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- Yes, it is that bad. I taught for a little more than two years, and you couldn't pay me enough to go back. Regardless of the fact that I have doubled my salary since leaving teaching, pay had nothing to do with why I left. The kids have no respect and their parents don't allow them to take responsibility for their actions. After my experience, I am all for a resurgence of a 1950s-style education system with desks in rows and hands folded ... the kind of education system where if a child says he got in trouble in school, his parents' first reaction is to ground him rather than run to school and yell at the teacher for doing his or her job. Parents are so gung-ho on 'kids' rights' that they've lost sight of 'kids' responsibilities.'
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Name : Anonymous, Gender : F, Age : 26, City : Southern, State : NJ Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,As far as tattoos on the face, unless you are a tattoo artist, I can see where that might be looked at as a little strange, but regarding tattoos on the rest of the body, this is something that been done for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years. You make assumptions about people's motivations to get them ('to stand out') without really having any idea of what their motivation is. There are a million reasons someone might get a tattoo: to memorialize someone, to express something or simply because they like them. I am 27 and have what would be considered by most a lot of tattoos, especially for a female. I have a college degree, am working on my master's and am a research scientist. I have never had problems finding a job, and I wear a business suit every day to work.I don't take drugs, I'm not a criminal, I'm not a deviant ... I just happen to like tattoos. To me, they are a way of accentuating beauty. If you don't like them, don't get them.. But I don't see what it is that YOU need to 'tolerate' because of a piercing or tattoo that someone else has. Why should you care?
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Name : Anonymous, Gender : F, Age : 26, City : Southern, State : NJ Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,Maybe I didn't explain myself thoroughly. I'm not trying to infer that a real man can't be gay or non-military. My point is that if you are living in the United States and enjoy its freedoms, a real man (or woman) should be willing to fight to protect those freedoms. Eric was insinuating that in the event of a draft, he could lie and say he was gay to get out of it. In my opinion, if you are not willing to answer the call for your country, you should be living somewhere else. In addition, the 'slaughter of innocents to get one man' is NOT the case here. This isn't a campaign against bin Laden only, it's a campaign against terrorism, which has a much larger reach than just one man. I couldn't care less if a soldier is gay, straight, white, black or whatever. If they are willing to fight for the freedom that I enjoy living in the United States, they should be thanked regardless.User Detail :
Name : Anonymous, Gender : F, Age : 26, City : Southern, State : NJ Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,Tell that to the family members of more than 6,000 dead and missing people lying in the rubble of what was the World Trade Center. If you think we don't need 'even a fraction of the defense system we have,' I can only assume none of YOUR family members are there.User Detail :
Name : Anonymous, Gender : F, Age : 26, City : Southern, State : NJ Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,I believe much of it comes from the United State's backing of Israel. With the formation of Israel, Muslim people lost some of their 'Holy Land,' and this is, obviously, very sacred to them. I believe they think the United States is anti-Muslim because it supports Israel as a nation.User Detail :
Name : Anonymous, Gender : F, Age : 26, City : Southern, State : NJ Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,If that's your attitude about serving your country in time of war, you don't deserve to be here in the first place. I work for the Department of Defense, and although I'm not fighting on the 'front lines,' I'm risking my life every day I walk into my building, especially now when these kinds of buildings are nothing more than targets to terrorists. Thank God we have plenty of MEN willing to fight for us.User Detail :
Name : Anonymous, Gender : F, Age : 26, City : Southern, State : NJ Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,The reason we shouldn't draft females is simple... you can't draft entire families or there will be no one to take care of the home front. Who will raise the children if we start drafting women? Women who want to join the military and who do not have families of their own are obviously free to join, but to draft them would be detrimental to the country. During war times ( and I mean, REAL war... ) women are the ones working in industry maintaining the country, keeping up production, etc. I'm not trying to insinuate by all of this that women should just stay home and raise children (I certainly don't...) but the fact is that during times of war, someone has to remain in the country and keep things going.User Detail :
Name : Anonymous, Gender : F, Age : 26, City : Southern, State : NJ Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,Granted, he was trained by the US gov't in order to help the Afghan rebels stop the attempted take-over from Russia, there is NOTHING 'home grown' (U.S. grown, that is) about Bin Laden. He's a militant extremist... not the product of the U.S.User Detail :
Name : Anonymous, Gender : F, Age : 26, City : Southern, State : NJ Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,When people do these supposedly scientific studies, I wonder if they really take all factors into consideration. If you'd like to look, overall, at all IQ scores, I would assume blacks would do poorer than whites. But I don't believe the reasons are racial or genetic. There is a large percentage of poverty in black families. Single mothers are out working trying to feed their children and often don't have the time or resources to sit and read books and teach ABCs. I wonder if two middle-class children of similar family structure, one white, one black, took IQ tests, if there would be any difference. I bet if you looked at all the scores from poor, working-class families as a whole, they would have lower scores - not because of race, but because of the lack of time parents can spend teaching their children, going over homework with them, etc.User Detail :
