranged in a disorderly heap, make it hard to follow, or know which direction we should proceed, leaving us feeling frustrated, or angry, even bilious, but most of all exhausted by a surfeit of information that creates a sense of blockage, and precipitates a feeling of existential angst for the random purposelessness of things.

Cheesed off is a form of irritation feeling; often described as being ‘browned off’. The expression ‘cheesed off’ can be traced back to the nineteenth century, used by the pilots comparing themselves to rusting engines. The reason why it became so popular among airmen remains a mystery. Some say it’s because cheese turns brown under a grill. Others, because cheese on toast was obsessively eaten while waiting, and the men were, quite literally, fed up with it.

Dismay is a feeling of horror and paralysis. It flattens us; it might make us cover our eyes. The term descended from desmaier–Old French, came to describe a feeling; in other European languages, desmaier morphed into words for falling unconscious; in Spanish, desmayo is a swoon; in Portuguese, desmaio is a fainting fit.

Envy is a desire to have the material possessions and advantages of others. It’s the sickness that comes on hearing another’s happy sigh, the ache of contemplating their success. As adults, we mostly feel it as a secret vice. It’s there behind the rictus grin that celebrates other people’s successes.

Fago is the pity felt for someone in need, which compels us to care for them, but it is also haunted by a strong sense that one day we will lose them. Fago comes in those moments when our love for others, and their need for us, feels so unexpectedly overwhelming—and life so very fragile and temporary—that we well up.

Gladsomeness describes the appearance of a glittering, shining thing. This meaning still lingers in the expressions “glad rags” or “glad eye”—the twinkle that attracts a lover. In the fourteenth century, gladsum, or gladsomenesse, began to be used to describe a brightening of the soul too, a sparky, bouncing feeling, which today we might be more likely to call joy.

Hesitant (rooted from Latin word, haesitant), is a condition when you’re slow to act or proceed (as from fear, indecision, or unwillingness). If you are hesitant, you do not do something immediately or quickly because you are nervous or not certain.

If you are inquisitive that means you love to inquire; you're always asking questions. You are eager to know a lot about people or things, sometimes in a way that annoys people.

Jealousy involves the fear of losing a person or their affections to someone else. It is triangular: me (the victim), you (the traitor) and the other (the thief). Such treacheries are all the more painful for the feeling of having been discarded. It is this threat that makes jealousy so inflammatory—and intimacy such a risk.

Keen came from the Old English word, cene, that translates to ‘bold and brave’ and while the spelling is now really different, the sounds are similar. If you are keen on doing something, you are very interested, eager, or wanting to do that thing very much.

Lenient means tolerant or relaxed, and is usually used when we’re talking about someone’s attitude toward discipline. If you're not overly strict, and you show tolerance and mercy when someone does something wrong, then you're being lenient.

Malu, roots from Bahasa Indonesia, is the sudden experience of feeling constricted, inferior and awkward around people of higher status than us. You might be experiencing malu if you clam up before your partner’s parents, or a conversation with a former headmistress leaves you staring at the floor and sweating.

The word neglect comes from the Latin verb, neglegere, which means ‘disregarded’. Neglect is worse than ignoring something. It's ignoring it, failing to care for it, and probably harming it in the process.

When something isn't fair, or offends you, it often results in your feeling outraged. When you're outraged, you're furious. When you're outraged, you're furious. You might be outraged over the rude treatment you get at a fancy, expensive restaurant.

Pathos is a quality that stirs emotions (especially pity or sorrow). A song with a lot of pathos hits you right in the heart. When someone tells a story about people suffering that makes you feel for them, that's pathos.

Came from an old French word meaning ‘carried away’, rapture is a feeling of emotional ecstasy so magical it's almost as if you've been transported to some other world. It's happiness so extreme that you just about float to heaven, complete with big goofy grin plastered to your face.

Serenity came from the Latin, serenus, meaning ‘calm or peaceful’, plus the English suffix -ity, meaning ‘quality or state of’. Serenity used to describe a state when your mind is still and perfectly calm.

Triumph came from the Latin, triumphus, which means an ‘achievement, success, procession for a victorious general or admiral’. It'll make you pump your fist and yell "Hurrah!"

