Aliens

No, not the outerspace kind. The kind that are non i*m*grants in the US. Why on earth do they have to use that term anyway? Isn't "foriegn" enough? Everytime I have to check off a box to mark that I'm an 'alien' I get so peeved. Even my professors and supervisors crack up at the thought that I'm an alien. It sounds so degrading somehow. Like you shouldn't be in the country. Benci ok.

Now getting a job is so hard too. A lot of companies only accept applicants who are citizens or permanent residents. And I'm neither. Sigh. As you can imagine, the job hunt is progresing very slowly. Other than the one interview I attended two weeks ago, I haven't received any calls from any other company to come in for an interview. It's very disheartening. Yesterday I overheard one really upbeat girl telling her professor that she aleady has a job offer. It kind of annoyed me eventhough we weren't competitors. I wasn't annoyed that she got the job. It was more of the fact that she went on and on about how she felt sorry for her classmates that didn't get a job offer yet. The way she said it did not sound like she was sorry at all. It sounded more like she was proud that she secured an offer while her classmates were all grovelling around to get a job. I didn't have to try hard to hear her every word either. She was basically shouting it out so that everyone within earshot could hear every single word. What a snob.

Another thing I found disturbing is the fact that more and more talkshows, magazines and tv programs are promoting the fact that if you aren't beautiful, you cannot succeed. There was an experiement with a pair of gorgeous looking twins. They transformed one of the twins to make her look plain and not very stylish while the other remained the beautiful, stylish girl that she is. Basically at the end of it we could really see how one twin was treated compared to the other. I always believed deep down inside that people take more interest in someone who is attractive. They also take the time to learn more about you when you've captured their attention through your attractiveness. But I thought people could still be fair when it came to extending job offers or even an offer to attend a particular university. But maybe not in this country. Maybe in this country, where the hollywood stars are treated like royalty, where plastic surgery is the norm, where weight loss is a goal everyobody has, being more beautiful can get you ahead.

Maybe it's true that what's inside counts, but first you need to get someone's attention with your looks to ensure that they take the time to learn how beautiful you are inside too.

What a cruel world.