back in 2004 I ran into an old Canadian colleague about a month after I'd arrived in NYC how do you like it? he asked good, I said have you noticed how fixated everyone is on what college you went to? he asked they are? I said (1/2)
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think of all the people you work with, he said (I'd been there roughly a month) ok, I said now think of how many them where you already know where they went to college, he said (I thought) hmmm. a lot, I said (I wasn't even sure how I knew. Osmosis? But I knew.) (2/3)
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now think of how many Canadian friends you can say that of, he said not many, I said (it was true, except ones I literally went to college with) Americans of a certain type are weirdly and unhealthily obsessed with college castes, is my point (3/3)
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One of the really great things about Canada is that it really doesn't matter what university you went to.
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