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He did work hard, he did strive to become educated, he did make sacrifices, and he did earn his place as he said, but the point is that he was fortunate to have been born with qualities that benefit him in this society and to have had parents that encouraged him (I don’t think the success of his business was all luck). If he was born with disabilities affecting his intelligence and to parents who were discouraging, he could’ve still gotten to where he is now through hard work and perseverance, but he would’ve had a harder time and he probably would’ve had to sacrifice more. I don’t believe he got where he was because of pure luck, but I believe his circumstances were more conducive to his success than others. I don’t believe that bad circumstances should excuse one from putting effort into improving their lives, but I think it’s an important thing to consider when trying to understand someone.
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Name : Betty, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : Asian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 17, City : Medford, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,Because they’re on so low a rung on the economic ladder, they want to find ways to compensate for that. One such way, probably the easiest and most popular, is to boost their social standing. Probably the most popular and easiest way to look better among their peers is to literally look better; wealthier, more stylish. Part of this explanation for their spending habits is that things like nice clothes instantly gratify their desire to feel like they have wealth. Even though something like saving up for a house benefits them much more in the long run, it’s less appealing because it’s more diffcult.
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Name : Betty, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : Asian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 17, City : Medford, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,I blame such differences in reactions on upbringing. I was eating sesame candy in class one day, turned around to talk to a friend and the white girl sitting behind me said, ‘OK, something smells. Someone should stop breathing or something,’ obviously referring to me.
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Name : Betty, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : Asian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 17, City : Medford, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,I’ve noticed this as well, but being a teenager, I can’t really find an explanation. When I was about 14, I experienced urges to do things like what you mentioned, though I’ve grown more conscientious since. I think it’s attributable to the fact that teenagers are starting to develop the ability to see the flaws in the authority figures in their lives, flaws that make it easier for them to undermine them. This newfound ‘knowledge’ lets some of them believe that they’re more free to do as they please. Boredom, which they seem to encounter a lot for various reasons, gives them the opportunity to be destructive. Sorry you have to deal with kids like them.
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Name : Betty, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : Asian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 17, City : Medford, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,It’s all a matter of preference, I say. I don’t really see cultural differences as grounds for problems in the relationship later on and I believe that you can raise children in a multi-cultural household without any problems. Scientifically speaking, children of mixed races tend to be more attractive-looking, so it can be inferred that dating outside of one’s own race or ethnicity would be ‘right’.
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Name : Betty, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : Asian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 17, City : Medford, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,Because of my experiences, I am a little slanted against Christianity on the whole, or at least in its ‘mainstream’ form. I don’t believe that what I’ve been through justifies my stance, but I don’t appreciate having attempts made to convert me from atheism, I disagree with many of the conclusions some Christians have drawn from the Bible, and I don’t agree with how some individuals use, for example, something stated in the Bible to further their views but refuse to acknowledge another part of the text that goes against them. I do, however, like some parts of the religion, such as what Jesus had to say on violence, revenge, and treatment of one another.
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Name : Betty, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : Asian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 17, City : Medford, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,I’ve yet to witness this as something exclusive to Asian women. I drag my feet only when I’m exhausted.
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Name : Betty, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : Asian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 17, City : Medford, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,By saying that being homosexual, having this sexual preference, is a sin, I think you’re saying that it’s a consciously made choice. There is scientific evidence that contradicts this belief. Homosexuality is not something that comes of one’s volition, one’s upbringing, or one’s genome. It does, however, stem from biological factors that are difficult, if not impossible, to control. According to a study that was written about in Discover Magazine, when a woman is pregnant, she shares a blood supply with her child. Her body will eventually develop antibodies against the child’s blood cells, and this will happen either late in pregnancy or after birth. These antibodies stay in the mother’s body and can cause anemia in subsequent children (if they attack blood cells in the baby) or homosexuality in either the first or the next child, but they usually have no discernable effect. These antibodies seem to be able to cause homosexuality in male babies by affecting the 3rd interstitial nucleus of the anterior hypothalamus (INAH-3) in the brain, which appears to determine sexual orientation, changing it so that it resembles that of the average heterosexual female. It might be interesting to note that a lot of homosexual males were of low birth weight and have older brothers, which could mean that a woman’s body may produce different antibodies in response to the sex of the child she’s carrying. The study only directly accounts for homosexual males, but female homosexuality might stem from related causes.
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Name : Betty, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : Asian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 17, City : Medford, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,It’s prevalent in some African nations, not just predominantly Muslim ones. Some recent immigrants from those countries to the United States may wish to practice it, but I don’t know how many carry it out. It’s not a procedure that’s bound just to Islam nor is it mandated by law: it’s cultural, so members of a pro-circumcision community may place pressure on someone who’s resistant to it being performed on her. Some people believe that it promotes cleanliness and chastity, but I’m against it on the grounds that it’s unnecessary and very painful.
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Name : Betty, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : Asian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 17, City : Medford, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,It’s probably the easiest way to learn to tell. I can tell between Asian ethnicities mostly because I study people’s facial features. This trick works for me and is a bit hard to describe, but sometimes I imagine them wearing traditional hairstyles (like the Japanese momoware or the Chinese queue) to help me work out their ethnicity.
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Name : Betty, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : Asian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 17, City : Medford, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,As previous posters have answered your question, I can only suggest reading Inventing the AIDS Virus by Peter Duesberg. I don’t think that it’s a conspiracy against blacks by whites, though.
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Name : Betty, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : Asian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 17, City : Medford, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,I’d rather not have to hear or see such references for a number of reasons. First, to me, it represents a break-down in the division between religion and government. Second, such instances exclude minority religious groups and atheists. Third, such instances also seem to imply that mainstream Christianity somehow deserves to be better represented and more widely promoted. On a related note, it is under these same principles, for lack of a better word, that some religious legislators and pundits feel that it’s justified to make or promote certain legal measures based on their idea of Christianity. Having ‘God’ in the Pledge and on money isn’t as important as invoking him and his word in laws.
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Name : Betty, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : Asian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 17, City : Medford, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,Then again, I am taking Spanish in school. 🙂 Anyway, I think most Spanish-speakers move here to the United States for more socioeconomic opportunities, not because they really want to. If they did it entirely out of their own volition and not because of financial strains, then I’d say that you could fault them for not learning English. Places like Cuba and Mexico, where the majority of Hispanic immigrants to the US come from, don’t have the best of school systems and limited educational resources for the majority of their citizens. Furthermore, though this ‘taking over’ may be troublesome for many adults, it could be a boon for younger generations, as bilingualism and multilingualism have been shown to be conducive to learning and other cognitive skills.
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Name : Betty, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : Asian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 17, City : Medford, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,I’m atheist and the only problem that I see with the majority of pornography is that it seems to lower some men’s opinions of women, who are frequently tarred with epithets like ‘whore’ and put in submissive positions in such productions. I won’t say that I think it’s degrading to all women, however, because I think that some of them enjoy that line of work. What I think is more important is the effect it has on how men see women. Used in moderation, without allowing it to lower one’s opinions of women, and under the right circumstances, I don’t think pornography is as evil as some people might see it.
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Name : Betty, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : Asian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 17, City : Medford, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,Names like ‘Caucasian’ and ‘Asian’ come from the proper names of places. ‘Black’ and ‘white’ aren’t derived from proper names; they come from adjectives. It’s not rooted in racism at all.
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Name : Betty, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Bisexual, Race : Asian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 17, City : Medford, State : MA, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Education level : Less than High School Diploma, Social class : Lower middle class,
