Alfred Lubrano How College Corrupts

Alfred Lubrano How College Corrupts BY robn215 College is the next stepping stone to better or advance ones favorable standing in life, whether it is moving from a blue collar lifestyle to white collar, or to persist in to further their career path. However, it comes with an unavoidable result. Alfred Lubrano discusses this unavoidable result in his text The Shock of Education How College Corrupts. Lubrano discusses the subject of how furthering ones education opens much possibilities but at the same time distances those held to the highest degree dearly.He explains that the more knowledge gained, the bigger the gap caused between friends and family due to differences in levels of knowledge. That distance is greatly increase if one comes from a poorer land where blue collar workers are the social norm. For instance, conversations within lower class households come off more militaristic due to the accompaniment that all opinions are dictated by group consensus, where what the class says is so. lay to the middle class household where they are talked to as adults..Lubrano does not try to dissuade one from go to college, he simply shines a light onto a hidden liaison that is not discussed when act ones education. Lubrano hits the intoxicate on the head about the distance gained when continuing ones education with friends and family, but does not consider the fact about that distance being magnified as a first times American. One of Alfred Lubranos of import points was how college distanced childhood friends as well as loved ones.He describes how he learned to self-censor himself nd only discussed customary stuff, because it was undiscerning to his father, a blue collar working man. Not to mention that listening to a starting motor discuss the divisions of race, equality, or politics, was as unsettling as riding in a car with a parvenu driver. In fact, Lubranos professor himself told his class not to discuss what they have learned in class, Marx ist theory, because it would down up the holiday. Under those circumstances, one can only imagine the distance lost trying to fat the topics discussed.Lubrano does an excellent Job of demonstrating the distance gained from the sheer fact of furthering ones education but does not consider the space of first generation students trying to advance their educational life. I am a first generation college student and my parents were nothing but proud of me when I talked to them about continuing my education, as a matter of fact, they blush bragged about it to other family members as well as bought me new items for school, clothes, shoes, and a laptop.But, neither they nor I was prepared for the detachment that as brought upon by trying to further ones education. During my first year of college I was expose to the lifestyle of being completely free. I had attended Penn State University, which is about four and a half(prenominal) hours away from Philadelphia, and during that time I h ad become wild and rambunctious. This was mainly due to the fact that within Asiatic households, the children are raised and taught in a completely different manner than an American household even though I was born and raised in Philadelphia.However, I was raised both by Vietnamese standards of discipline and espect without sceptical authority, whilst also being raised on American standards of critical thinking and questioning everything. As you can tell those two standards of living are not exactly compatible. So, when college presented itself with the opportunity ot decision oneselt, I indulged As a consequence ot turtnering my education, I had lost some of my Asian roots and as you can tell when I returned home I was not the same person. I was a soapy freshman with a year of college under my belt with the mindset of being a completely free lance adult.Causing omplications within my family and distancing ourselves from one another. It was even more difficult because I could no t discuss exactly what was bear on my relationship with my parents due to a language barrier. Granted, I did know how to speak to them in Vietnamese, but not without struggle. This due to the fact that as a child, I was more interested in watching Saturday dawn cartoons than talking to my family. Alfred Lubrano does a good Job of describing exactly how furthering ones education causes a disassociate between friends and family.For example, he had to self- ensor his thoughts and separates which topics he talked about in order to not upset his family. However, he does not discuss the topic of how being a first generation college student can cause an even bigger divide between family due to different cultural beliefs and the language barrier. Again, Alfred Lubrano does not try to dissuade one from continuing ones education whatsoever, in fact he encourages it. Lubrano Just tries to expose a hidden agenda that most people do not discuss about, and that is how college causes a divide b etween family and friends.