Name : Anonymous, Gender : F, Age : 26, City : Southern, State : NJ Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,I once heard a story from a friend of mine who went to Greece. She was walking through the street market and wanted to buy something. The man gave her a price and she accepted and paid. She didn't understand why everyone was laughing at her until a native of Greece told her you NEVER agree to the initial offer. Haggling is just part of life in other countries, but because Americans are so used to paying retail it seems quite strange to us.User Detail :
Name : Anonymous, Gender : F, Age : 26, City : Southern, State : NJ Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,A lot of oppressed people, or people who have trouble finding work, look for a way to make a quick buck. A very easy way to do this is dog fighting, and pit bulls are the dog of choice for this. People train their dogs to be ferocious because a pit bull who wins a dog fight can bring in thousands of dollars.User Detail :
Name : Anonymous, Gender : F, Age : 26, City : Southern, State : NJ Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,First, let me say I am SHOCKED that you saw elitist attitudes in Washington, D.C. - especially considering the fact that the mayor of D.C. did time in prison on drug charges, and D.C. was, in the not too distant past, the murder capital of the country! Have you been in downtown D.C. past dark? Elitist?As for the rest of the East Coast, I think it depends on where you are. You may run into that kind of thinking in a very wealthy East Coast neighborhood, just as you might in posh Beverly Hills. I don't think it's the coast that makes the difference, but rather the socioeconomic standing.
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Name : Anonymous, Gender : F, Age : 26, City : Southern, State : NJ Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,First of all, Jews do not create names like 'Goldstein'... These are last names that people are born with and therefore have no control over. The whole point of this website is for people to be able to ask questions such as these so that they may understand... it isn't 'close minded' to wonder why a certain ethnicity seems to follow a certain custom. What's close minded is being offended by mere curiosity. Some black folks do name there children what most would consider unique names because they are African names, but as a teacher in a predominately black high school, most of my female students would try to find the most outlandish names they could for their children because, as THEY put it, it's 'ghetto' to have a child with a name like that. There are plenty of black people who name their children Bob, John, Jennifer, etc. Whatever the reasons people have for naming their children, it is still a very valid question to ask.User Detail :
Name : Anonymous, Gender : F, Age : 26, City : Southern, State : NJ Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,HG, I totally agree with you. I know that as a female (and believe me, I don't even try to pretend that being a white female compares to being a black man in the US...) growing up, I could never understand the whole 'women's lib' thing. Why were all these women complaining? Life isn't so bad is it? Then as I got older and entered college and the work force, I began to see a lot of 'injustices' going on and I started to see that all that 'complaining' was about. It's very similar with black america today. I think people see the injustices and give up, in a way. It's much better to say 'They won't LET me...' than it is to give something a good honest effort. Many blacks seem to resign to a life of crime because they feel it's their only way of making a good income. The solution for me has been to try my hardest to not be a 'complainer', to not give up, and to just go about my business doing the best that I can do so that hopefully people will eventually change their minds about what women can or should be doing. Black Americans really need to push themselves to do even more than the average white American through education and acting responsibly, raising good families, etc. Hopefully this will eventually change the views people have of Black people in this country. I know that in the meantime, things seem incredibly frustrating and hopeless but look at the HUGE strides there have been in going towards equality. If black people 'give up' now and continue filling up the prisons of this country, they will stop the progress and make things worse for their children. I believe that 'by any means necessary' still holds true, but in the present time, those means have to be education and responsibility.User Detail :
Name : Anonymous, Gender : F, Age : 26, City : Southern, State : NJ Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,I will definitely agree that blacks have had a major influence in singing and dancing, but when you say that white people who do these 'black things' (which I don't believe are necessarily 'black things') are being rewarded more than black people, I just don't agree. I think it has more to do with who's raking in the bucks for the record companies. The fact is that kids (who tend to follow the trends) have a huge say in the popularity of performance artists. Whatever is the current trend basically decides their opinions. The whole teen thing is just the trend now. Keep in mind, though, that there was a time when Michael Jackson (back when he was black, that is) was on every teenage girl's wall. And Prince. And New Edition. And Menudo! I don't think it's a constant of white rewards, but rather a change in trends. Bubblegum, pop-singing, dancing white kids are the thing right now. This, too, shall pass.User Detail :
Name : Anonymous, Gender : F, Age : 26, City : Southern, State : NJ Country : United States, Social class : Middle class,
