School in the Philippines: Culturally Biased Tests (weird stuff)

I'm pursuing a 2^nd degree here in the Philippines and this semester I was required to retake Sociology for some reason...I guess because the course name was a little different. I took “Intro to Sociology” back in the day and the required class for my degree here is called “General Sociology with Family”. It's pretty much “same shit/same smell” in my opinion, but they let me slide on several other classes, so I just bit the bullet and rolled with it. For me it's really a sociology/anthropology class and has some value because I'm re-learning the same thing from a different perspective.

Furious Styles knew about that culturally biased testing shit back in the day!

So we had prelims this week and I did okay, but the Sociology test was actually the most difficult; not because the material was complex, but because the questions were presented from a completely different viewpoint. A whole bunch of shit was weird to me, but I'm going to throw out this example.

Anomic and Egoistic suicide: Now the simple definitions are as follows:

Anomic Suicide: Something happens in you life where you end up with a shitload of freedom and you basically don't know how to act, because the rules all relax over night. The example in the book is a dude that hits the lottery and can just do what he wants.

Egoistic suicide: You feel cut off, alone, isolated and detached from the community,  so you kill yourself.

The question on the test was something like this: (majorly paraphrasing)....Your parents kick the bucket and you're all alone to make your own way in the world, so you off yourself. What kind of suicide is this according to Durkheim?

I'm thinking...”Shit..if Mom and Dad kicked the bucket I'd feel alone and disconnected...it's obviously egoistical, right?

Not so fast Skippy/ Rickey!

RICKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is a matching test and Egoistic suicide isn't and option...and Anomic Suicide is the only match in the category, so I verified with the teacher that my test paper was correct. So...yep...strange to me or not, that's how they roll here. Loss of parents would represent sudden freedom, as opposed to feelings of isolation because they are gone. Makes sense?

"They punched the clock on ol' Rick!"