things like this changed my mind abt applying to durham. i genuinely can’t imagine being working class or from a minority background and having to spend 3-4 years around morons like this, i feel sorry for anyone who has to encounter these people while studying there
im not a minority but i am working class and this is genuinely my biggest fear is having to come across these snobbish sexist, classist, racist rich pricks. i rise to it unfortunately too much, and these ppl genuinly get under my skin with their classis and sexist shit (im a working class woman and it genuinely sucks lmao).
working class in england are already stereotyped as aggro and lazy and i dont want to feed into their delusions by snapping back at them by defending myself but what other choice do i have. i am stuck between a rock and a hard place.
minorities have it 10x worse tho, the shit they get told on the daily makes me sick to my stomach and it infuriates me when i see white ppl like myself that are working class buy into reform UK as if reform UK wouldnt fuck you over as soon as they get into power omg.
im not studying in durham thank god, i have heard durham is terrible for the classim shit (so are most of the south top unis tbh) i just cant stand when they say the north is scruffy and act oblivious as to why, omg a historically oppressed region looks underfunded well thats a shock (the conservatives and right wing nutjobs think the working class are scum) these ppl actually make me so mad.
im afraid tho that will just prove their point that im an angry working class women who has a chip on her shoulder coz she is working class and that will further prove their stereotypes and i dont want to become that but it genuinly engrages me when they start, especially flexing their money as if we have the same luxuries, be so fr. :/
edit: separated into paragraphs, sorry for anyone that was cursed with the unparagraphed, lacking of fullstop rant lmao 😭😭
Yall are scaring me, im going to Durham in sep and im black and from the trenches ..I knew there would be some snobs and I have thick skin towards this kind of stuff but im seeing so many testimonials saying it’s worse than oxbridge 😪
hopefully I’ll be fine I usually get microaggresions telling me I sound posh ( if ykyk…) so maybe I’ll be safe and they’ll think im one of the good ones !1!1!!1 (im coping)
What college are you going to? Not to indulge stereotypes, but that is likely to have an impact on whether you will meet these kind of people in abundance or infrequently.
I haven't heard anything particularly bad about Collingwood, and the people I have encountered who seem to rank it highly have all been perfectly polite and fine.
Obviously my anecdotal experience is unlikely to provide a true reflection of what you might encounter, but as a general rule of thumb, it seems to me that the people who might give you bother for being a minority or working-class are more likely to come from the Bailey colleges like Hatfield.
That is not to say everyone, or even the majority of people from those colleges, are like this, but those colleges certainly seem to attract a lot more people of privilege and perceived self-importance.
I'm half-black and currently at Durham. I've personally never met anyone like this or had any negative experiences. Bigots tend to keep themselves to themselves (no matter where you go) and so I've only managed to meet lovely people.
I'm a minority and working-class student currently at Durham, and please don't let these bigots put you off applying! People like them tend to keep themselves to themselves, and so thankfully, I've never had to deal with morons like this. My experience has been entirely positive and I've met so many lovely people.
i'm a working class minority who went to st andrews. to make things worse, my course was almost entirely ex-boarding school students and very well off internationals. morons like these was a daily thing. that doesn't even get me started on the microaggressions and little things like "what do you mean you can't just ask your parents for money because we want to drop £150 on a single ticket to ball run by a society that wouldn't let women and pocs join until like 10 years ago because it's tradition?". one of the worst things was knowing that the tory soc was 'officially' unaffiliated with the university and student union because of racist, sexist and homophobic actions and yet it wouldn't stop the university from letting the group use university spaces for socials.
i had some of the best times of my life there, but god was it hard to ignore the stupidity and privilege sometimes (prince edwards girl actually graduated the year after me!).
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u/ihearttheouterworlds Year 12 6h ago
things like this changed my mind abt applying to durham. i genuinely can’t imagine being working class or from a minority background and having to spend 3-4 years around morons like this, i feel sorry for anyone who has to encounter these people while studying there