Opinion: Trump exemplifies why speech isn't really free
Some days I feel very lucky to be a Spider, given the difficult road I continue to navigate as a first-generation college student.
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Some days I feel very lucky to be a Spider, given the difficult road I continue to navigate as a first-generation college student.
When I tell people that I’m from the United States Virgin Islands, the unequivocal response is, “Wow! That’s so cool! Um, where is that exactly?” usually followed by a statement about how awesome it must have been to grow up in paradise. For many, anywhere in the Caribbean is synonymous with paradise. The irony is that the “United States” tacked on to the beginning of my “Virgin Islands” means that I am a US citizen; I carry a US passport. Yet many US citizens have either never heard of my home. Or if they have heard of the USVI, they have no idea where the islands are located. Still others just link the Caribbean with Jamaica, although there are literally thousands of islands in the Caribbean chain.