You know, I talk to Asian students a lot. Most of them are polite and won’t say anything negative about our country. But if you get to know them well enough that they’re willing to open up a little, they think this country is absolutely insane if not suicidal. They wouldn’t even imagine male students trashing dorms. There’s too much discipline for that, and I expect that was also true once in America. The idea of coed dorm rooms or transgender housing is simply unheard of in Japan, China, South Korea, or India.
Interesting comments about Asian students. There's definitely a major cultural gap at work there. I'll never forget those stories from the World Cup soccer games in Japan a few years ago . . . when the Japanese fans got all rowdy in the seats -- then proceeded to clean up all the debris in the stadium at the end of the game.
Perhaps so, but Japan has some wild, sick, crazy porn that most American porn-freaks wouldn’t dream of watching...so everything comes full-circle.
For the record, I don’t watch it. I had a roommate right after college that enlightened me a lot more than I’d have preferred him to.
IMHO the Asian societies are moving up in the world. Power is gradually moving in their direction. The West is heading down. Our power will gradually move their way. You don’t maintain discipline or encourage the establishment of healthy families through coed dorms or transgender housing. Again, it’s just my opinion.
My college still has separate dorms for each gender, but it is private as well. I am glad they have fairly liberal visitation policies though in terms of hours. Some religious schools are insanely strict, only letting you visit the other dorm on the weekends etc.
We could visit every day after 3, but closing time was 11 except for Friday and Saturday.
That was reasonable. Students still had sex...in cars or at houses of people off campus. But, at least the school kept some standards in terms of it not being okay.
I remember being very shocked once though when I went into the bathroom in my floor (which girls weren’t supposed to use) and two what looked to be high school girls were changing in front of the mirror. That was odd for us, but I bet that goes on all the time at these co-ed ones.