Uneasy describes an uncomfortable feeling. You might feel socially uneasy when dining with your girlfriend's parents if they don't like you very much. Your stomach may also feel uneasy at that same dinner and gurgle in an embarrassing way.

If you spend all day admiring yourself in reflective surfaces — mirrors, pools of water, the backs of spoons — people may think you are conceited, or vain.

The German word Wanderlust describes a kind of longing for movement that runs as deep in the human psyche as love or fear. It’s the desire, as old as human life itself, to see what lies beyond the next mountain, or outside the boundaries of the village—and may leave us with the gnawing feeling that life only makes sense if we are traveling in some direction or another.

A yearning is a strong desire. If you have a yearning to travel in Maldives, it means that you dream about it and intensely hope that one day you'll end up there.

Zeal is dedication or enthusiasm for something. If you have zeal, you're willing, energized, and motivated. If you have passion for something, you have zeal, which is kind of a mix of eagerness and energy and devotion.

That’s all, folks! Isn’t it amazing how many of these emotions we already felt but didn’t know there was a word of it?

If you keep expanding your emotional vocabulary, you’ll be much more comfortable when dealing with your negative emotions and much quicker to appreaciate the positive emotions.

How many new words did you learn today from the list of emotions? Share this post with your friends with one new word you learned today.

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Acceptance Letter From A College Senior

By Tori Tucker Congratulations! You have been accepted into college; more than one if you’re smart enough or if you cheated on your SAT’s. If you have been accepted into two or more colleges you have your work cut out for you because you need to decide where you will potentially be living for the next four (or more) years. Firstly you should consider the proximity of your chosen school to your hometown. Unless you want Mom and Dad popping in on you unannounced every few days you should consider going somewhere that’s at least 100 miles away; unless you’re one of those weirdos that wants to go home every weekend, then by all means plan to stay close and live in your parent’s basement after you graduate. After considering proximity, you may also want to evaluate what programs you future school has to offer. If you think you know what you want to be when you finally grow up (and hopefully move out of your parent’s house) you have probably declared a major. Try to figure out what each school you’ve been accepted to has for programs that fit your needs, but also consider what cool programs they have to offer: for instance if a university has a space cowboy program, I would choose that one because let’s face it, you’re going to change your major at least twice before you graduate, so you might as well have some fun. Don’t fret about dropping a major though, because you’ll probably be able to work in your previous majors as minors. Once you have chosen a school, let’s say this one, you next have to pick a dorm and a roommate. Know anyone from high school going to the same school as you? Nice! Do NOT live with this person, because they will end up clinging onto you, following you everywhere, sniffing your hair while you sleep, and make you question if college is really worth it anyway. You will end up hating this person and yourself, and have to change dorms, transfer schools, possibly change names, and spiral into a horrible, life-altering depression. It’s not like I know this from personal experience… Just DON’T DO IT. Instead take the stupid personality survey and get assigned a roommate that you may share similar interests with, but not because the school took your survey into account, oh no, rather because you stalked their Facebook when you got your rooming assignment and browsed their interests to find at least one TV show or band that was tolerable enough to watch or listen to in the last months leading up to move in. Now that you’ve got your living arrangements squared away it’s time to pick classes. Most colleges will require you to take at least one language (unless you are literally fluent in two languages already in which case go look at your gen. ed. options and also screw you, why don’t you go to Harvard or something?). Now, some colleges have a range of languages to offer, like Russian, Mandarin, Italian, Japanese, and so on. But not here! Here we have less to offer than the average high school so get ready to choose between Spanish, French or Latin, a language that is literally useless in the modern world. The only option that’s any good is German because the professor is literally the coolest and you’ll actually learn something from her, but you can’t have a German major because apparently administration thinks that our program has such a small following that they want to remove the German language option entirely from the school even though we have the largest minor program out of all of the languages. However, keep in mind that no matter what you’re going to struggle through any foreign language class because your public school education did not prepare you with any grammar skills, so maybe consider taking an English grammar course first. Now that you are signed up for your classes you need to think about buying textbooks. You’ve heard about how the texbook sites rob people blind. But don’t worry, as a graduating senior I’ve learned some tricks and now I’m going to share them with you. The trick to keeping yourself out of textbook debt is to wait until the first day of class where your professor will give you the actual required text list which is usually considerably less than what the school bookstore will tell you, then wait two more weeks and mooch off of someone else in class that has all the books. This will bring your textbook bill down to a nice ol’ goose egg. Speaking of eggs, if you have a professor that assigns their own book and wants you to pay full textbook price, be sure to look up their address and egg their house. Finally there’s the worst part of college, the part your parents tried to prepare for before you were even born: paying tuition. There’s nothing worse than watching your bank account that’s in the five digit zone zoom down to a resounding zero, and it’ll happen. Now, unless you’re lucky enough to have parents to pay your way for you, you’re going to have to take out loans. Loans, after loans, after loans. You’ll be so far in debt by the time you graduate that even the bachelor’s degree you’ve earned in being the gangster of love won’t be able to save you now. My advice? Drop out while you’re ahead. A two year program in engineering is the best option here. As for the college experience, you were there for a semester. Stay in touch with your friends and go back for visits. They’ll love your quirky ways because they won’t have had the time to grow to hate you. So congratulations on your acceptance to college. Buckle your seatbelts kiddos, because whether you stay or go, you’ll have some wild stories to tell.

