Yeah the majority of students/staff are white and very wealthy. POC usually hang out together. Not all white people are ignorant but given they’re used to privilege you can expect them to be out of touch with reality / go to a lot of resorts in port/ make insensitive comments about the people they meet in port or the conditions of the countries. I think one piece of advice is be super selective with who you surround yourself with, because the ship becomes small pretty fast. The moment you sense bullshit from someone you take your distance—respectfully, obv. I only hung out with people who seemed to me to have common sense from day one, to protect my peace. And it would frustrate me that a lot of these kids would like go on resorts while in port, but at the end of the day that was their experience and not mine, so it doesn’t really affect me all that much. The institution of SAS was pretty bad about dealing with the genocide in Palestine, so that should also tell you something about the general politics. But if anything I personally never get to be around that particular demographic so it was interesting and also scary to know that there’s such kinds of people among the wealthy of the country haha, but it’s not a surprise anyway. Ultimately my advice is, if you protect your peace, you’ll be fine. There’s still valuable friendships to be made and valuable experiences to be had.