I Hate FLEX Alumni

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I Hate FLEX Alumni I am an FSA u-grad alumnus with a destroyed dream. When in the States, I was dreaming to come back and consort with cool guys who would have a realistic view on life and do their best to make it better. I hoped to meet with people, representing future leaders of our country: independent and curious, intelligent and simple, lenient and understanding. Finally, I had my hopes to be able to team up with them to do something constructive, remarkable, and essential ourselves and our society. And now let’s see what I had to face when with heart overfilled with best expectations I returned in Uzbekistan… My, my, my! Would you just look at those so-called representatives of the best of our nation: lame, ostentatious, brassy, showy and finally brainwashed individuals, surprisingly thinking they are the coolest dudes with whom anyone would dream to hang out. That was my first impression. I was first reluctant to give my dream up as I suspected that it was actually me, who for some reason didn’t understand something because of culture shock ‘n stuff. But soon, I realized with aversion that it was an upshot of inadequate formation of an American subculture in their brains and many other reasons. Let me explain what I mean. It’s a well-known fact that out of all alumni, FLEX alumni (FA) are the best speakers of English. One of the reasons is that they go to the United States earlier than anybody else, when their minds are fresh, clean, and accepting. Those minds accept language, culture, customs, and habits without question and incorporate elements of western civilization in their mentality. That is excellent. The result is: remarkable English, a stronger built-in American world outlook, and blindly accepted values, in most cases unnatural for our society. The reason for it is that when FA went to the States, they saw how acquisitively cool it is to live there, they saw freedom, liberty and having swiftly decided that it is just-the-thing-they-want, commenced accepting everything without proper questioning it first. Envision an FA who comes back from the States and sees how dramatically different almost everything is in Uzbekistan. He robotically decides that since it is not American (and since American is always good). Hence, it is bad. And this dude doesn’t care to take trouble to try to understand that different may mean not necessarily worse or better, but just different. I call those pals: FLEX with attitude. It is not the mere relationship to FLEX that made me hate you; I have friends who are FLEX, but there is a huge difference between those who went to the States in their school years and came back, having changed, but at the same time, remaining a decent human being with opinion and not an attitude and those who go full throttle at being an FA. Actually, I am talking about a group of people not confined, of course, to FA, but to whom I refer to as FLEX alumni, as this group of people is the one, which typically represents a concentration of the qualities I am going to describe below. Let me give some definitions of a typical FLEX alumnus. So FA: One who willingly lacks social interaction outside of group of those, who spent less than 9 month in the States. Prefers to speak English even though he could better express his ideas in other language. Wears Janesport backpack and a FLEX related T-shirt. Likes to look American. Uses words “cool,” “man,” “great,” “cute,” “party,” “sucks,” “like,” whatever,” “dude” more than once per sentence (Dude, that party last night was so cool, and we had so many cute chicks and such a tight time.). It is with loathe that I came to conclusion FLEX do not like Uzbekistan, in fact, many of them hate it, and spend 90% of their free time hanging out with them-like alumni conversing about the States, how cool it was to live there, and the ways to disappear there again. Before I left for the States many FA I met, were dying to go back there again and warning me that I should try not to come back to Uzbekistan at all cost. I looked at them and thought: No, I don’t want go to the place from which you come with such a mind-set to your motherland. I went, and I was always afraid to turn into such a person, who forgot the place of his birth, who despises people around him because they do not know what a whopper is, because they do not speak English as well as they do, because their behavior would be embarrassing if they were in the States. This is particularly obvious when you observe a great change of attitude of a typical FLEX toward you when they get to know you’re an alumnus as well (“Oh, so you are an alumnus? Cool!”). After all, FA are not Future Leaders. I cannot imagine a future leader, hating his country for not being like America. I and some other people (FA included) call them Future Losers. May I be allowed to repeat: try not to take it personally (though, I know it is hard not to take something personally, if that something is personally about you). Here, in this article, I am talking about generally observed notion of behavior of FA. There is a great probability that you are not like those people (at least I strongly hope so), even if you are a FLEX. But what I wrote, I wrote because many alumni are really like what I just described. That’s why I really hate them, no; in fact, I don’t. I despise them. Yeah, that’s the word. I despise them for being such arrogant and betraying. Yes, I despise and loathe these brainwashed people who pretty much gave the finger to their motherland, and who so cheaply traded their culture for that of the US’s, having blindly given away the values they once had in their hearts (exchanged for cheap tinsels of the US, not having been able to discover under a layer of materialistic well-being, decaying morality, exiled principles of decency for success and low pleasures of this life). Personally, looking at some of you, I bitterly think that the world has yet to see representatives of a more insidious race of revolting parasites, life ever endured to creep upon the land of Uzbekistan. I bet 67.78567788% of people, reading this article, are thinking what the hell I am talking about. Well, I am talking about you, little hypocrite. Nothing personal, but I truly hate you. Sincerely yours, Anton Kim

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