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Popping gum is accomplished by blowing a bubble inside your mouth and popping it with your teeth. Often, when children notice that this can be done, they think it’s cool and try to do it (much like whistling or making noise with your armpits). Some people get good at it and impress their playground friends. After a while, some take it as a habit and continue it into their adulthood. I haven’t seen anyone do this since the early ’90s, but I’ll bet some are still doing it. As for your question about why it occurs more with blacks than with whites, I think in some ways it is due to the thought that popping your gum implies a brash attitude and the stereotype that black women have brash attitudes. Mostly, however, it probably has to do with your habituation to your own culture, i.e. you don’t notice things that occur in your own culture as much as you notice it in people from a different culture.

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Name : Amanda31499, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Baptist, Age : 19, City : Boston, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class, 

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