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I’m not Jewish or Muslim, so will bow to the superior knowledge of anyone who is, but I understand that it has nothing to do with fear of disease, but that pork is ritually unclean, and so not touching pork is a matter of religious observance, sticking to the rules laid out in the Torah or Quran about what is and is not acceptable. I think that the reason that pigs (and therefore pork) is seen as unlean is that pigs are omnivores (so you don’t know what other ritually unclean product you might be eating secondhand) and that they are cloven-footed animals but don’t chew the cud. It isn’t particularly logical, but then since when did logic have anything to do with religion?
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Name : Margo, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Christian, Age : 27, City : Manchester, State : NA, Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : lawyer, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,I don’t thonk that Female Genital Mutialtion is mandatory in the sense of being required by law, anywhere, but there is a strong cultural pressure. Many emigrants from countries where FGM is common continue to follow the practice where they live. In the UK, FGM is illegal and considered as assault/child abuse, but there is evidence of people taking their daughters ‘home’ for this practice to be carried out. I would guess the same is true in most European countries and in the US. I am not a Muslim but to the best of my knoweldge this is not something mandated or sanctioned by Islam, although it is the cultural norm among many populations that are predominantly Muslim.
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Name : Margo, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Christian, Age : 27, City : Manchester, State : NA, Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : lawyer, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,Are you sure it’s not just something you (as a man) notice more in women? I think this is something people of both sexes do. So far as the ankle is concerned, pivoting or making circular motions relaxes the ankle and leg – eases the muscles, etc – it’s a comfort thing!
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Name : Margo, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Christian, Age : 27, City : Manchester, State : NA, Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : lawyer, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,Why shouldn’t she? If she feels comfortable I don’t see that it is anybody else’s business. Also, if you start to say eople should not waer certain types of clothes where will it end? What if the top was showing her cleavage? or what if she were wearing low cut jeans showing her panty line or buttocks? I would be interested to turn the question around and ask why you feel she ought not to waer a top like that?
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Name : Margo, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Christian, Age : 27, City : Manchester, State : NA, Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : lawyer, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,Nor did most Muslims cause 9/11, or Asians, or Christians. I guess many people in the United States either don’t know or don’t care about the different ethnic origins or religious affiliations of people of Asian or Middle Eastern appearance. I understand that many Muslims, even those who recognize that the terrorists on 9/11 were acting in a way they see as being against Islam, have suffered similar discrimination. It’s ignorance and sloppy thinking
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Name : Margo, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Christian, Age : 27, City : Manchester, State : NA, Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : lawyer, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,First, a degree is not an automatic passport to a great job – there are unemployed gratuates – and some are laden with debt from their years at university and can’t afford to wait and hope the perfect job will come along. This is especially true if you happen to have family or other ties restricting your ability to move where the jobs are, or if you picked an area of study that doesn’t lead directly to an obvious job. Second, not everyone sees their job as the most important thing in their life – it may be a payoff between a high-pay, high-stress ‘graduate’ job and a less-well-paid or well-regarded job with greater job satisfaction and more free time to devote to other interests. I’m a graduate, and my job does need a degree, but I have chosen to work in an area that a lot of people regard as ‘second-best.’ People find it hard to understand that for me, the satisfaction I get from the job and the fact that I have time to follow my other interests, more than makes up for the fact that I earn less than half of what some of my classmates do, who chose to go in to the corporate side of the business. I don’t have to be in the office from 8 a.m. to midnight, I have weekends off, and I never take work home.
In short, status and money aren’t everything. Finally, why not look at yourself the other way around – you may not have a degree, but you can do your job just as well as someone who has one – good for you.
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Name : Margo, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Christian, Age : 27, City : Manchester, State : NA, Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : lawyer, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,I would have no problem with it. I would be much more interested in whether the person was a good teacher. I feel that kids are unlikely to be that bothered about a teacher’s sexual orientation, and unless it affects your ability to teach, it’s none of my business, any more than my sexual preferences are any of your business. Also, as teaching (especially for younger children) seems to be a predominantly female profession, I would be happy for my kids to have a positive male role model.
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Name : Margo, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Christian, Age : 27, City : Manchester, State : NA, Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : lawyer, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,I have to correct you here – if the judge is wearing a wig and gown, we lawyers will as well. (except a solicitor – advocate will not have a wig) In fact, if I were to appear in front of a judge without a gown, in a case where we were required to be robed, the judge would be ‘unable’ to hear me, as I would not be properly dressed. I have seen this happen to an opponent of mine who failed to wear a robe. If a solicitor instructs a barrister for a court hearing then only the barrister (who is actually addressing the court) needs to wear a wig & gown. The solicitor does not becase they are not formally addressing the court. The only time I have seen a Juge to be robed and the lawyers not was where the judge was hearing both criminal cases (which require him to be robed) and family cases (which don’t) on the same day and did not want to bother taking his robes on and off between cases. In the Magistrates court robes are not worn, nor are they in family cases.
