From what I've read (second hand), it is considered a perfectly polite question in the South to ask a new acquaintaince 'What church do you go to?' Just like up North, it is considered perfectly polite to ask, 'What do you do for work?' Good luck, it sounds awkward to say the least.
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Name : Laurie, Gender : Female, Age : 56, City : Boston, State : MA Country : United States, First of all, not all black women have long nails. Second, I believe it's for at least two other reasons: (1) The African heritage of valueing beauty, flair and visual presentation - unlike the WASP values, which value low-key under-presentation. (2) African Americans had to wear such junky clothes when they were enslaved or very poor that they value looking nicely dressed.
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Name : Laurie, Gender : Female, Age : 56, City : Boston, State : MA Country : United States, Yes, if they were raised to be racist. They may be able to tell the race of the person by listening to the person's voice - their accent, etc. If you are a sighted person, you may notice that you can often tell a person's race over the phone.
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Name : Laurie, Gender : Female, Age : 56, City : Boston, State : MA Country : United States, Some blind people listen for the traffic, and when they hear that no cars are coming, they cross.
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Name : Laurie, Gender : Female, Age : 56, City : Boston, State : MA Country : United States, Since every person is different, you can't generalize. I suggest you ask the person in question why they do it; or ask your friends if they do it, and if so, why.
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Name : Laurie, Gender : Female, Age : 56, City : Boston, State : MA Country : United States, Wow, these are good questions. Unfortunately, your questions cover way too much territory. Some students of class divide U.S. classes into over 20 classes. Either make your question way more specific or read some books about class.
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Name : Laurie, Gender : Female, Age : 56, City : Boston, State : MA Country : United States, Yo, John! You need to rewrite this as a question if you want an answer!
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Name : Laurie, Gender : Female, Age : 56, City : Boston, State : MA Country : United States, It sure is a complicated balancing act, but where I work in Cambridge, Massachusetts, my office follows the lead of Cambridge City Hall, which has decided on the following: give people the religious holiday or part of the day off (with pay,) providing the following three requirements are met: (1) their particular religion bans working on that day, or (2) their religion requires the person to be at services that day, and (3) the person is an 'observant participant.' (i.e., you can't take the day off with pay just because your great-grandparents were religious and observed the holiday but you don't at all.) And if required religious services are just one hour, you are expected to show up for work after services. Also, everyone of all religions gets off (with pay) the big Christian holidays (Christmas, etc.)
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Name : Laurie, Gender : Female, Age : 56, City : Boston, State : MA Country : United States, Thanks for your sensitivity to different cultural/religious food practices. So, here's a few pointers and then an answer: First, 'Islam' is the religion. 'Muslim' is the person. To say a person is 'Islamic' is incorrect, just like saying a person is 'Christianic' is incorrect. So stick with the word 'Muslim' for the person. Second, observant Muslims are allowed to eat beef, but they are not allowed to eat pork. Observant Jews are also allowed to eat beef, but not pork. Observant Hindus, on the other hand, are allowed to eat pork, but not beef. Confusing, huh?! Thirdly, both observant Jews and Muslims must have the beef (or other meat) prepared in a particular way (killed with compassion, etc.) in order for it to be acceptable to eat. The Jews use the word 'kosher' (you may be familiar with that word) for acceptable food; the Muslims use the word 'halal.' And finally, the key word here is 'observant.' If the person is observant, I doubt that they would even enter a restaurant that did not say 'Kosher' or 'Halal' in large letters on the windows. So if a Muslim is in your restaurant, and the word 'Halal' is not on your window, I would assume he/she knows full well what you are serving, and is comfortable eating it. If you like, you might have a note in your menu stating that the food is not halal or kosher, but I don't think it would be appropriate to 'warn' someone from a tradition different from yours that your food is not acceptable to them.
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Name : Laurie, Gender : Female, Age : 56, City : Boston, State : MA Country : United States, They come from Brazil, which is a country in South America. They speak Portuguese rather than Spanish because when Spain and Portugal were 'dividing up' South America several centuries ago, Portugal got the section that became Brazil. The native people, Africans brought as slaves, and European colonists intermarried, or didn't; and that makes Brazilians.
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Name : Laurie, Gender : Female, Age : 56, City : Boston, State : MA Country : United States, According to Jewish tradition, God is not a limited, corporeal being. Therefore 'He' cannot be a pedophile, or a homosexual. According to Jewish tradition, God is loving, therefore He wouldn't be a pedophile, and He doesn't have hormones, therefore He wouldn't have sexual desire for males or for females. If you believe that the Bible was not God-inspired, then maybe the people who wrote it were pedophiles, or homosexuals. Or maybe scared of sex. Or many other possibilities.
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Name : Laurie, Gender : Female, Age : 56, City : Boston, State : MA Country : United States, I'm really sorry to hear that some hearing people are treating you with contempt. How aggravating. I don't know the details of how they act when they act aggravated with you or like they want nothing to do with you. But I do know that talking louder, slower or with wider mouth movements is not an act of contempt. It is actually an attempt to connect with you, to be communicating with you. Since some hearing people have not been around deaf people before, they are doing the best that they can think of, without having been instructed, even though on the receiving end, it is a pain. If you are feeling up to it, you can educate the hearing person on how you would prefer to be communicated with.
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Name : Laurie, Gender : Female, Age : 56, City : Boston, State : MA Country : United States, I think it depends on which circles you travel in. In some circles, yes. In other circles, women are much more interested in a man who is kind, or responsible, or intelligent.
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Name : Laurie, Gender : Female, Age : 56, City : Boston, State : MA Country : United States, They listen to the traffic. When there's no traffic coming from the dangerous directions, cross. A sighted person can see a blind person at the crosswalk, and ask, 'Can I help you?' The blind person could say, 'Yes, may I take your arm and you can lead me across.' Note: When assisting a blind person, DO NOT grab their elbow and push them forward. Rather, offer YOUR arm, and let them hold onto it, and walk slightly ahead of them, with you leading.
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Name : Laurie, Gender : Female, Age : 56, City : Boston, State : MA Country : United States, I have read that Japanese people (who are very polite in Japan), think it is OK to be rude when they are visitors in other countries, because it 'doesn't really count.' I don't know if all Japanese tourists are like this. Also, citizens from different countries each have their own traditions on how to act when they are tourists.
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Name : Laurie, Gender : Female, Age : 56, City : Boston, State : MA Country : United States, 
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