[Amber31545]

After I saw where Monique was writing from, I had to respond. I have a friend who attended college in East Lansing for three years before transferring to another college in Mt. Pleasant. She noticed that students in Mt. Pleasant generally would shower every morning as a matter of hygiene and then again later in the day after working out or before a big event. Some students would put off showering until later in the day if they knew they were going to work out, etc. Or they might oversleep. This became a topic of conversation one day, as she noted that the students in East Lansing would just show up to class grungy if they didn’t shower in the morning and not say a word, but the students in Mt. Pleasant would apologize profusely to all around them in class for not having showered. As for myself, I noticed many of the same showering patterns in college, except my campus was a five-minute walk from end to end, so working up a sweat on the way to or from class was pretty impossible.

One other thought: some African-American friends have mentioned to me an aversion to showering more than once a day because of worries of drying out hair or skin. Caucasian hair usually doesn’t dry out from the practice, and if our skin gets dry we only have to worry about our own discomfort – not about being judged harshly for looking ashy.

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Name : Amber31545, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Christian, Age : 27, City : Washington, State : DC, Country : United States, Occupation : College administration, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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