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Name : Margo, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Christian, Age : 27, City : Manchester, State : NA, Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : lawyer, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,What makes you think homosexuality is a choice? Given the appalling prejudice and discrimination that homosexuals have suffered and continue to experience, why do you imagine anyone would make that choice? Many homosexuals have been brainwashed into thinking that there is something wrong with them, and suffer greatly before coming to terms with the fact that that is just the way they are, and no amount of wishing is going to change that. And (in light of what you say about the bible) do you seriously think that people 2000 to 4000 years ago, without the benefit of modern scientific or medical knowledge were in a position to say what is or is not a genetic trait? I was speaking to a neurosurgeon recently who was telling me about recent research which suggest that there may be a link between the level of stress experienced by a pregnant woman (whihc affects the hormones relesed into the womb) which can affect the unborn child. In early pregnancy this can affect he gender the child is born, leter in the baby’s development it can cause the brain chemistry of a male to resemble that of a female (there are slight differences, apparently) It is far to early to make any comnnection with sexuality but if the mother’s hormonal balance and brain chemistry can affect the gender of her child it is surely likely that gentic and environmental factors can also affect the much more fluid issue of a persons sexuality. In the final analysis, what on earth business is it of yours how anyone else expresses their sexuality?
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Name : Margo, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Christian, Age : 27, City : Manchester, State : NA, Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : lawyer, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,I would suggest that there is often a physical attraction, not least because members of the armed services are required to be fit – also a high proportion are young – so you have lots of fit, healthy young men. Our biology drives us to look for someone likely to have good genes, so looking fit and healthy is a good sign. Having said that, I personally am not attracted to men in the forces as such, as I have reservations about people who choose such a potentially violent career.
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Name : Margo, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Christian, Age : 27, City : Manchester, State : NA, Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : lawyer, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,I’ve never been to NZ, tho’ it’s quite high on my wish-list my perceptions of it are as somewhere with incredible natural beauty,unusual wild-life, nice weather, very empty, and in many ways more culterally diverse (or maybe just more comfortable with its diversity) than Australia. I also imagine that NZ is probably closer in cultural/social terms to the UK than to America. Having said that, I’m ashamed to say in response to your question ‘what do you know of our history, etc’ the answer is ‘very little’ – History – Moari’s followed by English/Scottish settlers -system of law etc originally based on british system – significant if largely ignoreed contribution in both world wars, economy – strong – wealthy nation – lots of sheep & tourists – geography – 2 island and a lot of variaition in climate…It’s not much to know about a major country, is it? I’d be interested to know how you percieve yourselves – closer to England, Australia or the USA, or wholly different from us all?
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Name : Margo, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Christian, Age : 27, City : Manchester, State : NA, Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : lawyer, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,Teen magazines (have you looked at the problem pages recently?); TV & other media; novels ; sex education; friends; Trial & Error – everyone has to try it for the first time at some stage. I think you mostly pick it up as you go along.
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Name : Margo, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Christian, Age : 27, City : Manchester, State : NA, Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : lawyer, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,What sort of things do you want to do? Most colleges have masses of clubs and societies – join a few that look interesting. It also helps to know when you arrive, feeling you don’t know anyone to hang with, that there are a load of other people who are feeling just the same – but one of you has to pluck up courage to speak first! My advice would be to join three or four clubs you like the sound of, take opportunities to be friendly with people in your seminars/classes and respond to any friendly overtures made by other people – who knows, they could be potential friends. Finally, bear in mind that as well as successes, you’re likely to have failures – there will be some people who don’t want to be friendly or include you – don’t let it get to you.
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Name : Margo, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Christian, Age : 27, City : Manchester, State : NA, Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : lawyer, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,Yes. We do differentiate. It’s a bit like asking what is the difference between America and Illinois, albeit on a smaller scale. Great Britain is made up of England, Scotland and Wales. (and the United Kingdom is made up of Great Britan & Northern Ireland) I’m English (mostly) so I’m not particularly bothered whether you describe me as British, English or ‘from the UK’, but if you describe a Scottish or Welsh person as being English you may cause offence, particularly as there has been, historically, a degree of cultural imperialism by the English, of the Welsh in particular.(The teaching by Welsh schools in Welsh has only been permitted comparativly recently) I don’t think there’s a racial element – I think it’s more to do with the historical position. Both Scotland & Wales now have some degree of autonomy (Scottish parliament & Welsh Assembly)and I think most scottish and welsh people wouild regard themselves as having a distinct national identity separate from Britain as a whole.
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Name : Margo, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Christian, Age : 27, City : Manchester, State : NA, Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : lawyer, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,I would be interested to know whether you have visited Britain, and if so, where you went? I have recently moved from Manchester (big, diverse population) to Somerset (rural, still largely agricultural, predominantly white) I don’t feel that the general culture is anything like as racist or generally discriminates to the same extent as in the US. British children are taught about other cultures (we learned about Diwali, Eid, Yom Kippur and other religious festivals as well as Christian festivals, even in a school which had no non-white pupils at all. Who said ‘all these people are stupid?’ and in what context? Yes, we have the National Front – you have the Ku Klux Klan – neither is typical of the nation as a whole.
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Name : Margo, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Christian, Age : 27, City : Manchester, State : NA, Country : United Kingdom, Occupation : lawyer, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,
