Small villages in the highlands and other areas are pretty homogeneous. The coastal area would be more diverse racially in general.
Everyone’s entitled to their opinion but the way I read it and based on my personal experience with families that have spent significant periods of time in other countries for the benefit of their children - none have ever considered college admissions when they made those decisions.
While the US is very diverse I think folks are kidding themselves if they believe you get the same type of exposure here as you would by spending time internationally. Not saying one is better than the other but I do think the combination is great if one can afford it.
People tend to be open to new experiences when they travel (even for an extended period) in a way that they are not at home. They are more likely to determine that something is “different” than “better or worse”.
Usually when a family does this, it’s because they wanted the adventure and experience; the “it’s great for the kids” part comes afterwards.
“In America, it seemed every third child was taking pharmaceuticals to treat behavioral issues, anxiety, or depression.”
“I don’t find this statement alarmist but very accurate.”
From the numbers that I have seen, I think that this quote actually may be accurate. That is a rather sad fact.
It was the rest that I thought was a bit alarmist. However,…
I suppose that some high school kids are unloading automatic weapons on their classmates, but only occasionally at a very few schools.
I suppose that opioid use is reaching an all time high. It is not clear to me that this has much affect on high schools, and I have wondered how much of this is due to the baby boomers getting old, and having their sore joints, sore backs, or cancer require pain medications (with the limitations of legal, approved, non-opioid pain killers being an issue also).
I suppose that Wall Street is walking an increasingly tight rope.
I don’t know to what extent bankers are defrauding us, but a few of them did participate in the “gamble, lose, have the government bail them out, then use the bailouts to get personally rich” plan of a few years back, and banks are nickle and diming their customers pretty much continuously.
Oops, you might be right: The “alarmist” quote might actually be more accurate than it is alarmist.
“I suppose that Wall Street is walking an increasingly tight rope.”
Not if the current administration gets its way repealing regulations put into place post-2008 crisis.
“I suppose that Wall Street is walking an increasingly tight rope.”
“Not if the current administration gets its way repealing regulations put into place post-2008 crisis.”
I didn’t interpret this statement as related to regulation. Generally IMHO the huge amounts of money involved on wall street, and the enormous consequences if some sort of catastrophic problem occurs on wall street, means that the accountants and lawyers required to deal with regulation are both affordable and necessary.
I interpreted this as a comment on the apparent shakiness of the market, driven to extreme all time highs largely by low interest rates, and not much else.
Of course, since “wall street walking an increasingly tight rope” was a quote from elsewhere, I am now wondering which of these two interpretations the original statement meant (on re-reading the original article, I still don’t know which interpretation the author intended).
She could have found the same thing in Montana, except for the fire ants.
Yes because Ecuador is basically just like Montana. (Yes, sarcasm.)
I don’t like loose use of the ‘diversity’. Nobody is individually diverse, and diversity only exists in relation to a whole community.
not impressed
sounds like a poor choice. I know in certain circles this sounds “neat” .
licking ants in the amazon is not good parenting skills, and neither is denying a child who needs meds their meds …I bet she hates vaccines too. being different is ok, ensnaring your kids in the nonsense is bad parenting.
I don’t think you can make any assumption about vaccines from this.
I would gladly take that bet
Sounds like an interesting experience, but while our kids have seen Shamu and been to Disneyland, they have also trekked up a 10,000 foot volcano, snorkled with sea turtles and sea lions, climbed up and in and around native American dwellings, slept under giant Redwoods hundreds of years old, and rafted whitewater in high mountain rivers here in the US. There is true adventure to be found here too. I think one of my kids even tried eating ants in the backyard once.
My kids spent summers abroad for years with H’s family. Not a rich kid summer, just living in a simple home and going to the neighborhood day camp where they learned the language and navigated a different kid culture. I don’t think it helped with college admissions per se, but it did make them able to think more creatively. (Of course, we didn’t do it for college.)
With respect to finding simplicity and diversity here in the US, when I was young we moved to a rural community in which many of my neighbors supplemented their diets by eating squirrel meat.
If you want squirells or ants to eat come to my house…also racoons…possums…sometimes peacocks too.and some scary spiders!