Angry

Yesterday we had our AIESEC recruitment interviews. It was a very hectic but fun day; we interviewed around 40 people from 9am till 8pm. I saw people who were really motivated, shy people, scared people, aggressive people, dumb people, very intelligent people and normal people.

It was our last round and I only had two more people to interview and I was done for the day. If only I could wipe out these two interviews from my head, I think I would have enjoyed the whole day. The ignorance and foolishness that I found in these two people was enough to get anyone depressed for the rest of their lives. Both of them were English literature majors and both of them were looking to do some kind of educational or development training in Africa or a poor country. I asked one of them if she would go to an Asian country like china or Pakistan or Singapore to teach English for 3 months and she just freaked out. She was like “NO NO I don’t want to go there” and normally I asked her why not and she simply answered because I don’t like their food and they stink. Thank God Ali was with me to control me otherwise I was going to break my laptop on her head. An example of the other girl was when she was telling us a story about her trip to the UAE with a German guy sitting next to her on the plane. She told us that the guy had asked her what the thing over her head was (hijab) and she felt like he was ignorant and didn’t know anything about Islam. After a while Ali asked her if she was sent to another country and her roommate was a homosexual Jewish girl, what would be her reaction? (that was the craziest question ever, believe me I know!!) She grimaced her face and said she would be very scared and would not be able to sleep at night because she would be afraid that she would kill her. At that point I asked her why she thought that would happen and she said “because Jewish people hate Muslims.” I asked her if that was a fact or was just her assumption and she said you can ask anyone. I told her she was wrong and she should actually meet someone Jewish and then make that judgment.

I did something stupid that I shouldn’t have had but I could not control myself anymore. I told her in the interview that she was as ignorant as the German guy she met on the plane (I wanted to tell her she was worse because he at least asked about it and not just assumed like she did).

I’m all angry again …