<p>So I've heard that Emory is kind of like a Northern school in the South. But I've also heard that, despite the diversity, people are really clique-ish and stuck-up. Is this true? How friendly are the students?</p>
<p>Also, how liberal/open-minded is the campus? Is there really a big lack of school spirit (because of the no-football team thing)?</p>
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<li>I am not sure if Emory is kind of like a Northern School in the south. I believe somewhere between 40-60% come from the Southeast states. </li>
<li>It is very diverse; it is the most diverse school in top 20 in the USN rankings</li>
<li>I did not notice any cliqueish and stuckup behavior when I visited. Quite the contrary most people are kind of out to help you and students I met were very friendly.</li>
<li>I think this is the most liberal/open-minded campus in the deep South. (UT Austin, Duke, and maybe Vanderbilt might give run for its title)</li>
<li>School spirit can be lacking. Most students does not make this a secret. Despite this, they go to Emory for its Academic standing and amazing campus. (They kinda really wh0red up on Marble and Greek Architecture kinda)</li>
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<p>I think like 45% of of the student body is from the southern states (including southwestern, which is about 7% of that 45, so only 38% what I consider southern).</p>
<p>^^^^ Hahaha, the Southwest is still a part of the South…Rofl,</p>
<p>Students at Emory carry guns and they shoot each other while walking to class. Some would camp off-campus with a sniper rifle and shoot people’s heads. Says that about 150 students die every day and so Emory constantly need to replace them with transfers.</p>
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<p>Seriously, Emory is so diverse, you’d think there wouldn’t be such a homogenous group of cliche and stuck-up people. And there isn’t. People who told you that are probably just jealous they got rejected by top colleges and want to make themselves feel better. From all I’ve heard over the years, they’re actually really nice. Majoirty of them are wealthy, though, as 58% of Emory students graduate without debt.</p>
<p>Liberal and open-minded are not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, when it comes to politics, most issues are so personal or so deeply ingrained in one’s belief system that everyone is closed-minded by the time their in college. I mean I was in this health class where the professor basically spent half the semester talking about why the health reform was a terrible idea, but no one changed their opinion by the end of the class. It just gave the people who were against it a lot of ammunition, while the people who were for it stuck to the human rights argument.</p>
<p>Anyway, I think Emory’s liberal tendencies are overstated. I just think liberals are more outspoken and care more. I consider myself a libertarian, but if there’s a political conversation I usually just sit on the sidelines because someone’s gonna take a conflicting opinion personally and get ****ed off. Meanwhile liberals will rarely pay me the same courtesy as they go on and on about Obama the Great, how ■■■■■■■■ people like me are, and how evil we all are. Of course these are the same people who claim to be the caring and considerate ones.</p>
<p>So are we open-minded at all? I personally try to understand that everyone comes from a different background, has different values, thinks differently, and therefore will have a different ideology. But obviously I think I’m in a very small minority, as I just talked about how quick some people can be to insult others with different opinions. You know I would consider calling conservatives bigoted evil ■■■■■■■ a pretty ignorant statement. I mean what are you gonna just surround yourself with liberals your whole life? Because clearly you wouldn’t hang out with evil bigots. So now you’re just always around like-minded thinkers. How open-minded is that? Where’s the diversity?</p>
<p>^ I don’t think not wanting to mix with bigots constitutes being close-minded. However, exclusively wanting to mix with like minded people can cause problems, in most cases.</p>
<p>Second of all, liberals don’t think Obama’s that great. Im a super lib… and I think Obama’s too far in the pockets of corporations. Obama is a moderate (in American politics, that equals corporate friendly)… I don’t think Americans will ever understand that though.</p>
<p>Neither would I. My point was that conservatives get stereotyped as such, but that’s an ignorant conclusion. Conservative thought is not “closed-minded”. Likewise liberal thought is not “open-minded”. People who equate liberal with open-minded are just taking a subtle shot at conservatives by implying that their way of thinking is ignorant. Conservatives could just as easily call conservative thought “thinking for yourself”, because, as college students, we’re constantly exposed to liberal media, liberal educators, and liberal peers. And what does that imply about liberals? But that’s not really true either. Both sides have good and evil people, smart and dumb, open and closed-minded.</p>
<p>So it’s one question to ask how open-minded Emory is, and a completely different one to ask how liberal the campus is. But if YOU are open-minded then that shouldn’t really matter, should it? You could either surround youself with a bunch of people that agree with you, or you could open your mind a little.</p>
<p>to answer your questions…
emory is diverse but it is really clicky aka koreans hang out with koreans, jews hang out with jews etc.<br>
There is no school spirit whatsoever.
