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- Alexandros Zervos
- Username: azervos
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Joined PRX: Feb 02, 2010
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- "East Coast Culture Shock"
- Summary: After experiencing her first semester away at college, Youth Radio’s Nora Harrington realized that the hometown she was so happy to leave behind was not so bad after all.
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Review of East Coast Culture Shock
Alexandros Zervos
Posted on April 27, 2010 at 08:31 PM
Being a resident of a multicultural city like Cambridge, I can understand how the narrator feels shocked when she is in a "monochromatic" racial setting. It is very clear that the narrator was feeling powerful emotions throughout her experience. That being said, I wish I had seen more of these emotions come out through her feature. The ideas are very powerful, but the entire story is told in a monotonous voice. The personality of the narrator comes out only at the end of the piece when she says, "I know, I know, how un-Berkeley of me." This piece could use more periodic bursts of sarcastic commentary like the above example. It's a good feature for generating discussion about diversity in schools, but it is not a piece that can hold a listener’s attention, due to its blandness.