Ignorance is bliss, yeah right.

My uncle told me about a recent trip of his to China, particularly one incident. He and his friend went into a nice Chinese restaurant for dinner. They ordered a few dishes, but since the menu was in Chinese, they had to rely on the waiter to help them select. They finally selected dishes that were cheap and delicious,well that's what the waiter told them. The dinner went on fine and when finally, they asked another waiter as to what meat was used in one of the dishes. He told them that it was pigs intestines. They wished they had not asked and known, but learn't one lesson, never trust the Chinese waiters, no matter how cheap or tasty the dish is. These are times when you know and feel that ignorance is indeed bliss. But its not always so. I have been recently admitted into one really good univ in the uk. When some of my neighbors came over, i told them this. The univ being one of the top and that too in the uk, I expected some favorable reaction from the lot. Instead, they tell me that nowadays who goes to the uk to study and all, and say "Son, now the trend/fashion is to study in mumbai where some of the best colleges in the world are". My jaw dropped and i couldn't even blurt out the "What"!! that was forming in my throat.It would be too much to expect them to know the name of the univ and all, but to compare the univ with a tonne of low grade univs in mumbai, kind of put me off. That was when they told me that their son was studying in mumbai, thats when I realized that they were ardent followers of the fact that ignorance is indeed bliss. They didn't know much about uk or even MBA, but they did know was the univ their son was studying in was quite good and thats all they wanted to know and refused to hear my defense on why the uk univ is really good. I gave up and realized one thing, that i wished they hadn't told me about the so called trend now. Ignorance is bliss.