[Amy]

I don’t think the need to control is specifically ‘white.’ I think it has more to do with money. Those that have it have power and control and want to keep it. Those who don’t have money, power and control are the ones kept under control.’ Because of simple numbers, white people are still the majority in this country, so more of them have more of the money and subsequent power and control. If you look at other countries with a more homogenous population, there are still issues such as this present, but rather than being as obvious as white/black, the problem of control becomes more one of class structure. Take Great Britain: a pretty white place, but still there has been plenty of oppression based on the ‘haves’ and the ‘have-nots.’ I don’t think anyone would say that a man born in London is more white that a man born in Belfast, but for the last century one has been trying to tell the other that he is better.

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Name : Amy, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Disability : mental illness (bipolar disorder), Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Wiccan, Age : 27, City : Tampa, State : FL, Country : United States, Occupation : mom, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class, 

[Amy]

I can’t speak for black people, but I can speak as a person who loves grape, orange and lemon-lime soda. I have never liked cola, and have always ordered something fruity. When I moved to Florida, that was the first time some one told me I was drinking ‘black’ soda. I had no idea. I think this is a Southern US sterotype, as when I lived in the Northeast, I had never heard it. I would advise you to really look around and see if more black people are really ordering fruity sodas, or if your preconcecption is coloring (so to speak) your views.

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Name : Amy, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Disability : mental illness (bipolar disorder), Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Wiccan, Age : 27, City : Tampa, State : FL, Country : United States, Occupation : mom, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class, 

[Amy]

Having a mental illness is not the same as being part of a ‘culture.’ How you would treat a Pakistani woman with a mental illness might be very different from the way I would like to be treated. Having a mental illness means you are sick, just like having diabetes or cancer. The most important thing to remember is that we are human beings, even when we are acting strange or behaving in a manner that is threatening or intimidating. I have yet to meet someone with a mental illness who enjoys his or her symptoms. What they are going through is harder on them than on anyone around them.

Treat your patients with empathy and ask them questions about what they would like. If they can’t respond, ask their family. Treat them like people. If they can’t communicate with you, it is still good to let them know what is going on around them. Tell them they are having blood drawn and why. Tell them they will be having a shower today. Just treat them with the respect you would want if you were suddenly placed into a foreign land where no one understood you, and you didn’t know how to follow the rules of behaivor expected of you, and you were mostly just scared and feeling very alone.

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Name : Amy, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Disability : mental illness (bipolar disorder), Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Wiccan, Age : 27, City : Tampa, State : FL, Country : United States, Occupation : mom, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class, 

[Amy]

Okay, here it is. Yes. People of different races smell different. Sometimes. I used to live with 7 other girls of differing backrounds. Myself and one other girl were white, blond and had similarly textured hair. Therefore, we used Dep gel and Aquanet and that is what we smelled like. One girl was Latina and one girl was Italian. They both had dark, wavy, slightly coarser hair. They used similar hair care products, and therefore smelled the same. One girl was Irish, and had curly red hair. She just smelled like shampoo, because if she put anything in her hair, well, can anyone say Carrottop? One girl was black, and she used to smell like ‘grease’ and burnt hair because she fried her hair every morning with her curling iron to make it straight and used the type of old fashioned ‘grease’ product her grandma had used. Then, we had a beauty class one day. Us silky haired blondes stopped teasing our hair up in the air, so we didn’t need the Aquanet or Dep gel anymore; the girls with dark wavy hair got some tips on conditioning and the black girl was introduced to Infusium. After that, we all pretty much smelled like the Irish girl who had never used any stinky products to begin with. My point is, the way we smell has more to do with culture and less to do with race. I don’t stink like Aquanet any more, but I used to. That was the culture I was in then. Someone from India might smell like the spices in the food they eat, because those smells do come out in persperation. But if they were to start eating steak and Big Macs, shortly they would smell like an American. And when I eat ‘ethnic’ food for a few days in a row, I smell like whatever I’ve been eating, too. It is all relative.

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Name : Amy, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Disability : mental illness (bipolar disorder), Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Wiccan, Age : 27, City : Tampa, State : FL, Country : United States, Occupation : mom, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class, 

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