#autobiographical #comedic fiction #Keene state college #author #short fiction #tori tucker

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Gr8 Texting Slang In Six Different Languages

On December 3rd, 1992, a test engineer named Neil Papworth sent the world’s first text message, and it may come as a surprise to find out it was a fairly eloquent phrase — well okay, at least it wasn’t “LOL.” The first text ever sent was a simple “Merry Christmas.” And since that merry moment, textspeak has evolved alongside our technology.

When flip phones became popular — for you youngsters, those were phones without full keyboards! — letters were jettisoned in order to save time, which means that over a decade later, Papworth’s “Merry Christmas” had become a “Merry Xmas.”

Although today’s smartphones make texting full phrases a lot easier, it’s safe to say that textspeak, with all its nuance, is here to stay. Consider how you laugh online. Even though LOL, LMAO, ROFL, and haha mean generally the same thing, they’re certainly not interchangeable, and each one takes on its own meaning depending on the context and the person.

English isn’t the only language that has adopted textspeak. New technology has influenced how people all around the globe communicate. Here are some of our favorite examples of textspeak from six different languages.

Textspeak Around The World

1. Thai

You might recognize the phrase 555 as the beginning of a fictitious phone number from a movie or television show. But in Thailand, it’s used to denote laughter. In Thai, the pronunciation of the number five sounds like “ha,” so typing a series of 5’s is akin to typing “hahaha” or “LOL.”

There are other elements of Thai textspeak that involve keyboard shortcuts (or happy accidents?). In Thai, the word จังเลย (jang looei) is used after adjectives to intensify the meaning. However, young people have taken to expressing it as จุงเบย (jung booei) via text. The swapped characters are next to each other on the keyboard, so this probably arose as a typo initially, but now teens do it on purpose because they think it sounds cute.

There are also informal ways to say “I” and “you” that you’ll most often hear among younger people speaking amongst their friends. กู (goo) is a casual, gender-neutral way to say “I,” and มึง (meung) is how you would say “you” in that context.

2. Portuguese

Use this Portuguese expression when you’re just not in the mood: SQN stands for só que não, which translates to “just no.” An equivalent expression in the United States would be sarcastically adding “not!” to the end of a phrase.

Another one of our Portuguese favorites is BBB, which stands for Bom, Bonito, Barato, and means “Good, pretty, cheap.” There’s no precise equivalent in English, although a “good deal” comes close. We think Bom, Bonito, Barato sounds better, though.

To keep the good mood going, you only need to text mara (short for maravilhoso, or “wonderful”).

3. German

If your German friend cracks a joke over text, you can reply with g, which stands in for Grinsen, meaning “grinning.” Or, if it’s a really funny joke, you can throw in a few more g’s. The phrase ggg stands for ganz großes Grinsen, meaning “a very big grin.”

German textspeak also makes liberal use of abbreviations, particularly by replacing letters with numbers. For example: meins (1: eins) = m1 (“mine”), or Nacht (8: acht) = N8 (“night”). You can also shorten common phrases like Wie geht’s? (“What’s up?”) into a sleek and simple Wg?.

