Alice_Vela MBA

My random thoughts

[Alice_Vela MBA @Velah97]

Applications start next month. If interested you can start preparing the requirements now 😊

Study in Taiwan 2023. All you need to know!!!
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[Alice_Vela MBA @Velah97]

New Video on YouTube 😊 check it out 😊
I LEFT TAIWAN 🇹🇼 FOR GOOD AFTER 5 YEARS OF CALLING IT HOME… this is why
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[Alice_Vela MBA @Velah97]

Dr Cheyenne Bryant reminds me of Sheree’s Dr Tiy-E on #RHOA 😂😂😂 same story.

[Alice_Vela MBA @Velah97]

The sinister portrayal of Africa is not random. They do it on purpose. There is something they gain from doing it.

[Alice_Vela MBA @Velah97]

As an African teaching English in Taiwan, I’ve started to think the way Africa is portrayed isn’t accidental.
I’m teaching from Sesame Street Village books (used by a lot of franchise cram schools here), and I noticed something weird.

[Alice_Vela MBA @Velah97]

As a teacher, I see how kids react to this stuff. They learn patterns.
What bothers me is that none of it is technically false. It’s just that Africa is always shown through the most unusual, extreme, or negative examples while everyone else gets to be normal.

[Alice_Vela MBA @Velah97]

Having someone to “open the gate” for us actually just provides a sense of security. Having a house help is also very normal in most middle to upper income households. He said we live a more privileged life than our equivalent counterparts in Switzerland.

[Alice_Vela MBA @Velah97]

My European boyfriend’s biggest culture shock in Malawi was how much help households seem to have. “What do you mean you have someone who opens the gate for you?” “So you just have someone who cleans the house for you daily?”
He was shocked that we ask kids to do tiny chores, too

[Alice_Vela MBA @Velah97]

Had to explain that asking a child to pass you things is part of the African child experience and that an 8 year old setting the table for dinner is actually normal. Kids are expected to help around the house. He said kids in Switzerland would just say no.

[Alice_Vela MBA @Velah97]

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#malawi #southafrica #nigeria #kenya

[Alice_Vela MBA @Velah97]

If people come into your country to specifically commit crimes that they don’t (can’t) commit in their own countries, I would think the first problem to address would be your country’s flawed system.

[Alice_Vela MBA @Velah97]

1st of all, an African wouldn’t yell “white!” to a Japanese person. We know how white people look like. This is made up.

[カッパ @numakarakappa]

私アフリカで黒人女から「ホワイト！」とか言ってゴミ投げつけられたことあるのよ。生粋の日本人だけどね。言っとくけど一番の差別主義者は黒人だからね。結構多くの日本人が知らないっぽいけど、黒人はアジア人差別めっちゃするし白人差別もするし、なんなら黒人同士でもよくわからん差別してるからね

[Alice_Vela MBA @Velah97]

I know it’s normal in my country. I also went through it at Marymount and I turned out “fine” but I am not going to send my kids to a boarding school in Malawi where most of the diet consists of beans. Something about it just seems cruel.

[Alice_Vela MBA @Velah97]

Totally normal in East Asia

[BaLox @Baloxxd]

Congratulations to me!

Finally a House owner 🏠🎉

[Alice_Vela MBA @Velah97]

The worst poverty I have seen was out of Africa.

[Alice_Vela MBA @Velah97]

I’m pushing 30, there is another girl who is pushing 30 too actively lying to me that she is dating some Filipino pop star from a famous P-Pop group. People in secondary school didn’t even lie like this 😅 #sb19

[Alice_Vela MBA @Velah97]

As a Malawian woman my biggest fight in my lates and probably forever will be fighting a big stomach and big arms off.

[Alice_Vela MBA @Velah97]

My mom is in her early 50s wanting grandkids. At this trajectory, all my siblings and I will be raising teenagers in our 50s.