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- I think a lot of British people can recognise the southern drawl, but apart from that all North Amercian (including Canadian) accents sound the same. I have met a handful of Canadians so I might be able to detect the difference, but I'm not sure and it sounds very subtle. To my ears Presidents Bush and Clinton do not have very marked southern accents, but Carter did, do Americans agree? There are all sorts of questions about how people perceive accents, most British people can't distinguish a southern and northern Irish accent, but when I happened to spend a couple of days in Belfast on my way back from spending a couple of weeks in the Galway area I found the difference in accents very marked.
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Name : Campbell McGregor, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Disability : asperger's syndrome, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 43, City : Glasgow, State : NA Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : school crossing patroller, Education level : 4 Years of College,I have heard it said by a Jew on television: 'This is actually a Christian mistranslation. A correct translation would be 'Thou shalt not commit murder', there is no connection between the 2 verbs in Hebrew'.User Detail :
Name : Campbell McGregor, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Disability : asperger's syndrome, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 43, City : Glasgow, State : NA Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : school crossing patroller, Education level : 4 Years of College,This is a legend. I am going mainly by Garrett Mattingley's classic account 'The Defeat of the Spanish Armada'. While it is true that several Spanish warships were wrecked on the Irish coast while trying to get back to Spain, he concludes that at most only a handful of the sailors would have found wives and settled there, so they cannot have influenced the appearance of the people. Many sailors were drowned in the shipwrecks, many were massacred by the English who controlled Ireland at that time, since they did not want to take the risk of holding a large number of prisoners of war in the politically unstable situation there, but some did escape back to Spain, mainly by way of Scotland which was still independent then. There is a tendency to ascribe anything a bit odd from round the coast of the British Isles to the Spanish Armada.User Detail :
Name : Campbell McGregor, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Disability : asperger's syndrome, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 43, City : Glasgow, State : NA Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : school crossing patroller, Education level : 4 Years of College,This is the first I have heard of this. Oddly, this is a persistent but untrue legend about Jews, i.e. that they make love through a hole in a sheet, but this is the first time I have heard it about Russians. We can only speculate why it became transferred: Is it because for many years the Russians were the 'other' in American culture, in the same way that the Jews were in Western culture for many years - although you might have expected it to crop up during the Cold War rather than a few years later. Can we expect to hear it about the Muslims soon?User Detail :
Name : Campbell McGregor, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Disability : asperger's syndrome, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 43, City : Glasgow, State : NA Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : school crossing patroller, Education level : 4 Years of College,There are a number of theories about this one. Contrary to one colorful legend, it is not because the defenders of the Alamo sang 'Green Grow the Rushes O' just before the Mexicans attacked. The explanation generally accepted by experts on language is that it derives from 'griego,' the Spanish word for 'Greek,' ultimately extended to other European nationalities.User Detail :
Name : Campbell McGregor, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Disability : asperger's syndrome, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 43, City : Glasgow, State : NA Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : school crossing patroller, Education level : 4 Years of College,It is a gross oversimplification of some complex problems to say that 'if you are properly medicated then you can lead a normal life'. If Ms. Flint finds that with medication she can still hold down a normal job, then all credit to her, but for a lot of people it may not be as simple as that. I am at present on incapacity benefit. I have had problems with stress and depression in the past. I am not on medication (except for asthma). I am legitimately doing part-time work within the limits allowed while claiming incapacity benefit, and I do have hopes of getting myself back into normal employment, but this is proving a lot easier said than done, although I am getting a lot of help from an employment agency.User Detail :
Name : Campbell McGregor, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Disability : asperger's syndrome, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 43, City : Glasgow, State : NA Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : school crossing patroller, Education level : 4 Years of College,Of course they do! Mount Everest was first climbed by Hillary AND Tenzing, a Sherpa. It has since been climbed by other Sherpas and by Chinese expeditions.User Detail :
Name : Campbell McGregor, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Disability : asperger's syndrome, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 43, City : Glasgow, State : NA Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : school crossing patroller, Education level : 4 Years of College,I suspect that the answer is that it is not quite as simple as that. We could have quite a lengthy discussion about what we understand by the concept of 'race'. The implication in your question is that e.g. Mexicans who look slightly darker-skinned than most Mexicans ought to identify themselves as 'black' rather than 'hispanic' is that they have more in common with US blacks than most Mexicans, which they might not accept. You use terms like 'Diaspora' which whatever their merits are culturally constructs, not simple facts of biology.User Detail :