Texting frees you from a lot of formal grammatical rules, and you can do casual, lazy things with your language, like saying I bims instead of Ich bin’s (“It’s me”).

Oh, and if someone texts you that something is porno, don’t clutch your pearls right away. They probably just mean that it’s “cool” or “interesting.”

4. French

French texting slang is almost the opposite of its formal written form, which is to say, efficient and mostly devoid of accent marks unless absolutely necessary.

If you see the number 1, it could be referring to the sounds un, ain or ien. So in effect, b1 translates to bien. You also don’t need to bother with c’est, sait or s’est when a simple c will do.

To start a conversation, you don’t need much more than a BJR (bonjour) or sa va (ça va, or “how are you?”).

We’d be remiss if we didn’t tell you how to text je t’aime, which gets shortened to JTM.

And if you see the letters MDR, it means mort de rire, which translates to “dying of laughter.”

Hopefully that isn’t the response you get right after professing your love, but if it is, then, well, DSL (which is textspeak for désolé, meaning “sorry”).

5. Arabic

Over the years, new tools and technologies have made it easier to type in many different languages, including ones that don’t use the Latin alphabet like Arabic. That hasn’t always been the case. Historically, the Latin alphabet was the most accessible option for many people to write a text message or chat online. But as the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. The Arabic Chat Alphabet, also known as Arabizi, Arabish or Franco-Arabic, was born from these technological limitations.

Arabizi makes it possible to use a combination of Arabic numerals and the Latin alphabet to write Arabic words and phrases. For example, Arabizi uses the numeral 9 to represent the Arabic letter qāf, which is equivalent to the Q in the Latin alphabet. In Arabizi, the Arabic word for heart, qalb, becomes 9alb.

Using this system, you can text someone Kul 3am wa ente bi5ayr (or كل عام وأنتي بخير) to wish them a happy holiday, or Meshta2alek kteer (مشتقلك كتير) to tell them you miss them a lot.

6. Spanish

Warning: you may be confused by the following text expressions when you first see them, but stick with us, they’re actually brilliant.

XQ means both por qué (“why”), and porque (“because”). XA is para (“for”), and XO is pero (“but”). XFA is por favor (“please”).

So, what’s up with all the X’s? They’re actually multiplication signs. When you’re multiplying numbers, por is the equivalent of the English word ‘‘times.” Told you it was brilliant!

Generally speaking, your typical Spanish textspeak is going to vary depending on the locale, but it’s also not uncommon to see certain English slang terms pop up with a Spanish twist: likear, lolazo, trol, selfi, friki.

This is a lot to think about, but try not to overanalyze it. If someone texts you NTR, they just mean no te rayes (“don’t overthink it”).

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Gr8 Texting Slang In Six Different Languages

Textspeak Around The World

1. Thai

2. Portuguese

To keep the good mood going, you only need to text mara (short for maravilhoso, or “wonderful”).

3. German

Texting frees you from a lot of formal grammatical rules, and you can do casual, lazy things with your language, like saying I bims instead of Ich bin’s (“It’s me”).

Oh, and if someone texts you that something is porno, don’t clutch your pearls right away. They probably just mean that it’s “cool” or “interesting.”

4. French

French texting slang is almost the opposite of its formal written form, which is to say, efficient and mostly devoid of accent marks unless absolutely necessary.

To start a conversation, you don’t need much more than a BJR (bonjour) or sa va (ça va, or “how are you?��).

We’d be remiss if we didn’t tell you how to text je t’aime, which gets shortened to JTM.

And if you see the letters MDR, it means mort de rire, which translates to “dying of laughter.”

Hopefully that isn’t the response you get right after professing your love, but if it is, then, well, DSL (which is textspeak for désolé, meaning “sorry”).

5. Arabic

6. Spanish

Warning: you may be confused by the following text expressions when you first see them, but stick with us, they’re actually brilliant.

XQ means both por qué (“why”), and porque (“because”). XA is para (“for”), and XO is pero (“but”). XFA is por favor (“please”).

So, what’s up with all the X’s? They’re actually multiplication signs. When you’re multiplying numbers, por is the equivalent of the English word ‘‘times.” Told you it was brilliant!

This is a lot to think about, but try not to overanalyze it. If someone texts you NTR, they just mean no te rayes (“don’t overthink it”).

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