Rashida Jones says Harvard was an adjustment
Rashida Jones wasn’t raised here, but the daughter of Quincy Jones and Peggy Lipton has plenty of Boston cred: She went to Harvard; was a regular on “The Office,’’ whose cast includes Bay Staters Steve Carell, John Krasinski, and B.J. Novak; and now she’s on “Parks and Recreation,’’ whose star is Burlington’s own Amy Poehler. In town Tuesday to promote her new movie, “Celeste and Jesse Forever,’’ Jones talked a little bit about her time at Harvard — and not completely favorably. “I had a hard time when I first got here — it’s so different from the West Coast; it’s weird that it’s not a different country because it kind of should be. I loved it; it just took some time to adjust,’’ she said. “Socially, it was very different. There’s this whole kind of legacy history thing that I wasn’t really down with. . . . I’m not ultra sensitive to sexism. Institutions are inherently exclusive. That’s not necessarily great but, guess what, our country was built on that and so were a lot of countries. So the best you can do is try to integrate, get what you need from it.’’
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