I if I did, please correct me, but I would love to hear about you. Can you please tell us a little bit about yourself, your experience, anything you find interesting? Maybe a little something about being a student at Cal Poly. We are so excited to hear from you
Samuel Penate
@samuelpenate · 1:34
Going to high school though is just the way that high school made me push myself further and all the experiences and the hardships that I have to go through, I went through, to be more precise, when I Jas in Maryland put me in the position to liberate myself and move forward
Thank you so much. Wow. You've had a really incredible life. I mean, I can't even imagine what it's like to be a first generation bachelor's student and English as my second language. It just makes me think that I think I've probably not faced the same things that you have, obviously, being born in California and my first language is English
And also, you know, your double majors in sociology and culture studies is amazing. And on a more positive aspect of things, do you feel like not. Do you feel like speaking multiple languages and having a lot of like, world experience, like living in other places outside of the US, has, like, helped you or like, improve your experience as a College student here in Humboldt
Samuel Penate
@samuelpenate · 2:35
Honestly, I have had people telling me before embellishating my progress and all the hard work I have done. I can't really say the people's names or how I talk to these individuals, though, but for sure I had people telling me, oh, but your grammar sucks. Oh, you have an accent, but your academic performances before, they weren't that great. I'm not saying that I was an incredible student when I started, of course, because I was learning from the bottom
So cultural anthropology. That sounds really cool. Why did you get into that? When I think of cultural anthropology, I can't help but think about going and traveling to meet with closers all around the world and find out how they experience and induce psychedelic experiences. Whether it's through some sort of initiation or if it's through meditating together and being in Communion or if it's with psychedelic plants and herbs and other stuff. I wonder
But I think that the ones that do and still refuse to experience other cultures. Those are the people who are like, oh, you have an accent or like, oh, you haven't been living here long enough to have a say it's like, no, first of all, that's racist. And second of all, most Americans don't even speak another language. And if they did, they would certainly have an accent. So thank you for sharing their experience with that kind of ethnocentrism