Name : Campbell McGregor, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Disability : asperger's syndrome, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 43, City : Glasgow, State : NA Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : school crossing patroller, Education level : 4 Years of College,To quote Isaac Asimov in Foundation: 'When did prejudice ever follow any laws but its own?'User Detail :
Name : Campbell McGregor, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Disability : asperger's syndrome, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 43, City : Glasgow, State : NA Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : school crossing patroller, Education level : 4 Years of College,I have not, but I don't think this behavior is unusual. I once had a discussion with a woman who used to slash her forearms. I think in the past during periods of stress I could sometimes carry out extremely mild forms of self-harm, e.g. driving my fingernails into my forehead so that it left marks. I think you need help. You should contact Childline by telephoning 0800 1111 (it's a free call) or 0800 400222 (2 p.m. - 9 p.m. only) or write to them at Freepost 1111, London N1 (you don't need a stamp) or speak to your doctor, or a teacher.User Detail :
Name : Campbell McGregor, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Disability : asperger's syndrome, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 43, City : Glasgow, State : NA Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : school crossing patroller, Education level : 4 Years of College,'When in Rome do as the Romans do.' 'Immigrants should assimilate to the predominant culture.' In a British context, this sounds like a white racist talking. Any black person who voiced these views in Britain would be widely condemned by their own community, they might be accused of being a 'coconut': brown on the outside, white on the inside. I doubt if these views would go down well with some communities in the United States e.g. the Hispanics. This issue does raise some important differences between the black experience in Britain and the United States. The logic of your own position is that you should start learning Navajo or Sioux or Cherokee. I agree that teachers should be sensitive about what they call their pupils, but that was not quite the issue here.User Detail :
Name : Campbell McGregor, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Disability : asperger's syndrome, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 43, City : Glasgow, State : NA Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : school crossing patroller, Education level : 4 Years of College,I seem to remember reading somewhere that opinion polls have shown that most black people in the United States prefer this term to African American. There is the problem of what term we use to describe all people ultimately of sub-Saharan racial origin, including the black populations in the Caribbean and parts of Europe. 'African' is problematic because many would assume this excludes these communities but includes North African Arabs and white South Africans.User Detail :
Name : Campbell McGregor, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Disability : asperger's syndrome, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 43, City : Glasgow, State : NA Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : school crossing patroller, Education level : 4 Years of College,Give me the name and address of any research institution that is offering thousands of dollars to anyone who can produce a shred of evidence for evolution. This is one of the best offers I have had in years!User Detail :
Name : Campbell McGregor, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Disability : asperger's syndrome, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 43, City : Glasgow, State : NA Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : school crossing patroller, Education level : 4 Years of College,The subject of what a Scotsman wears under his kilt has become the subject of a good deal of ethnic mythologising, by both Scots and non-Scots, which I will now attempt to deal with as straightforwardly as possible.In theory, the answer is nothing; in fact, the term 'true Scot' is used to describe a Scotsman who wears nothing under his kilt. In one Scottish regiment, there used to be a mirror on the floor of the regimental office, and any soldier suspected of not upholding the regimental tradition was ordered to step onto the mirror.
However, I noticed an example of the problems involved when I saw a group of dancers-cum-buskers in a Glasgow street, and you could see that at least one had nothing under his kilt. I was not particularly bothered about this, but it could embarrass some people. The only time I have worn a kilt in my adult life myself was during a theatrical production, I wore underpants, and as far as I am aware, all other men in it did, too, although this may partly have been because we were making costume changes in a busy dressing room.
Most Scotsmen wear the kilt only occasionally, and when they do I suspect that a significant number wear underpants, either because of embarrassment or the risk of accidents, but exactly what proportion I really cannot say. By the way, the British royal family only make themselves look a bit silly in the eyes of most Scots by wearing kilts when they visit Balmoral in Scotland, and even inspire comments like, 'I wonder what an Englishman wears under his kilt?'
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Name : Campbell McGregor, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Disability : asperger's syndrome, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 43, City : Glasgow, State : NA Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : school crossing patroller, Education level : 4 Years of College,It is my understanding that, although polygamy has not been practiced for several centuries among Ashkenazi Jews, until fairly recently a significant number of Sefardi Jews did have two wives. This could have been a reflection of differing Christian and Muslim influences on the two communities. Most Sefardi Jews now find themselves in countries where polygamy is banned by secular law (e.g. Israel, Turkey, United States), but there is still a significant Jewish community in Morocco; does polygamy survive there?User Detail :
Name : Campbell McGregor, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Disability : asperger's syndrome, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Atheist, Age : 43, City : Glasgow, State : NA Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : school crossing patroller, Education level : 4 Years of College,
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