Cliques at your university!!!

'Ethnic minorities' is pretty safe.

may i join your "socially-inept-people-who-look-like-hippies-unintentionally-and-can't-hold-a-conversation" clique, please

i eat cookies for breakfast

I've noticed this too! So weird. All the black people seem to only hang around with other, and then there are asian/chinese/korean cliques too.

Cliques in my uni exist only amongst international students. Generally, all the Chinese students stick together, and just don't TALK to anyone else. And eastern-europeans tend to stick together, but are a bit more friendly to you than Chinese people.

In my subject, I tend to find quite a bit of cliqueness (spelling?) Well, it's more the 'types' of people on my course. For example, people who study languages are very diverse - but all the 'cool kids' study French, and all the 'unconventionals' study German. Obviously there are plenty of normal, nice and friendly people (like me ) who study either or both...but a lot of people who study French are the 'popular' ones, who think they're really amazing, but actually anyone that isn't a fellow 'popular' finds them really quite annoying, because they tend to be very stuck-up and exclusive. Whereas people that study German are just unusual, but they're all lovely.



ETA: Southampton really doesn't have a 'rah' contingent. Although, there are loads of people who wear Jack Wills, A+F etc., who I suppose could be called rah...but outside their fashion sense, they mainly seem down-to-earth...

That doesn't explain the person if you need to describe someone though. They could be of any colour just from a different country. The only descriptions I actually understand are the police using IC1, IC2, etc. Living in a non-multicultural area, I don't have a clue how to not offend someone if I needed to briefly describe them but didn't know what country they originated from.

IF SOMEONE WOULD TELL ME THE POLITICALLY CORRECT NAME FOR 'COLOURED' THAT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL.

I keep getting negs telling me not to do it, but none of them are telling me what I SHOULD call them. So, I can infer from that that I am wrong. If someone could tell me how to be right, that would be fricking awesome.

'Black' is fine. I don't think most would be offended by 'indian' and most i know refer to themselves as that. Learn where they are from is a good solution.

I always find it funny when someone tries to describe a, say, black person and says 'well, x height, black hair, quite skinny'... c'mon, its not offensive to just state their skin colour!

Not really... coloured people tend to stick together though.

In my Accountancy group, we all know each other and get on well, but we each have a special group of four or five (Mine is Jessica and the A Team as the group is me, Adam, Andy and Alex )

As for catered canteens, you tend to hang around with the people in your block, but it's not always the case if you, for example, go to the TV room and find you and someone else like rugby.

It's nothing at all like school or college.

It doesn't matter to me who negged me, just it's a rather unconstructive comment.

I dunno, PC is out of control. If any of these non-caucasian people want to tell me what I am supposed to refer to them as, it'd be really good.

The non-caucasian people I know say they don't really care as long as it's not "******" or other derogatory name. Coloured, black, whatever, they don't care.

People read too much into this sort of thing. It's just a word, and still a widely used one; what's the problem? It's not as blatantly offensive as 'Nigg*r'; in fact most people see it as the correct way to refer to negroes. Jesus, people need to get a life.

I totally agree, not all are black. I thought using 'coloured' was more general and polite to be honest... but oh I just give up... people with different coloured skins? I haven't a clue anymore!

lol i thought this forum was supposed to have intelligent people on it

"people with different colored skins?" but that surely includes white people doesnt it?

see the point? -very easy, black,asian,white, that should keep you going through life.

I saw Chinese Mainlanders, Hong Kong people, grunger brigade, goths, geeks and nerds (mostly ugly people), Asians (I mean Indian sub-continent), the stuck ups and some others stick to their own kind. **** sake, why can't they just socialise with other types of people?

At least there's no chavs because they're too bloody thick go get GCSEs in the first place.

If I'm a foreign student I would socialise with anyone I can get on with. Otherwise, what's the point of studying abroad.

and what exactly do u mean by a chav?

Yobs who think they're hard and act like one. They carry out anti-social behaviour, such as attackiing a single person like a pack of wolves, vandalise property, happy slpppin, etc.

If whoever negged me would be so kind to tell me how I should refer to 'coloured people/ethnic minorities/ etc. etc. etc.' to be 'politically correct' that would be really nice.

Wahey Im going to study french and german, cool yet unconventional