I don't think labels are the cause of these 'issues' you speak of. What's in a name, after all? It does seem a little divisive to categorize people so, but some people would simply rather not integrate into a mainstream society that would have them abandon some of the values, traditions, and customs that they grew up with. When mainstream society becomes more accepting of differences, I think African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and so on will, metaphorically speaking, be more willing to place 'American' in front of their own designations.
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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, (Paraphrased from a Discover Magazine article about a long-term study) When a woman is pregnant with a child, she shares her blood supply with him/her. Late in pregnancy or afterwards (this time frame varies), her body creates antibodies against her child's blood cells. Sometimes this can cause anemia in the child, sometimes nothing happens, and sometimes homosexuality (in males, at any rate) results. These antibodies can lead to a lower birth weight and affect the part of the 3rd interstitial nucleus of the anterior hypothalamus, or INAH-3, which controls sexual orientation. The INAH-3 in homosexual men resembles those of straight women. Homosexual men tend to have at least one older brother, which I think could mean that different antibodies are produced in response to different sexes. While this study only accounted for homosexual males, there might be some correlation between its findings and homosexuality in females. It does lend support to the belief that homosexuality is not something that's determined by one's upbringing.
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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, And why do you say that? I see that you're a mother. If there's a racial basis to your statement, I hope your children don't learn from you.
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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, Half of what you posted could've sufficed; no need to get into your contempt for your relatives. ^ ^
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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, Ignorance. That's the only real answer as to why people create and believe stereotypes against entire demographics. I don't think I've ever met a real Gypsy, but in my experience, they do seem to get a lot of bad press, for lack of a better term. They also seem to get little to no recognition here. It was only last year that I learned, to my horror because I had used the term before, that 'gypped' was derived from 'Gypsy' because of the stereotype that Gypsies were thieves.
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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 not entirely sure which one I fall into, either, though with my mother's low-income job and my father's unemployment, I'd say that I'm lower middle class. We do, however, have our own two-story house and car, so we might be middle class, if one were to go by our property.
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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 attribute it to personal preference and probably the (unrelated) people they grew up or live around. I've seen even amounts of Asian women dating Asian men and Asian women dating men of other races. Personally, I tend to find Mediterranean-looking guys and Japanese guys attractive.
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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 Chinese, but I find the term offensive because of its roots as a derogatory term used against Japanese people. Most people nowadays, including some of my friends, are unaware of the origins of the word and so use it freely as a shortened form of 'Japan' or 'Japanese'.
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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, If it's about resemblance to you or your daughter, there will be some similarities in features, if not in coloration. Furthermore, studies have shown that people of mixed races tend to have more symmetrical faces and therefore are better-looking on average, and it's not difficult to find evidence of that (see Halle Berry, Keanu Reeves).
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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, 
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