I would say the campus is pretty open-minded.
how friendly are the students? well…your mileage may vary…</p>
<p>el duque, I, for the most part, agree with you… except when you said “liberal media” ROFL. American media is liberal? ummm, what channels are your watching? </p>
<p>Both liberals and conservatives have got their problems but it is true that conservatives tend to be more stuck in the past, whereas liberals are more open to change. That explains why conservatives have more of a problem with gays, lesbians and, yes, sometimes even ethnic minorities. Are liberals at fault too? Sometimes. However, conservatives are overwhelmingly more verbally against (what I consider) should be a given: such as equal rights to everyone. Denying people that, to me, is close minded. However, if a self-professed liberal came up to me and said that they hated gays, I would call them close minded too. </p>
<p>But hey, maybe I’m wrong… maybe I just sound like a radical liberal again. I mean, if you think Obama is liberal… then I don’t even know where I am.</p>
<p>You’re probably farther left than most Americans. Most consider Obama to be left and most major news channels like CNN and MSNBC are also considered left. Also a lot of the TV shows and movies college students watch are written by leftists. South Park is the one exception I can think of.</p>
<p>I only know one conservative that actually has problems with people who are different, but he actually is closed-minded. I’m from Chicago, which is probably one of the most racist, self-segregated towns in America. I hear Boston is the same way. Both cities are also some of the most liberal towns in the country. Thus we have closed-minded people on both sides by your own description.</p>
<p>The fact that you believe your opinion should be a given is a closed-minded thing to say. That said I don’t think anyone would disagree with you when you state it broadly like that. But when you actually start listing everything that you believe should be a protected right, I think you’ll find there’s a lot of disagreement (even within like ideologies) as to what exactly constitutes a right. I also think liberals largely define change as expanding government, which conservatives are vehemently against, and then call conservatives “stuck in the past” because they resist “change”. What if conservatives called change decentralizing the government? That is change after all, but liberals are against it. Should we call liberals stuck in the past now?</p>
<p>I don’t think alam was trying to address change in context of government size. It’s kind of narrow-minded to believe that everything goes back to government size. Even if that were the case, many would argue that the neoconservatives (which seem to the most visible among Republicans today), in particular, would be for expanding national government in certain arenas such as defense and the ability to regulate various moral issues because they are “conservative” when it comes to such issues. Or they want “decentralization” to occur so that states’ rights prevail which, in many cases, can possibly stifle the “civil liberties” (I realize this is subjective to many people) of many living in the state due to the mere fact that they are a minority. Economic conservatives argue for decentralization (or some decrease in size) for, what I consider better reasons; simply because it cost less. That makes sense to me. “Liberals” (at least those most visible and influential now) tend to want to expand the scope of government in other arenas (welfare policies, etc). The difference cannot simply be reduced to the desired size of government. And it is unfair for anyone to claim that a true “conservative” (vague/broad term, just like liberal) would not want government to expand in any manner at all. </p>
<p>Anyway, let’s get this thread back on track. I don’t think the poster wanted us to explore various political ideologies, or merely tell about the political fervor here.</p>
<p>Not everything comes back to size, but that word usually comes up when government expansion is in question. Conservatives say the government is inefficient and wasteful, and liberals say they’re afraid of change. However, “change” is the vague/broad term. To say that conservatives resist “change” is narrow-minded. The only way that could be true is if you redefined change to mean what you believe in. And that’s essentially what liberals did. In reality, all politicians do is make laws, or change things. Liberals resist what conservatives try to get done or change just as much as the conservatives resist liberal policies.</p>
<p>Anyway the connection to the OP is that Emory leans left but that doesn’t imply an open-minded campus because they’re not the same thing. For instance, we were debating the health outcomes of the recent reform in class last week. That day only two people believed that the country’s health would not improve because of the reform. Then after the debate, several people had changed their minds to the point where about half actually thought we would not be better off. To me, that was a very open-minded conclusion. They actually considered the other side and decided to change their mind. But they went from a liberal position to a conservative one. Hopefully that illustrates my point clearly enough.</p>
<p>Linnus your up must be half empty.</p>
<p>Not a place for a debate. Please take it elsewhere. It depends who you are on how you are going to like it. Different types of people will have VERY!!! different experiences.</p>
<p>Elaborate more on yourself and I could help you answer the question better.</p>