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  1. Anonymous wrote:

    RE: the Real World incident. I know Racialicious posted a seperate entry focusing on Parisa, a castmate of Iranian ancestry, recently. Parisa seemed to be the only one who was bothered by the inarguably crass and inconsiderate rant of Trisha. Parisa linked the derision of the McDonald’s worker’s Asian accent to the derision of her mother’s Persian accent in America, causing her to sympathize with the McDonald’s employee and further her antagonism with Trisha and her behavior. That struck me as very interesting.

    From the episodes I’ve seen so far, Parisa gets only well enough with a few of her housemates but on a deeper level is profoundly isolated in that she seems more intellgient, perceptive and serious than they do. I think that PERHAPS, on an even deeper level, her Persian heritage and her identity as an “ethnic” person in a house full of carbon copy blondes further isolates her, and makes her see her housemates in a very different light than from how they view each other.

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