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It’s all relative, I think. While the advertising industry would shame all women who aren’t 6’2″ with breasts that make them look like they will topple over, I find women whose breasts are proportionate to their bodies the most attractive. I can’t imagine what importance breast size could have, except for men with pathetic egos who need some sort of trophy girlfriend, and while there are plenty of those men, I think there are many more normal folks who don’t view a woman’s breasts as separate from the rest of her body.
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Name : Carter, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : I believe in God, Age : 29, City : Chicago, State : IL, Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,Interesting stuff… I have to say I really like names like Aisha, Shawanda, because they have a nice ring to them, with soft consonants. I think people should name their kids whatever they want, the only names that ever make me cringe are names like ‘Princess’ which seem to imply that the person is some sort of royalty – but no race or ethnic group has a monopoly on that!
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Name : Carter, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : I believe in God, Age : 29, City : Chicago, State : IL, Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,Well, I have a standing offer to my friends that I’ll buy any one of them a beer if they can find me an actual Irish joke that does not eith take place in a bar or involve drinking in some way – There seems to be two camps on the alcohol thing, the one that looks at it as a form of social gathering, the ‘lubricant’ if you will, and the one that suggests that alcoholic populations have gotten that way due to depression caused by oppression. You will often hear proof of how bad the American Indian situation is by the escalating rates of alcoholism found on the reservations. And of course, it was whites who brought alcohol to them in the first place. I think many northern climate people tend to drink more, it might be just because you’re indoors more, or the lack of sunlight causes depression. Why the Irish have gotten such a reputation when other groups who drink as well such as the French & Germans is probably due to some sort of original smearing of their character by the established gentry in America, but that’s just my guess.
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Name : Carter, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : I believe in God, Age : 29, City : Chicago, State : IL, Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,Most people in Chicago pull up and back in – I think it’s just easier when the parking is tight. I can’t say I’ve ever noticed any particular difference among either racial or gender differences.
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Name : Carter, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : I believe in God, Age : 29, City : Chicago, State : IL, Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,My recollection of the Ebonics debate was that it was sparked by some Oakland school board members who were trying to get extra ESL funding, they argued that teachers who aren’t familiar with ebonics were not able to understand the children and they wanted this money to train them (this is a recollection from 1996, I believe, sorry if I misrepresent anything). I believe the uproar started when one board member was quoted as saying ‘basically we need more money for our schools and this is the only way we think we can get it’. So I think there is confusion and misunderstand on all sides of this. Now for all I know this person could have been quoted out of context, and this might not have been the viewpoint of the larger group. However, I personally believe this was a lousy idea, as ESL funding was really meant to help immigrant children who didn’t speak English when they arrived in America. To say Ebonics is a variant on English is one thing, but to say it’s an entirely separate language I think really insults black kids, because that implies that black kids can’t speak English, which is ridiculous. They are just as smart and capable as any kids. All kids I’ve ever seen speak using some kind of slang, but you probably can make a point that to succeed in today’s world you do seriously handicap yourself if you aren’t able to write and communicate with people different than you. But honestly, as long as everyone knows what you’re saying I don’t see what the big deal is. Diversity is good for all of us, the majority of the words that we call ‘English’ have simply been adopted from other languages, European, Asian, African and Arabic. The larger issue I saw in all of this was that you have a school so drastically underfunded that it felt its only solution was a need to resort to this kind of scheme – this highlights a huge inequity in educational opportunities faced by urban kids in poorer areas. I think the media loves to play the race-baiting angle because it stirs people up, but this issue definitely came up due to economic circumstances, not cultural ones.
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Name : Carter, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : I believe in God, Age : 29, City : Chicago, State : IL, Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,My experience was almost the complete oppposite, delivering pizzas in Urban -Champaign, Illinois right after college. I found that the black customers tended to tip pretty well, across the board – students, residents, folks living in poorer areas, etc. They were generally much more friendly and less demeaning in their attitudes as well, whereas other people (not any group in particular) would talk about you like you weren’t even there. Now college students on the other hand were some of the cheapest people I’ve ever seen, and the myth that they’re all broke is just that – quite a few of them would do things like write a check for $5.75 and not even round it up to tip you a quarter!
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Name : Carter, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : I believe in God, Age : 29, City : Chicago, State : IL, Country : United States, Occupation : Administrative Assistant, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class,
