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Let me add my voice to those who are warning against The Bell Curve. It is very difficult to write a test with no cultural/socioeconomic bias. One famous example of such was a question that told how many rooms and how many bedrooms a house had and then asked how many people could sleep in it. An intelligence test I have given asks young kids to identify a speedometer. This is patently unfair to children whose parents do not have a car.
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Name : Andrea K., Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 40, City : Farmington, State : ME, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher/musician, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,We usually watch the NBC six o’clock news, and there is a reporter called Ken Kashiwahara (I think that’s how you spell it) who is on frequently. I’m quite sure I’ve seen Asian men in print ads, but they tend to be younger. One reason that might explain this is that many of the older-generation Asian-American men are relatively short. There is still, I think, a preference for pictures showing the woman shorter than the man, and many fashion models are taller than the average woman to start with.
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Name : Andrea K., Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 40, City : Farmington, State : ME, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher/musician, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,I, too, am surprised that this happened in Cambridge, which I’ve always found to welcome diversity. I live in Farmington, Maine, and I don’t think you’d find any trouble here. It has often occurred to me that it seems as if Caucasian male/Asian female marriages are barely noticed around here anymore. I can think of families in which there are Caucasian men and wives from Guam, the Phillipines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, China, Korea and Japan, just off the top of my head, and this in a town of about 6,000!
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Name : Andrea K., Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 40, City : Farmington, State : ME, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher/musician, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,I think there may also be a class thing going on (although I cannot say so for sure, as I live in a state that has very few African-Americans). In Paul Fussell’s book Class, he remarks about the desire of class-nervous men to be called Mister, and brings up the example of Ol’ Blue Eyes, who was always introduced with ‘… Ladies and Gentlemen, Mister Frank Sinatra.’
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Name : Andrea K., Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 40, City : Farmington, State : ME, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher/musician, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,In my view, since God is the Creator and Sustainer of the universe (and any others there may be), God cannot, by definition, be dead, or everything would stop. God had no beginning; neither will God have an end.
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Name : Andrea K., Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 40, City : Farmington, State : ME, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher/musician, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,There are likely some differences between ethnic groups, but those who are better-educated do tend to have better vocabularies. Children in higher-class households are often asked their opinion more often. I believe the Kennedys were required to report about something that had happened in the news every night at dinner. Social scientists have watched mothers interacting with their young children and have noted quite a bit more describing going on with higher-class white women. I don’t think you can go by wealth as much as by class, although there are some newly wealthy people who think that, because they have money, they have more right to talk. There are also some upper-class groups (Boston Brahmins, for example) who are traditionally terse.
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Name : Andrea K., Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 40, City : Farmington, State : ME, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher/musician, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,I would imagine that many truth-speakers feel afraid when they don’t know how what they say will be taken by the listeners. Since we have a built-in ‘flight or fight’ system, adrenaline comes in when we feel apprehensive (whether we want it to or not).
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Name : Andrea K., Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 40, City : Farmington, State : ME, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher/musician, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,I do think that there may be a class thing going on. JonBenet Ramsey may have been born into money, but that does not mean she was born into an upper- class household. The fact that she participated in beauty pageants as a child is a good sign of this. I live in Maine, and there are lots of little girls living in ‘mobile homes’ or dirt-floored cabins who are going to have to correct people’s spelling of their names all their lives, or who will make their teachers’ heads shake in wonder at the first time they see them on a list. I honestly know a young woman named Avalanche; her brothers all have ‘normal’ names that start with ‘A’ and her father thought Avalanche sounded pretty.
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Name : Andrea K., Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 40, City : Farmington, State : ME, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher/musician, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,When John Kennedy was running for President, there were people who wondered very openly if a Catholic would be too influenced by the Vatican. Now there are people wondering openly if a Jew would be biased toward Israel. Of course, there are still many people in the United States who have never met a Jew and to whom they are a bit of a mystery.
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Name : Andrea K., Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 40, City : Farmington, State : ME, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher/musician, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,I’m a teacher and do musicals, and in both situations, I interact with plenty of kids who are not bad. I think one reason elderly people don’t have a good opinion of kids is that they never have much contact with them. When they do have contact with them, it is often in a situation in which the teenagers are being very rude and disrespectful, according to the rules by which the elders were brought up and by which they brought up their own children. For example, many young people seem, when at the movies, to forget they are not in their own living rooms. There is also the matter of dress; the punk, skinhead and Gothic looks can all be frightening to an older person. The grunge look often provokes amazement and wondering about why the kid’s mother couldn’t bring herself to hem those pants.
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Name : Andrea K., Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 40, City : Farmington, State : ME, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher/musician, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,‘Gaelic’ is a linguistic term used to describe the languages of Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. Usually the languages involved are called Irish Gaelic, Scots Gaelic and Manx. These belong to a larger group, the Celtic group of languages. This group also includes Welsh (from Wales), Cornish (from Cornwall) and Breton (from Brittany). So Wales is a Celtic country, but not really a Gaelic one.
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Name : Andrea K., Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Catholic, Age : 40, City : Farmington, State : ME, Country : United States, Occupation : teacher/musician, Education level : Over 4 Years of College,
