Pro-tip: do not refer to "New Yorkers" when you mean only "people from upstate New York!"
Also, you are almost never being snubbed. American universities don't invest their energies in institutionalized hierarchies and divisions amongst the students, the policing of arbitrary boundaries and privileges, and relentless self-mythologizing to anything like the degree the English universities do. Especially at the graduate level. While administrative staff are no more helpful at American universities than elsewhere, actual rudeness to the students is not generally tolerated. It's a lot easier on a stranger.
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on 2010-09-04 10:24 am (UTC)Also, you are almost never being snubbed. American universities don't invest their energies in institutionalized hierarchies and divisions amongst the students, the policing of arbitrary boundaries and privileges, and relentless self-mythologizing to anything like the degree the English universities do. Especially at the graduate level. While administrative staff are no more helpful at American universities than elsewhere, actual rudeness to the students is not generally tolerated. It's a lot easier on a stranger.